Hartwig Michels
Hartwig Gerhard Michels (born November 10, 1941 , Brașov , Kingdom of Romania ; † February 5, 2020 in Nuremberg ) was a German inventor of air cushion transporters and an entrepreneur .
Life
Hartwig Michels was the son of the engineer Josef Michels . He attended the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum in Timișoara , after which he completed an apprenticeship as an iron lathe operator and locksmith. Michels then studied engineering at the Timișoara Polytechnic "Traian Vuia" and received his doctorate in 1976 with Vasile Berindei .
Michels and his family first emigrated from Romania to Austria, later he moved to Nuremberg. There he initially researched metal air and later multifluid cushions and published specialist papers on this. In 1983 he and his school friend Knut Klingler founded the DELU Luftkissen Transportgerätetechnik GmbH in Nuremberg , which in 2011 offered over 80 different types and sizes of air cushions in the load range from 0.2 to 80 tons and employed around 50 people. Michels held around 60 patents and protected utility models in 2011. In 1988 he received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Ideas-Inventions-Novelties in Nuremberg for his air cushion systems .
Michels came from the Banat Swabian ethnic group and was the father of two daughters, including Karin Michels-Rautenstrauß , who is also part of the company's management.
Publications
- Air cushion technology - approaches to increasing the internal mobility of factories , in: Henrik Enderlein (Ed.): Competence Networks of Production and Mobile Production Facilities , Special Issue 5 of the Scientific Series of the Institute for Industrial Management and Factory Systems , October 2002, p. 127
Web links
- Website of the DELU air cushion transport device technology , Nuremberg
- IHK Nürnberg for Middle Franconia: Transporting loads while floating. In: IHK magazine WiM, July 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Title of the doctoral thesis: Timpul admisiunii la motoarele cu aprindere prin compresiune cu camera de ardere unitară , 28 pp ., 1976. In: Library of the Dunărea de Jos University Galați : Titluri, Resumate Teze de Doctorat și Teze de Doctorat, Intrate în Bibliotecă , March 2008, in Romanian
- ↑ a b c d e Thomas Lappe: Moving tons of weight as light as a feather. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung , January 14, 2011
- ^ A b Hans Fink : How attitudes towards school and studies changed after the Second World War. In: Banat Geschichtssplitter, June 24, 2013
- ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , entry: Hartwig Gerhard Michels, 1992
- ↑ Nuremberg Commercial Register, file number 2724
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michels, Hartwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michels, Hartwig Gerhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German inventor of air cushion transporters and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brașov , Kingdom of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2020 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |