Oskar Lasche

Oskar Lasche (born June 22, 1868 in Leipzig , † June 30, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German mechanical , electrical and railway engineer.

The railcar, also known as the "Lasche-Lok" , which set the world speed record in 1903.

Life

After attending the Thomas School in Leipzig and the Kreuzschule in Dresden, Lasche studied mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg ( TU Berlin ). After stays abroad, Lasche found a job at AEG in Berlin as a senior engineer, from 1902 as director of the machine factory in Brunnenstrasse in Berlin-Wedding, then from 1904 as the first director of the new AEG turbine factory on Huttenstrasse in Berlin-Moabit.

Tab has been known for its steam turbine designs and through the under his leadership for the Research Association for Electric commuter trains constructed, sometimes "tab-Lok" said electric train cars , in 1903 on the military Bahn Berlin / Marienfelde-Zossen with 210 km / h set a world speed record.

Furthermore, Lasche recognized early on the importance that the diesel engine would acquire especially in shipbuilding.

literature

Walther Fischer: Lasche, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 646 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Espach: Cathedrals of Work are growing ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Nordkurier online edition of January 9, 2010. @1@ 2

↑ Lasche, Oskar: The steam turbines of the General Electricity Society, Berlin. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. - Berlin: 48 (1904) 33, 34. - pp. 1205-1212, pp. 1252-1256

↑ Lasche, Oskar: The turbine manufacturing of the AEG. - In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. - Berlin 55 (1911) 29. - p. 1200

^ M. Buhle, W. Pfitzner: The Schnellbahnwagen of the study society for electric express trains in Berlin. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 319, 1904, pp. 481-484.

personal data
SURNAME	Lasche, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mechanical, electrical and railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	June 30, 1923
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Peter Espach: Cathedrals of Work are growing ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Nordkurier online edition of January 9, 2010. @1@ 2

[2] Lasche, Oskar: The steam turbines of the General Electricity Society, Berlin. In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. - Berlin: 48 (1904) 33, 34. - pp. 1205-1212, pp. 1252-1256

[3] Lasche, Oskar: The turbine manufacturing of the AEG. - In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers. - Berlin 55 (1911) 29. - p. 1200

[4] M. Buhle, W. Pfitzner: The Schnellbahnwagen of the study society for electric express trains in Berlin. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 319, 1904, pp. 481-484.