Friedrich Ludwig (engineer)

Karl Friedrich Ludwig (born August 26, 1872 in Sonnefeld ; † March 3, 1945 there ) was a German engineer and industrialist .

Education and professional career

Friedrich Ludwig, son of a businessman, attended the Ernestinum in Coburg and then studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Karlsruhe fraternity Germania . He completed internships at the Louis Schäfer machine factory in Halle (Saale) and the Flocken machine factory in Coburg. Ludwig then became an engineer in the test field at Schuckert & Co. in Nuremberg and dealt with the commissioning of systems in Germany and abroad. He was able to visit France , England and the USA through study trips . Friedrich Ludwig later became director of Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin-Siemensstadt . He managed the electric motor plant in Siemensstadt and the metal foundry in Pasewalk .

Memberships

Ludwig was chairman of the working group of German production engineers in Berlin . He was a board member of the Reich Committee for Working Time Determination , on the Advisory Board of the Standards Committee of German Industry and at the German Occupational Safety Museum . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology in Dortmund .

Publications

• Accident prevention and increased production. 1926.
• Electrical aids for production control, 1928.
• Funding in companies with serial and mass production, 1928.
• Science and rational fabrication.

swell

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 304.