Fritz Nallinger

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Friedrich "Fritz" Nallinger (born August 6, 1898 in Esslingen am Neckar , † June 4, 1984 in Stuttgart ) was a German engineer and automobile designer.

life and career

The son of building supervisor Friedrich Nallinger (May 23, 1863 - February 13, 1937) and Maria Nallinger (née Kötzle) grew up with automobiles, as his father was on May 1, 1904, alongside Wilhelm Maybach, as head of production at Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft entered. At the age of 13, he received his first patent for automobile headlights, which he sold to Carl Zeiss . In 1916 he graduated from high school and was then called up for military service, which he did as a pilot in the First World War . After studying at the TH Karlsruhe , at the age of 24 he took up a position as a design engineer at Benz & Cie.on. (His father, who had previously left the Daimler Board of Management, was also working there.) Fritz Nallinger also drove car races as a works driver and achieved z. B. at the automobile tournament in Baden Baden 1925 behind the legendary Rudolf Caracciola the second place.

In 1935 Nallinger became technical director. During the time of the National Socialist rule in Germany he belonged to the circle of military economic leaders and was responsible for aircraft engines. After he became head of the research and testing department as a designer in 1940, he became a member of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG and of the German Academy of Aviation Research in 1941 .

After the war he was requested by the French and developed flow engines for aircraft at Turbomeca in Pau .

In 1948 he returned to the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG as Head of Design, Development and Testing. On June 4, 1951, he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Karlsruhe . Through his work, he had a major impact on the new beginning and the regaining strength of Daimler-Benz after the Second World War and remained as a member of the Board of Management responsible for research and development until 1965. He is considered a pioneer of the platform strategy and has campaigned heavily for the passenger car diesel engine . Hans Scherenberg became his successor.

Honors

  • 1952: Dr.-Ing. EH of the TH Karlsruhe
  • 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1954: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
  • 1955: Professor title of the state of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1965: Rudolf Diesel Medal

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hobby (magazine) 2/1954: He builds the new Silver Arrows . Ehapa publishing house
  2. ^ Alfred Neubauer : Men-Women and Motors . 1st edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1970, p. 78.
  3. ↑ Angelika Ebbinghaus : The Daimler Benz Book - An armaments company in the Third Reich . Hamburg Foundation for the Social History of the 20th Century, 1st edition, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89190-950-0 , p. 296.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 428.
personal data
SURNAME Nallinger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nallinger, Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and automobile designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1984
Place of death Stuttgart