Heinrich Güttinger

Heinrich Güttinger (born April 5, 1874 in Gossau ; † May 7, 1965 in Wettingen , legal resident in Gossau) was a Swiss inventor and entrepreneur .

Life

Heinrich Güttinger was born on April 5, 1874 in Gossau as the son of Heinrich Güttinger senior and Susanne nee Leemann. Güttinger completed his training as an electrician in Basel . Subsequently, he worked for the Alioth company in Münchenstein until 1898 , most recently as chief fitter for the construction of electricity plants in Granada .

He then moved to Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC) , for which he then worked until 1918 and from 1926 to 1946. There he first worked in the mountain railways sector, including the Gornergrat , Vesuv and Jungfraubahn , from 1926 as a designer , most recently as a department head in Baden . In between he ran his own entrepreneur in Zwickau from 1918 to 1926 .

Heinrich Güttinger married Bertha, the daughter of Creszentia Butscher, in 1901. He died on May 7, 1965, one month after turning 91 in Wettingen.

Act

In 1904 and 1907 two inventions by Heinrich Güttinger helped electric train lighting achieve a breakthrough. Güttinger's revolutionary high-speed voltage regulator with a rolling sector soon found other areas of application, for example for regulating generators in power plants, and contributed a lot to the BBC's good reputation until it was replaced by electronics in the 1970s . After 1946 he developed an automatic electric incubator .

literature

• BBC House Newspaper , No. 4 , 1954; No. 7 , 1965
• K. Tapavica: "75 years of electrical train lighting in Switzerland", In: Bulletin SEV / VSE 70, 1979, page 433 f.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Güttinger, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .