Karl Delisle

Karl Delisle (born February 10, 1827 in Konstanz , † January 29, 1909 in Karlsruhe ) was a German engineer and grand-ducal Baden official who campaigned as a member of the second chamber of the Baden assembly of estates for the construction of the Karlsruhe Rhine port.

Life

Delisle studied engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and was there in 1843 a co-founder of the Teutonia fraternity .

After the state exam, Delisle worked from 1849 to 1852 as a cartographer in Washington, DC and then from 1852 to 1854 as an engineer on the North Pennsylvania Railroad . After a short stay in Hungary he worked for the United Swiss Railways on the construction of the Ragaz - Chur line . In 1863 he entered the Baden state service and worked as a technical transport inspector at the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways , where he was appointed mechanical engineer in 1872. He said goodbye in 1876 when he was passed over for promotion for allegedly influencing his workers in a democratic sense. In 1883 he returned to the Baden state service.

Outside of work, he was involved in the Association of German Engineers , where he advocated the introduction of the metric thread system . The standardization of threads and other measurement systems was recognized as an improvement in scientific exchange as well as in cross-border trade in mechanical engineering products, in particular it made the procurement of spare parts easier. Between 1888 and 1895 Delisle campaigned for standardization in discussions and publications, and played a major role in the solution achieved in 1898.

In 1895 he was at his own request for health reasons in the retirement staggered. In the same year he was appointed as deputy for Rastatt elected to the Second Chamber of the States General Baden, of which he was a member of the Democratic Group to the 1899th In this position, he campaigned for the construction of the Karlsruhe Rhine port .

Honors

• In 1937, Karl-Delisle-Strasse in Karlsruhe was named after him.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 228-229.
• Albert Kuntzemüller :  Karl Delisle. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 581 ( digitized version ).
• Manfred Koch: Karl Delisle , in: Blick in die Geschichte No. 121, December 14, 2018, p. 1.
• Ms. Weill: Karl Delisle. In: A. Krieger, K. Obser (Ed.): Badische Biographien . Volume 6, Heidelberg 1935, p. 275 f. (Digitized version)