Karl Martell Wild
Karl Martell Wild (born September 6, 1882 in Altenburg (Tübingen district) , † November 20, 1952 in Stuttgart ) was a German engineering scientist .
He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Stuttgart . After a brief employment in the Siemens-Schuckert company he started in 1909 with Bosch , where he soon as a workshop manager for American sister company Bosch Magneto Company was sent and the director of the two Bosch factories in Springfield (Massachusetts) and Plainfield (New Jersey) rose .
When he returned to Germany after the First World War, he was appointed technical director of Bosch-Metallwerke-AG in Feuerbach near Stuttgart and in 1923 as the successor to Gottlob Honold as chief technical director on the board of directors of Bosch. He directed the research and construction work and operational organizational measures. In the mid-twenties, together with the manager of the Feuerbach factory, Ernst Durst, he played a key role in the rationalization of production, especially through the introduction of assembly line work. In 1925 he hired Walter Lippart . After the destruction of the plant at the end of the Second World War, he left the management. He found a new position on the company's supervisory board and on the executor's committee of Robert Bosch.
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 20, 2008 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.
- ↑ Karl Martell Wild in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
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| SURNAME | Wild, Karl Martell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineering scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg (Tübingen district) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1952 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |