Friedrich Goetze

Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze (born November 27, 1856 in Gut Berg before Eilenburg ; † November 22, 1924 in Burscheid ) was a German machinist and locomotive driver who developed into an inventor .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze was born in the Gut Berg estate at the gates of the Saxon city of Eilenburg . His father was a miller , and later a flour dealer. Goetze came to Burscheid in the Rhineland by working in railway construction and married Mathilde Pfeiffer there in 1882, with whom he then lived in the Thielenmühle there.

Professional career

After training as a machine fitter, Goetze first worked in a locomotive factory in Erfurt . During the subsequent wandering period, he found employment as a machinist on a light rail locomotive building the Opladen - Lennep branch line for the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . He then found a job as a machine foreman at the mechanical carded yarn spinning mill Urbahn & Kotthaus in Burscheid. After his marriage he occupied himself with questions about seals for machine and engine construction in his free time . He developed metal-asbestos seals for stuffing boxes and piston rings on steam locomotives . On July 8, 1887, he founded his own company in Burscheid-Thielenmühle. The internationally known and recognized company Goetze AG developed from this small business . Its own foundry was built in 1895, and piston ring production began in 1912. At that time 200 people were employed. Goetze AG has been a subsidiary of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation since 1998 .

With his invention of the metal seal, Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze had a decisive influence on developments in machine and engine construction.

literature

Werner Wolters: Goetze, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 594 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Big party for the Goetze family , commemorating Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze on the 125th anniversary of the company he founded, Leverkusener Anzeiger from September 10, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) , 2nd edition, Volume 4 Görres – Hittorp, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , p. 17.
↑ Background: This is where the Goetzewerk was born. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , June 2, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2016 .
↑ Matthias Bauschen: A career was built on copper. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , December 21, 2001, accessed on July 5, 2016 .
↑ Hans Werner Hinrichs: Burscheid, history and stories, citizens write for citizens , publisher Stadt Burscheid, Baltin-Verlag, Gevelsberg 1980, p. 104 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Goetze, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goetze, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German machinist and engine driver
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gut Berg before Eilenburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1924
Place of death	Burscheid

[1] Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) , 2nd edition, Volume 4 Görres – Hittorp, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25034-7 , p. 17.

[2] Background: This is where the Goetzewerk was born. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , June 2, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2016 .

[3] Matthias Bauschen: A career was built on copper. Kölner Stadtanzeiger , December 21, 2001, accessed on July 5, 2016 .

[4] Hans Werner Hinrichs: Burscheid, history and stories, citizens write for citizens , publisher Stadt Burscheid, Baltin-Verlag, Gevelsberg 1980, p. 104 ff.