Otto Bengtson

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Otto Bengtson (* 1924 ; † August 30, 1988 ) was a German coffee machine inventor and entrepreneur .

Life

“Moccadur” pump percolators from Otto Bengtson

Otto Bengtson was born in Thuringia in 1924 . He was the eldest son from the marriage of master metalworker Otto Bengtson († 1950) and his wife Elisabeth Bengtson, née Petzold. The father had had his own craft business in Berlin-Lichtenberg since 1934 . In 1945 the company and the apartment were destroyed by an air mine and after the war ended by the father, Otto Bengtson jun. and rebuilt his two younger brothers. After the father's death due to illness, Otto Bengtson junior continued the business, initially together with his mother.

At the beginning of the 1950s, he designed the first and probably best-known coffee machine in the GDR with the name " Moccadur ". From 1954 onwards, he presented this electric coffee machine at the Leipzig Trade Fair and signed contracts for domestic German trade and export. The machine was manufactured in the established company at Lückstraße 29 in Berlin-Lichtenberg and later in PGH Elektromechanik Berlin-Kaulsdorf , founded in 1958 , which became VEB Elektromechanik Kaulsdorf from 1972 and was the largest coffee machine manufacturer in the GDR.

Variants of the "Mocca Crown" from Otto Bengtson KG (1968)

Bengtson lived in Berlin-Biesdorf from 1958 to 1968 . At the Leipzig spring fair in 1960, he presented a fully automatic large-scale coffee brewing system for restaurants, which then became known under the name "Mocca-Krone". In 1962 he designed the aluminum coffee maker "Moccadolly". In 1963 he added a drinks machine that he had developed himself - his Otto Bengtson Metallwaren KG (OBM) company in Berlin-Niederschöneweide had meanwhile become semi-public - and in 1965 with a self-service coffee machine that could produce 250 cups of coffee per hour.

In 1969 Otto Bengtson invented the fully automatic coffee machine with an integrated grinder , which was marketed by OBM. In the mid-1970s, the device became a German export hit and was the basis of today's developments.

After his company was nationalized after the death of Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973), Otto Bengtson emigrated to West Berlin in 1974 because he did not want to continue working as a manager in the development department of his former company. As a pensioner, he owned an apartment in Berlin-Moabit , in which, among other things, he worked on a solution for the production of a liquid coffee extract. He had already applied for a patent for it in 1985. Representatives of the coffee producers from Melitta and Douwe-Egberts had already visited him, but despite the positive assessment of the quality of the product, they were not interested in licensing. He was to be found regularly at the inventors' get-together in Café Blisse in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Ritter: A tireless inventor: Otto Bengtson developed coffee machines. In: berliner-woche.de. August 25, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Spielhagen: Patent solutions: With the gold diggers in the realm of ideas . In: TransAtlantik . January 1988, ISSN  0720-0811 , p. 96-100 . limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Bengtson, O. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, 4, p. 2145. “Lückstr. 29, Bengtson, O. - Metalldruckerei ”(the first entry is in the Berlin address book in 1936, the family seems to have moved to Berlin only shortly before).
  4. ↑ Klara Bengtson: Classification of malleolar fractures according to N. Lauge-Hansen. 200 cases from the Auguste Viktoria Municipal Hospital. Diss., Medical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin, 1962, p. 23.
  5. ^ The Moccadur from Kaulsdorf and their Biesdorf inventor Otto Bengtson - lecture in the district center of Biesdorf on June 25, 2014. District Office Marzahn-Hellersdorf, June 12, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Kaulsdorfer Kaffeeschätze in the lecture: Historiker presents the "Moccadur" , Berliner Abendblatt , January 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Berliner Handwerk exports to eleven countries. In: Neue Zeit , December 24, 1954, p. 5. ([...] while the Bengtson craft business received orders from the German Trade Center for the delivery of springform pans, baking appliances and coffee machines valued at DM 500,000.)
  8. ↑ Berliner Handwerk expanded export. Bengtson coffee machine to West Germany In: Berliner Zeitung , March 17, 1955, p. 5.
  9. ↑ Not a samovar, but a coffee machine: the exhibit we are looking for is a “Moccadur”. Thüringer Allgemeine , September 24, 2016, accessed February 8, 2017.
  10. ↑ Trade fair news from private companies In: Neue Zeit, January 19, 1960, p. 5.
  11. ↑ In: The technology. Volume 19, Verlag Technik , 1964, p. 222 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  12. ↑ Simple elegance - an exhibition on GDR utility design in the western part of Berlin. Kultura-Extra, July 21, 2012, accessed February 8, 2017.
  13. ↑ Heinz Hirdina : Design for the series: Design in the GDR 1949–1985. Office for Industrial Design , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1988, p. 150
  14. ^ GDR consumer goods - beautiful and functional. Notes from the tour with the representatives of our republic. In: Berliner Zeitung, September 2, 1963, p. 2.
  15. ↑ Berliner Kaffeeautomat In: Neues Deutschland, January 10, 1965, p. 8.
  16. ↑ Patent DE3539387A1: Process for producing durable coffee extracts. In: patents.google.com. September 17, 1985. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Inventors 'get-together in Berlin: Prominent regulars' table participants: Otto Bengtson. In: erfinderclub-berlin.de. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bengtson, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coffee machine inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1988
Place of death West Berlin