Harry Bock from Wülfingen

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Harry Aloysius Bock von Wülfingen (born April 15, 1829 in Burgstemmen , † September 19, 1881 in Hanover ) was a German mechanical engineer .

origin

Harry Bock von Wülfingen came from the Lower Saxon noble family Bock von Wülfingen ( Elze House ). He was the son of the royal Hanoverian major and landowner Friedrich Bock von Wülfingen (1785–1838), landlord on Elze with Wülfingen , Gronau and the Fideikommiss Burgstemmen, as well as Anna Elisabeth, née. Bock von Wülfingen (1796–1886) from the Burgstemmen house.

Life

After several years of instruction from a private tutor, Bock von Wülfingen attended grammar school in Hildesheim until 1848 . From 1848 to 1852 he studied at the Hanover Polytechnic , interrupted several times by practical work. He then began his professional career in Hanover at what was then Egestorff'schen Maschinenfabrik and was the first director of the company, which has since been renamed Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG (Hanomag), from 1869 to 1881.

As a student corporation , Bock von Wülfingen initially founded the “Polytechnic Singing Society Hanover” (PVG), which in 1854 made him an honorary member. On February 27, 1852, Bock and other PVG members founded the Corps Saxonia Hannover . It is said that a founder of two corporations is rare .

He constructed an "apparatus with continuous operation for the production and crushing of molasses lime " and had it registered with the German Patent Office on August 19, 1860 under the number 15245 .

family

Bock von Wülfingen lived in Linden near Hanover. He married Luise Garbe on February 11, 1862 in Hanover (born June 23, 1838 in Hanover; † June 17, 1915 there), the daughter of the distillery owner Heinrich Garbe and Luise Winnefeld . From this marriage come three sons and a daughter, including the landowner and major Richard (1862–1944) and the Prussian district administrator and landowner Burghard Bock von Wülfingen (1874–1950).

Detlef Bock von Wülfingen , who was appointed major general in 1944, was his grandson.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume XXIII , Page 19, Volume 106 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1994
  2. ^ Corps Saxonia Hannover (Ed.): History of the Corps Saxonia up to the 50th year of its existence (1852-1902) . Göhmannsche Buchdruckerei u. Verlagbuchhandlung, Hanover 1902, p. 172 .
  3. ↑ Bernhard Schroeter: For Burschenschaft und Vaterland , 2006, page 168 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Manfred Schmidt: 150 years of corporations in Hanover , in: Student courier . Journal of Student History, College and Corporations, Volume 3 (1999), page 25.
  5. ↑ Technisch-Chemisches Jahrbuch , Volume 4 (1883), Page 181 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Bock von Wülfingen, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock von Wülfingen, Harry Aloysius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstemmen
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1881
Place of death Hanover