Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt

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Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt (born February 25, 1892 in Kassel , † April 9, 1961 in Niederlehme ) was a German engineer and head of the design office of the Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft formerly L. Schwartzkopff .

Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt first worked at Henschel & Sohn and switched to L. Schwartzkopff in 1916 . In 1936 he became a senior engineer.

He played a key role in the design of the class 41 and class 84 steam locomotives . For the latter, he developed the Schwartzkopff-Eckhardt steering frame named after him to improve the cornering ability of steam locomotives.

He also published several books on the building and construction of steam locomotives .

Works

  • The construction of the steam locomotive and its calculation , Verlag Technik 1952, Reprint: Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71348-2
  • Locomotive customer. H. 5. The chassis of the steam locomotives , Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1957
  • Introduction to the theory of the steam locomotive for practitioners to teach themselves , Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1952
  • Designing steam locomotives , Siemens, 1948
  • The chassis of the steam locomotives , Transpress, Berlin 1960
personal data
SURNAME Eckhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, chief designer of the Berliner Maschinenbau
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1961
Place of death Lower back