Julius Mugler
Julius Alfred Mugler (born March 11, 1872 in Tiefenort ; † November 1, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German Imperial Naval Construction Officer and mechanical engineering operations director who worked in Kiel and Danzig .
Life
Julius Mugler was born in Tiefenort on March 1, 1872 , as the son of the Zurich pharmacist August Wilhelm Mugler and Amalie Marie Leinhass . He attended high school in Eisenach from 1883 to 1892 and then took up practical work in the machine shops of the Imperial Shipyards in Kiel and Danzig . From October 1892, Mugler attended the Technical University of Berlin , where he passed the first main examination in 1896 with distinction. In January 1897 he became a naval construction manager at the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel. Mugler completed his military service from October 1897 to October 1898 in the sailor artillery and later became their reserve officer. He passed his naval builder examination in December 1899 with distinction. In the following years he was appointed naval builder (January 1900) and naval building officer (May 1907) and was given the characters of naval senior building officer (1916) as well as naval senior building officer and mechanical engineering operations director (May 1917). For health reasons, Mugler had to resign from the navy in December 1919.
Mugler had played a decisive role in the technical development of the Imperial Navy . He took over the management of the design and construction of the large cruisers SMS Prinz Heinrich , SMS Prinze Adalbert and SMS Roon in the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and in 1903 the entire electrical operation of the shipyard for one year. From November 1904, Mugler supervised the Schichau shipyard in Elbing . At that time 23 torpedo boats as well as the machines and boilers for the ships of the line Alsace-Lorraine and Silesia were built there, the machine systems for the turbine cruiser SMS Kolberg and parts for the large cruiser Roon built in the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel . In April 1908 he came to the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk, where, after completing the machinery for the cruiser SMS Emden, he was responsible for designing and installing the machinery for submarines 9 to 15 in addition to supervising the construction of the new buildings at the Schichau shipyard in Gdansk . Mugler found his most important task here.
From May 1, 1916, he worked as a mechanical engineering operations director at the submarine inspection in Kiel and stayed there until the end of the war. All war experiences, all demands and experiences in the military and technical field came together here. With his extensive theoretical and practical expertise as well as rich experience, Mugler was able to contribute quite a bit to the successful development of the submarine weapon in his field. After the end of the war, he was briefly managing director of the Oil Motor Association and head and board member of the Arca regulator society in Berlin.
Julius Mugler died on November 1, 1933 in Berlin after a long period of suffering
literature
- Eike Lehmann: 100 Years of the Shipbuilding Society. Biographies on the history of shipbuilding . Springer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-64150-6 , pp. 302 .
Web links
- Images of patent applications. (double-jet control device, submarine boat with steam as driving power, evaporator plant). Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Messtechnik: Journal for contemporary operational control and material testing . Volumes 9-10. W. Knapp, 1933, p. 283 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mugler, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mugler, Julius Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German imperial naval chief building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Depth location |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1933 |
| Place of death | Berlin |