Georg Benoit

Georg August Christian Benoit (born March 3, 1868 in Wesel ; † October 20, 1953 in Baden-Baden ) was a German professor of mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe .

Life

Benoit comes from a Huguenot family . He studied mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg in Berlin . After several years of industrial activity and the post of director of the Prussian Higher Mechanical Engineering School in Hagen , he was appointed to the then newly created chair for lifting and transport machines in the mechanical engineering department at the TH Karlsruhe in 1901. In 1935 he retired. During his service in Karlsruhe he was appointed rector in 1911/12 and 1921/22.

Services

Benoit was particularly interested in cable cars and wire ropes as an element of conveyor technology. Under his direction, the world's first passenger cable car with circulating operation was designed and built, the Schauinslandbahn . This was built in the Black Forest on the Schauinsland and inaugurated in the summer of 1930.

Fonts

• with R. Woernle: The wire rope question - stress, service life, dimensioning of ropes, especially elevator ropes and their experimental research. Leipzig, Karlsruhe 1915.

Honors

• Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Gdansk
• Honorary citizen of the TH Karlsruhe , 1935

Web links

S. Friedrich Wagner, “Georg Benoit and the founding of the Institute for Conveyor Technology”, accessed on January 12, 2014

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ S. Friedrich Wagner: Relieving people of raw, mindless work , accessed on January 13, 2014
3. ↑ Federal Archives
4. ↑ http://stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de/index.php/De:Lexikon:bio-0097