Hugo Güldner

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Carl Julius Gustav Hugo Güldner (* July 18, 1866 in Herdecke ; † March 12, 1926 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engineer , inventor and engine builder , whose name today is primarily associated with pioneering achievements in diesel engine construction and with the brand name of Güldner farm tractors connected is.

Life

Hugo Güldner grew up as the son of the factory worker and railway attendant Gustav Güldner and his wife Ida, nee. Erdmann, in the small town of Herdecke in Westphalia , where he was baptized Carl Julius Gustav Hugo on September 23, 1866 . His father died in a railway accident in 1869.

Hugo attended the royal trade school in the neighboring town of Hagen , which has merged into what is now the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences . As an engineer, he was mainly concerned with combustion engines and their further development. Güldner then moved to Magdeburg , where he set up his own factory, built various internal combustion engines and registered a total of twelve utility models and patents ; the best known was entitled " Two-stroke gas- air engine with combustion of the ignition mixture in a special room and introduction of the hot gases into the air-filled working cylinder" .

In 1891 he married Adele Benecken (1873–1927), the daughter of the businessman Karl Benecken and his wife Karoline, born in Witten. Chewing worm.

After several economically unsuccessful productions, in 1899 he switched to Rudolf Diesel at the Augsburg engineering factory , from which today's MAN AG emerged, for almost three years as chief engineer and chief designer . There he designed, among other things, a four-stroke engine .

In 1903 Güldner published his extensive practical handbook on engine construction. In the following year Güldner went to Munich and in February 1904 founded the Güldner Motoren-Gesellschaft mbH together with Carl von Linde and Georg von Krauss ; The namesake Güldner brought the patent for a modern combustion engine to the new company. In 1907, production was relocated to Aschaffenburg in the newly constructed building, not least in order to be able to use the Main as a cheap transport route. Initially, two-cylinder diesel engines with up to 300 hp, constant pressure oil engines , gas power plants and sometimes even motorcycles were manufactured . One of the main buyers for the motors was the company for Linde's Eismaschinen (today's Linde AG ), which required drive units for their refrigeration machines and acquired the first shares in Güldner Motoren GmbH in 1908. From 1912 three- and four-cylinder engines up to 600 hp were also sold.

During the First World War , civil production came to a standstill and motor vehicles and aircraft rotors as well as gray cast iron projectiles, grenades, explosive and throwing mines and mine throwers were manufactured.

In 1917 Güldner was a lieutenant in the reserve and a teacher at the Kgl. Bavarian Mine thrower school in Munich.

After the end of the war, Güldner acquired the Berlin Moorkultur Kraftpflug GmbH and increasingly produced power plows for peat cultivation , as well as engines for inland ships and small diesel engines . After economic difficulties, Linde increased its shares in the company in 1925.

In 1926, the Secret Commerce Councilor, Dr. Ing. E. H. Hugo Güldner after an operation at the age of 59 in Frankfurt. He was buried in the old town cemetery Aschaffenburg; the tomb is a listed building. His wife Adele, b. Benecken, died the following year in Oberstdorf .

The city of Aschaffenburg has dedicated a street to both of them: Güldnerweg (Schweinheim district), Adelenstraße (Obernau colony).

Three years after Hugo Güldners death - for twenty-five year anniversary of the company - the GmbH was out completely at the instigation of Carl von Linde of Linde taken. From the 1930s onwards, production increasingly focused on tractors and the Güldner brand name, which was particularly successful in the field of agricultural machinery , was continued until the late 1960s. From 1934 to 1969 around 100,000 Güldner farm tractors were brought onto the market. It was not until 1991 that the name Güldner was deleted from the commercial register.

Fonts

  • Lieutenant of the reserve Karl Hugo Güldner, teacher ad Kgl. Bavarian Mine thrower school, Munich: 681 Ballistic-critical investigations of the constant lateral deviations of the throwing mines caused by the twist in: Rudolph Gaertner (ed.) Journal of the Association of German Engineers Vol. 61, Part 2 1917 p. 665

In addition to several essays, specialist articles and the patent specifications, Güldner has also written a book that is important in terms of technology history . After its first publication in 1903, it appeared in several revised and expanded editions until the 1920s and was then considered the standard work in engine construction . It has over 1000 illustrations and several hundred pages.

  • Hugo Güldner: Designing and calculating internal combustion engines and fuel gas systems. Handbook for designers and builders of gas and oil engines. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1903.
  • H. Gueldner: Manual for the mine thrower , Munich 1917

literature

  • Walter Güldner: Headwind. Memories of a life between business and university, saddle and sails . (with illustrations by Werner Schrenk) Siering Verlag, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-923154-18-6 .
  • Hans Wolfram von Hentig:  Güldner, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 255 ( digitized version ).
  • Wolfgang Kessler, Gerhard Schmücker: Hugo Güldner - An unknown but important son of the city of Herdecke . In: Herdecker Blätter , Heft 23 (January 2006), pp. 8-10.
  • Walter Sack: All tractors from Fahr and Güldner . OO 1991, ISBN 3-926071-05-2 .
  • Walter Sack: Güldner Tractors & Motors . Podszun Verlag, Brilon 2006, ISBN 3-86133-190-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadtfriedhof.de
  2. ↑ Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg street names - people and personalities and their local historical significance I. Contributions to the history of the city, Volume I Aschaffenburg: City of Aschaffenburg - City and Abbey Archives 1990, ISBN 2-227-72155-3
personal data
SURNAME Güldner, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, engine builder and technology pioneer, founder of Güldner-Motoren-Gesellschaft
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1926
Place of death Frankfurt am Main