Friedrich Eduard Hoffmann
Friedrich Eduard Hoffmann ; and Friedrich Hoffmann (* 18th October 1818 in Groningen , † 3. December 1900 in Berlin ) was a German architect and inventor .
Life
Friedrich Eduard Hoffmann was the son of a teacher. His brother was the architect Carl Wilhelm Hoffmann . He attended, among other things, the cathedral high school in Halberstadt and made an apprenticeship in construction. He received his two-year training as a royal master builder at the Royal General Building School in Berlin until 1843. He worked in railway construction and as an inventor dealt with a pneumatic mill, a hydraulic excavator and the brick kiln, where he developed the Hoffmann ring furnace . In 1858, together with Julius Albert Gottlieb Licht , the town planning officer of Danzig, he received the Prussian patent for five years for the “invention of a ring-shaped furnace for uninterrupted operation of all types of bricks and pottery, lime, plaster and the like”. In 1859 the first ring kiln was built in Scholwin (near Stettin ). The patent was extended twice for five years each. The patent was later revoked after it could be proven that the master bricklayer Arnold from Fürstenwalde had already invented the ring oven in 1839, but had not applied for a patent.
In 1865 Hoffmann founded the "German Association for the Manufacture of Bricks, Pottery, Lime and Cement" together with Albrecht Türrschmiedt , and from 1868 he published the German Töpfer and Ziegler Newspaper . He was the owner of several brick factories .
In 1867 Hoffmann received the Grand Prix for the invention of the ring furnace at the World Exhibition in Paris . Hoffmann's grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Mitte .
aftermath
Hoffmann ring furnaces are z. B. in Glindow (from 1868), Ziegeleipark Mildenberg , Wiesenburg- Reetz, Ziegelei Lage and Westeregeln (from 1894). Since 2000 there has been a Hoffmann exhibition in the Mildenberg Brickworks Park in Ringofen III, which was built in 1897. In Zehdenick -Mildenberg there is also the "Friedrich Hoffmann" Ziegeleipark Mildenberg e. V.
There is a Friedrich Hoffmann High School in Großräschen .
literature
- Lothar Schyia: "" Good fire! "- The triumphant advance of the ring kiln, Friedrich Eduard Hoffmann 1818–1900, Nestor of the brick industry". Anderweit Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931824-13-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Largest Virtual Cemetery in Europe", MPW Newsletter 4/2006, page 7 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 645 kB)
- ^ Hoffmann exhibition in the Mildenberg brickworks park
- ^ "Big day for Großräschen" (Lausitzer Rundschau, July 18, 2008)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Friedrich Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmann, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groeningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1900 |
| Place of death | Berlin |