Heinrich Kurz (inventor)

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Heinrich Wilhelm Kurz (* 1862 in Windecken ; † 1934 ) was a German inventor .

Life

"Sweet Heinrich" - a sugar shaker named after its inventor Heinrich Kurz.

He had learned the saddlery for a short time and worked in a powder mill in Hanau-Wolfgang . When his wife died in 1899, he left the job to care for his six children, aged between eleven and three months. He became a night watchman and took the drugs for the pharmacy to the neighboring towns.

Kurz developed a rotating washing machine. He also invented a pancake spatula, stand-up man, an overrun brake and independent wheel suspension for carts, a toilet attachment for small children and the sugar shaker . Kurz never applied for patents. However, he recorded his inventions in a small notebook. His grandson Theodor Jacob registered a patent for the sugar shaker in 1953 and started producing it in his company Helly in Hanau in 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Kurz invented the sugar shaker: Nidderau's sweetest invention ( memento from November 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Well-known Nidderauer , City of Nidderau, accessed on November 15, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Georgia Lori: Necessity makes you inventive: The developer of the sugar dispenser comes from Nidderau - and died early , Frankfurter Neue Presse, August 12, 2016
  4. ↑ Birthday of the "sweet Heinrich": The sugar shaker turns 60 , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME In short, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briefly, Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Wind corners
DATE OF DEATH 1934