Fritz Huber (designer)

Fritz Huber's birthplace

Lanz Bulldog

Fritz Huber (born March 8, 1881 in Wasserburg , † April 14, 1942 in Mannheim ) was a German designer and is considered the "father of the bulldog " .

Life

Huber comes from an old family of technicians from Wasserburg in Upper Bavaria . In Munich he first attended the industrial school , then he began studying at the technical university there , which he successfully completed in 1903. He worked in France and Switzerland . After his return to Germany, he got a job at the Grade company in Magdeburg , where he devoted himself to the construction of high-quality two - stroke engines . He also built the first glow-head motors at the Climax works in Vienna and improved their running properties with adjustable injection nozzles and improved mass balancing. Then he got a job on September 20, 1916 with Heinrich Lanz in Mannheim . He designed, among other gasoline-powered tractors for the German army in the First World War . From around 1918 he began with the construction and from 1921 with the construction of the first single-cylinder hot-head engine as a stationary engine. It was the engine for what would later become the Bulldog, the first German tug in block construction and at the same time as a crude oil tug . Due to the effects of the First World War, this tug concept was not tested. It was not until 1920 that the development and construction of the bulldog (which got the name because of its external resemblance to a bulldog) continued.

In 1942 Dr.-Ing. Huber had gallbladder disease. The chief engineer Lentz became his successor at LANZ .

literature

• Gustav Goldbeck:  Huber, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 693 ( digitized version ).
• Hans-Erhard Lessing: Mannheim pioneers . Wellhöfer-Verlag, Mannheim 2007

Web links

• Excerpt from the dissertation (with biography) of Fritz Huber "Vibrations of heavy vehicle engines" (PDF; 286 kB)