Gottlieb Matthias Lippart

Gottlieb Matthias Lippart (born October 19, 1866 Würding near Ortenburg ; † March 26, 1930 in Munich ) was a German mechanical engineer and industrialist.

Life

After attending the Kreisrealschule, Gottlieb Matthias Lippart studied mechanical engineering at the Munich Polytechnic from 1885 , where he became a member of the Corps Cisaria . In 1889 he passed the state examination in mechanical engineering and took a first job in industry at Linde's Eismaschinen AG in Wiesbaden . In 1891 Anton Rieppel brought him to the Maschinenbau-AG Nürnberg as a designer for power machines and pumps. After a short time he took on management tasks. He was responsible for building a new factory in Gibitzenhof and planning its production program. He introduced the series production of internal combustion engines and power stations. On the merger with the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG to form the United Maschinenfabrik Augsburg and Maschinenbauges. Nürnberg AG (MAN) he was significantly involved.

After Krupp-Gruson took over gas engine construction in Magdeburg in the same year, he had the first large-scale engines built by Hans Richter (1868–1910) with an output of 500 to 1000 hp, making MAN a leader in the construction of large-scale engines in Germany. From 1903 he increased the maximum power to 1500 hp. In the double-acting tandem design as a single or twin tandem machine, it was able to achieve outputs of 4400 or 6000 hp. After he had also taken over the management of the engineering office for engine construction from Richter in 1905, he subsequently implemented the production of stationary, horizontal four- and two-stroke diesel engines in the Nuremberg plant. Since 1907, he has been the technical director of MAN, and in 1910 he started series production of an upright two-stroke marine diesel. In 1914 he manufactured a six-cylinder marine diesel engine with an output of 12,000 hp, which he further developed from 1919 as a double-acting two-stroke engine for merchant shipping.

In addition to building large-scale engines, from 1913 he expanded the Gibitzendorf plant to include wagon construction and the manufacture of transport machines for rail, iron and steel transport and port traffic. From 1909 he introduced a systematic quality control of the purchased raw materials, a limit gauge system for the quality control of individual parts and a cost calculation system based on unit costs, material consumption and wage accounting and accounting. His special concern was in-house training and further education. In 1912 he created a training curriculum for the company's own Nuremberg factory school that led to the journeyman's examination. In addition, an in-house special training program was created in 16 different professions.

Together with Otto Rieppel and Otto GANY (1871–1929) he negotiated that in 1920 Gutehoffnungshütte, as a financially strong raw materials group, would take over the majority of shares in MAN. In 1921 he sold the Duisburg plant to the Rheinische Stahlwerke . During the period of inflation and the global economic crisis, he led the group through rationalization measures, particularly at the Nuremberg plant, where he also started manufacturing commercial vehicles . In 1927 he moved from the executive board to the supervisory board.

Within the Association of German Engineers (VDI), he had been a member of the Technical School Committee from 1919, from 1923 to 1930 as its chairman. From 1919 to 1929 he was the curator of the VDI and chairman of the scientific advisory board. He was a member of the Presidium of the German Standards Committee and was chairman of the Bavarian Association of Industrialists from 1926 to 1933 .

His son was the mechanical engineer and manager Walter Lippart .

Awards

• Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the Technical University of Munich, 1914
• Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Munich, 1929
• Secret building council
• Honorary member of the VDI, 1929

Fonts

• The training of the apprentice in the workshop. In: Technik und Wirtschaft , 5th year, 1912, pp. 501–18
• The future needs of apprenticeship training in the mechanical industry. In: Technik und Wirtschaft , 11th year, 1918, pp. 340-350
• The Dawes Plan and the German Economy. In: Technik und Wirtschaft , Volume 18, 1925, pp. 49–54
• Engineer and economic thinking. In: Technik und Wirtschaft , Volume 19, 1926, pp. 1–10
• Personality and technical work. In: Technik und Wirtschaft , Volume 20, 1927, pp. 33–37
• Introductory report on future apprenticeship training in the mechanical industry. 1919
• For engineering education. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , 66th year, 1922, pp. 1109–1113
• About scientific work and research in the machine industry. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers , 68th year, 1924, pp. 89–93

literature

Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss:  Lippart, Gottlieb Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 649 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 246.