Hans-Jürgen Precht

Mr. Fusion

Hans-Jürgen Precht (born April 30, 1933 in Hanover ) is a German industrial designer .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Precht studied industrial design and then worked for the Solingen household appliance manufacturer Krups . He designed u. a. Coffee machines, hand mixers or coffee grinders that are still sold today and holds a number of patents and utility models . The Coffina coffee grinder he developed in 1976 from the films Alien and Back to the Future became known as Mr. Fusion .

In 1979 Precht was a co-founder of the Psychosocial Support Association . In the book and later in the film his son Richard David Precht Lenin only came to Lüdenscheid , Hans-Jürgen Precht played a leading role as a father.

Awards (selection)

• 2008 - Rhenish Prize for Social Commitment

Web links

• Richard David Precht in conversation with his father Hans-Jürgen Precht on TV Today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patent research German Patent and Trademark Office
2. ↑ Jürgen precht krups design kaffeemühle coffina 1976 industrial design retro cult. De tweedehands-design-meubels, accessed on November 9, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Mr. Fusion. In: Futurepedia. Retrieved November 9, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Gerhard Panzer, Franziska Völz, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg : Relationship Analyzes. Fine arts in West Germany after 1945 . Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-02917-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ Jürgen Precht is 80 today. In: Solinger Tageblatt . September 22, 2014, accessed October 2, 2016 . 
6. ^ Rhenish honorary award for social commitment to Hans-Jürgen Precht. (No longer available online.) Landschaftsverband Rheinland , September 10, 2008, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.