Oskar Günther (instrument maker)

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Oskar Günther (born May 25, 1863 in Berlin ; † March 26, 1933 in Braunschweig ) was a German instrument maker .

biography

Oskar Günther was the son of a telegraph operator. At the Berlin company "Carl Bamberg" he completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and specialized in the production of theodolites . At the instigation of the professor of geodesy Carl Koppe , Günther took up employment as a precision mechanic at the Technical University of Braunschweig in the spring of 1889 . The Koppe-Günther collaboration then resulted in a theodolite that marked a milestone in geodetic photogrammetry . The instrument was presented at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and received a silver medal.

One year after Oskar Günther started his work in Braunschweig, he set up a “workshop for precision mechanics”. In addition to instruments for surveying , hatching machines for xylographs were also part of his production program. Exclusively he made one developed by the Brunswick mathematics teacher Karl Hildebrandt conic - circle . In 1892 Günther manufactured special instruments for Fridtjof Nansen's polar expedition with the Fram from 1893 to 1896.

Günther & Tegetmeyer oHG

Around 1900 a new branch emerged for the instrument making. Scientists and research institutes increasingly ordered devices that were intended for use in the field of radioactivity . Oskar Günther brought Otto Tegetmeyer, a qualified employee, into the workshop.

After Tegetmeyer had passed his master craftsman examination, both signed a partnership agreement on April 1, 1901, with which they founded the “Günther & Tegetmeyer oHG - workshop for scientific and technical precision instruments”.

Scientific apparatus engineering , in particular the manufacture of various types of electrometers , developed well. Additional employees were hired and the manufacturing facilities expanded. By the 1920s, “Günther & Tegetmeyer” had grown into a well-known company that dominated the apparatus manufacturing market for measurements of nuclear physics .

Measuring devices made by him accompanied polar expeditions and were involved in geodetic masterpieces. In the workshop for scientific instrument making Günther & Tegetmeyer , which he co-founded , devices were manufactured that were indispensable for research into atmospheric electricity , in the field of photoelectric photometry and for research into radioactivity.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of a single-thread electrometer from 1911
  2. ^ Photo of an electrometer from 1938
  3. ↑ Short history of the Günther & Tegetmeyer company
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur in Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1933
Place of death Braunschweig