Friedrich Eichberg
Friedrich Eichberg (born September 10, 1875 in Vienna , † 1941 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer .
From 1892 to 1896 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna , and was then assistant to Adalbert von Waltenhofen until 1899 .
From 1900 to 1904 in Berlin, together with the engineer G. Winter (1869–1907), he developed the Winter-Eichberg motor , a commutator motor with armature excitation ( repulsion motor ). In 1904, it drove Austria's first alternating current railway, the Stubaitalbahn . He advocated electrification of the railway with 25 Hz.
Until 1912 he worked in the railway factory of Union Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (which merged with AEG on April 27, 1904). In 1912 he moved to the Linke Hofmann works in Breslau. From 1921 he was a board member of AEG and later on the company's supervisory board. In 1938, as a Jew, he managed to emigrate to the USA.
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| SURNAME | Eichberg, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian machine builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1941 |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor , Michigan |