Heinrich Voigt (electrical engineer)

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Heinrich Voigt, Dr. ing. hc (1857–1937)
Counter of "Voigt & Haeffner AG Frankfurt-M" in the former factory "Dynamit-Nobel" in Saarwellingen

Heinrich Ferdinand Julius Voigt (born July 20, 1857 in Sandersleben , † February 10, 1937 ) was a German electrical engineer .

Heinrich Voigt comes from a pastor's family in Sandersleben . He spent teaching and studying in Dessau and other cities.

In 1885 he founded the Staudt & Voigt company with the financier Jakob Staudt in Frankfurt , on Schlesinger Gasse. All types of installation material, high and low voltage switchgear and complete control rooms were manufactured. In 1890 Jakob Staudt leaves the company and Adolf Haeffner joins the company as a new partner, which from February 1, 1891 bears the name Voigt & Haeffner . In 1889 the plant was relocated from the city center to Bockenheim . In 1896 the chemical-electrical factory Prometheus for electric cooking and heating was founded. After the international electrical engineering exhibition in Frankfurt and the rapid upswing in electrical engineering, the company was converted into the Voigt & Haeffner stock corporation in 1900 with Staudt's heir Adolf Haeffner (1862–1947; son of a hotelier). They soon employed 4,000 people and after the First World War they relocated the plant to the new Frankfurt Osthafen at Hanauer Landstrasse 152 to 172.

Voigt was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer and later in life became a supporter of the pseudo-scientific world ice theory , about which he also wrote a book ("The world ice theory and me").

After his death, his family gave the shares mainly to Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank .

Publications

  • Thoughtful and cheerful things from the first decades of electrical engineering ; R. Voigtländers Verlag; Leipzig 1925 [1]
  • The current diagram of the asynchronous machine ; with Karl Humburg ; A. f. E. 29 (1935), pp. 333-340
  • Letter to the scientific management ; E u. M 60 (1942) 35/36, pp. 379-380

literature

  • Ernst König: 50 years of Voigt & Haeffner ; Frankfurt am Main, 1941
  • The active Frankfurt 1955, 324

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fischer, Franz: "The economic bourgeoisie of the Rhine-Main area in the 19th century", Frankfurt, 1996 urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-46710
  2. ↑ short biography of Dr. ing. hc Heinrich Voigt
  3. ↑ See History of the City of Frankfurt am Main - Edited by Dr. Lothar Voigt ( Memento from August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ König, Ernst: Fifty Years of Voigt & Haeffner. Frankfurt am Main 1941, p. 15.
  5. ↑ Frankfurt address book 1915
  6. ↑ The AG has been part of the Eltek Group since 2003, which has belonged to the Taiwanese company Delta Electronics since 2015 . See http://www.eltek.de/en/home/history/
  7. ↑ "Private Institute for World Ice Theory: Hanns Hörbiger and his closest colleagues"
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt, Heinrich Ferdinand Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandersleben
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1937