Moritz Stambke

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Moritz Stambke

Moritz Stambke (born February 23, 1830 in Klein Lübars , administrative district Magdeburg , † February 18, 1903 in Berlin ) was the secret senior building officer of the Royal Prussian State .

In 1853, Stambke became a mechanical engineer for the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) and headed the Witten workshop from 1863 to 1873 as chief engineer. In 1874 Stambke became the railway director of the BME in Elberfeld .

In 1881 he was the first mechanical engineer to be appointed to the Royal Prussian Ministry of Public Works as a lecturing council. Until 1895 he was responsible for the machine technology of the Prussian State Railways , where he became known through the introduction of the " standard parts ". He retired in 1895 as a secret senior building officer.

Quote

“Our time is already nervous and hasty enough; we shouldn't encourage this by increasing speeds. "

literature

  • Moritz Stambke: The historical development of the standard parts for the operating resources of the Prussian state railways in the years 1871 to 1895. In: Glasers Annalen . 1895-I, p. 86 ff.
  • A. Birk: Stambke, Moritz. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 8, 1903, Reimer, Berlin 1905, p. 226

Individual evidence

  1. Akira Iriye , Jürgen Osterhammel , Sebastian Conrad : History of the world - ways to the modern world: 1750–1870, CH Beck , 2016, p. 288