Friedrich Busse (Railway Director)
Friedrich Busse (born March 3, 1794 in Hattorf am Harz , † April 24, 1862 in Dresden ) was a German operations director and inventor.
Life
Apprenticeship and commercial activity
Friedrich Busse received his education at a village school, and because his parents were poor, there were only a few books available to him to further his education.
From 1810 he completed a commercial apprenticeship with his uncle Albert Dufour-Féronce , who was a partner in the Leipzig trading house Dufour, and stayed with the company in Leipzig until 1823 . From 1823 to late autumn 1837 he worked as a businessman in his uncle's branch in Braunschweig .
Worked for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company
From 1837 he got a job with the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie , of which his uncle was a co-founder, and stayed there until his retirement at the end of 1861. He became an authorized representative and operations director and built up an expedition system for the transport of people and freight during this time , which was introduced in 1837 and which was later adopted by all of Germany. He proceeded from the assumption that the transport system of the railroad must transport large masses of people, luggage and freight of all kinds, and that only the simplest devices should be used, so that only few personnel have to be employed. He described the system in great detail in his book The Expeditionary System on the Leipzig Dresden Railway . He received recognition for this from the special director of the Berlin-Stettiner railway company , Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden and the French engineer Louis Le Chatelier . He also formulated the service instructions and went through all relevant branches of service in order to get to know them from the bottom up .
In order to become independent of English imports, he founded the first railway car production in Germany in Leipzig and has been considered the father of the German railways ever since .
With great personal commitment and dedication, he solved the task of raising the necessary capital for the unknown mode of transport, keeping prices low and still being profitable. He was constantly striving to design improvements in order to promote economy and expediency and aroused the enthusiasm of his subordinates in such a way that they stood by him, despite unusual working hours. He also advocated that only Saxon coal could be used to operate the railway, against the prejudice that only English coal could be used for this.
Due to his self-taught technical knowledge, he was able to develop and implement various improvements to the technical devices of the trains and wagons, for example the construction of a Schuzz spring for the bow springs of the railway wagons, a lubricating device for railway wagons or the construction of anti-vibration wheels made of wood and Iron.
family
Friedrich Busse was married. His daughter, Anna Caecilie Busse (1830–1903), was married to the geographer Sophus Ruge .
Honors
- On January 27, 1892 it was decided to name a street in Leipzig's Neustadt district in his honor, Bussestrasse .
Fonts (selection)
The expedition on the Leipzig Dresden Railway . 1842.
literature
- Busse, Friedrich . In: Index entry: German biography .
- Friedrich Busse . In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations , Volume 2. Leipzig 1862. P. 11.
Web links
- Friedrich Busse . In: Digitization of the Polytechnic Journal.
- Friedrich Busse . In: Leipzig biography .
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Reden : The railways of Germany . tape 1 , p. 206. ES Mittler, 1843 ( google.de [accessed on May 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Bussestrasse. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busse, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German railway director and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hattorf am Harz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1862 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |