Georg Thomas (railway worker)

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Georg Thomas (* 1826 in Frankfurt / Main ; † March 22, 1883 in Mainz ) was a German engineer .

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After completing his studies, he worked for a long time as a designer in various large machine works and railway offices.

In 1856 he was appointed by the board of directors of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn as the first machine foreman to Mainz at the Centrale locomotive repair workshop of the Hessian Ludwigs-Eisenbahn and was in charge of the entire machine, wagon and workshop administration of the railway company. The Hessische Ludwigsbahn honored his lively technical activity and his outstanding commitment by appointing Thomas to its 'Specialdirection' in 1876. There he worked mainly on the development of new operating equipment until his death in 1883.

He became particularly well-known in his time for the development of the "Thomas' steam car" named after him . This vehicle was the connection of a fixed with a double-deck coaches connected steam locomotive . Thomas had the invention patented in 1881. In 1882 the 'Prämiirungscommission' of the Association of German Railway Administrations awarded him a prize for this steam powered rail car.

In addition to his professional activity, he was also chairman of the Frankfurt district association of German engineers .

literature

  • Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume III, No. 13. Berlin 1883, p. 118.
  • Deutsche Reichsbahn: A hundred years of German railways. Anniversary publication for the 100th anniversary of the German railways . Berlin, 1935, p. 245.
  • The double-decker Thomas steam railcar of the Hessian Ludwig Railway. Detailed description and operating results of the various test runs and the use on the Odenwaldbahn = supplement to the organ for the progress of the railway industry . 1881.
  • Peter Henkel: The steam railcar based on Thomas . In: The railway and its history = series of publications by the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2 (Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg). Darmstadt 1985, p. 69f.
  • Lutz Uebel and Wolfgang Richter (eds.): MAN - 150 years of rail vehicles from Nuremberg . Freiburg (EK-Verlag), 1994. <
  • Peter Zander: Double-decker steam railcars of the Thomas type . In: model railroader. Railway model railway magazine, 38th year. Berlin 1989, No. 2, pp. 17ff.

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  • Imperial Patent Office: Patent No. 12635: Georg Thomas in Mainz: Steam car for main and branch lines . Berlin 1881.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , March 31, 1883, p. 118, accessed on December 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt / Main
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1883
Place of death Mainz