Karl Wichert

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Karl Wichert 1914

Karl Wichert (born May 10, 1843 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † June 18, 1921 in Nauheim ) was a German railway engineer .

Life

Wichert studied mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg and joined the Prussian State Railways as a mechanical engineer . He headed the mechanical engineering office at the Bromberg Railway Directorate. In 1875 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works as a scientific assistant. Later he worked for the operations office of the Berlin city and ring railway. In 1883 he became a member of the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin. He moved back to the ministry in 1889 and was appointed secret building officer in 1894. He remained head of the mechanical engineering department there until 1904. He tried to introduce the automatic train brake and was able to get steam heating and the Kunze-Knorr brake on the Prussian railways .

Wichert was a founding member and board member of the Association of German Machine Engineers, which was renamed the Deutsche Maschinentechnische Gesellschaft (DMG) in 1920 . Between 1899 and 1920 he was first chairman of the organization. Since 1912 he was an honorary member. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the North German Wagenbau-Vereinigung donated 20,000 marks as base capital to the Wichert Foundation, which was transferred to the DMG Foundation, today's DMG Krienitz Foundation , in 1972 .

Honors

literature

  • Blacks: Excellence Wichert / A picture of life and time. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 61, No. 4 (January 27, 1921), pp. 61–66.
  • Müller: Really. Secret advice Dr.-Ing. eh Carl Wichert †. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 61, No. 26 (June 30, 1921), pp. 506–507.
  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  • Wichert, Karl . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . KG Saur, 1995-2003, Volume 10, p. 471.

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personal data
SURNAME Wichert, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichert, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1921
Place of death Nauheim