Friedrich von Martini
Friedrich von Martini (born March 22, 1833 in Herkulesbad , Banat , † January 29, 1897 in Frauenfeld , Canton Thurgau ) was an Austrian - Swiss engineer and designer .
Life
Friedrich von Martini was born in 1833 as the son of a doctor from a noble Austrian family in the Banat . He began a technical course in Vienna in 1850 and studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1854 to 1857 . In 1857 he worked in the mechanical engineering institute in Karlsruhe, then until 1861 in the design office of the Sulzer brothers in Winterthur . In 1859 he did his military service as a royal-imperial lieutenant in Austria's campaign against Italy.
Martini was employed by the Frauenfeld mechanical engineering institute in 1861. In 1863 he became a partner and the company was renamed Martini & Tanner. In 1864 von Martini married the doctor's daughter Eleonore Keller.
In 1870 von Martini began building water and internal combustion engines , which were the basis for his sons' future Martini automobile factory .
The company's name was changed to F. Martini & Co. in 1879 . At the Swiss National Exhibition of 1883 he presented his double folding machine for paper, which he had developed in 1876. This gave rise to the bookbinding machine factory in Felben-Wellhausen , which existed at this location until 2014. At that time the company had around 300 workers. Von Martini applied for 17 patents, including a. a breech-loading -Gewehrverschluss (1868) and a gripper embroidery machine (1883).
From 1879 to 1895 he was a citizen's council of the Frauenfeld community , from 1880 to 1888 a member of the supervisory committee of the cantonal school and from 1886 to 1895 a member of the board of the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn .
He achieved commercial success with his standardized screw range and embroidery machines. Martini became internationally known with his rifles ( Martini-Henry-Gewehr and Martini-Stutzer). The name Martini lives on in the Muller Martini Group. It got its name in 1972 after Martini Buchbindereimaschinenfabrik AG had been taken over by Grapha Maschinenfabrik Hans Müller AG three years earlier.
literature
- Hans Brüderlin: Martini, Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Christoph Bischof: Friedrich von Martini (1833–1897), universal inventor and designer , in: Swiss pioneers in business and technology. Pictures of the lives of important personalities from industry, business and technology (company founders, inventors, engineers) 54, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-909059-00-7 and ISBN 978-3909059003
- Erhard Clavadetscher: Friedrich von Martini. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 38, 1963, pp. 11-18 ( e-periodica.ch )
Web links
- Bruno Meyer: Martini, Friedrich von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Drawing of the Martini patent from 1869
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregor Spuhler , Beat Gnädinger: Frauenfeld. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martini, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss engineer and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hercules bath , Banat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1897 |
| Place of death | Frauenfeld |