Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn

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Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (born November 11, 1853 in Lübeck , † 1927 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and inventor .

Life

Berlin headquarters of Westendarp & Pieper, Mauerstraße 86/88
1897 Daimler Victoria was the first gasoline-powered taxi with a taximeter

Wilhelm Bruhn was the son of Christian August Thomas Bruhn . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school at Easter 1874.

He is considered to be the inventor of the modern taximeter for passenger transport, after which the taxi is named. He initially worked at the engineering office Westendarp & Pieper Hamburg, which he took over after Georg Westendarp's death in 1902 and turned it into a factory for precision measuring equipment at Mauerstraße 86/88 in Berlin . He was the owner of numerous patents in Europe and the USA.

The first Bruhns taximeters were mounted on horse cabs as fare displays in the 1880s . They measured the revolutions of the wheel. Bruhn went to great lengths to prevent the driver from tampering with the counter and was successful with vehicle owners. In 1897, the Daimler Viktoria vehicle model developed by Wilhelm Maybach was equipped with the Bruhn taximeter. With increasing motorization, the international importance of the invention grew. Bruhn later developed speedometers and altimeters for aviation.

Due to the development of aviation, the Bruhn-Werke GmbH grew into a company with around 3000 employees and important locations in Eisfeld and Schalkau in Thuringia. They existed until 1945 and were then disbanded by the Soviet military administration and the facilities were dismantled.

Wilhelm Bruhn was married and had three children. His daughter Adele (Ada) Bruhn had been married to the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe since 1913 , his son Wolfgang Bruhn was an art historian in Berlin. The eldest daughter Hanna Margareta (Greta) was the mother of Walther Benser .

Inventions and products (selection)

  • Taximeter Bruhn, 1892 Berlin,
  • Control clock for vehicles and machines of all kinds, Bruhn's record
  • Recording device with full control "What was when" Original Bruhn

Some German-language patents:

  • Motorbike Patent No. AT000000101743B
  • Speedometer AT000000078841B
  • Display device for intermittently rotating shafts No.AT000000074300B
  • Registration apparatus for carts and the like. No. AT000000068600B
  • Taximeter No. AT000000068599B
  • Fare display with various time taxes No. AT000000059213B
  • Device for securing the position of engagement of the star wheel, which transmits the rotation of a wagon wheel to a * fare indicator, speedometer or the like. No. AT000000049843B
  • Safety device for the registration units on taximeters No. AT000000049538B
  • Speedometer No. CH000000084294A
  • Goods measuring device for looms No. DE000000457561A
  • Fare display no. DE000000421293A
  • Power consumption control device No. DE000000368098A

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized , University and State Library Düsseldorf , No. 719
  2. ↑ http://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=bibdat&docid=DE000000421293A
  3. ↑ Journal for the entire local and tram system, Vol. 8-10, Bergmann 1889, p. 158.
  4. ↑ The motor car. Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift, 25: 1922, p. 123.
  5. ↑ Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschifffahrt, Vol. 9: 1918, p. XXIII
  6. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Karl Hanske: OTB Original Taximeter Bruhn . 1st edition. Self-published, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059989-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Bruhn, Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruhn, Wilhelm; Bruhn, Wilhelm G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death Berlin