Paul treasure

Paul Schatz (born December 22, 1898 in Konstanz , † March 7, 1979 in Arlesheim , Switzerland ) was an anthroposophist , artist , inventor and technician . Schatz studied mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy and astronomy in Munich and Hanover. Because he was too skeptical about positivistic science, he did not complete his studies.

Life and inventions

After the First World War, Schatz first turned to mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich , later to art (training as a wood carver, working as a sculptor) and above all to anthroposophy. His unconventional combination of art, philosophy and technology led to the discovery of inversion kinematics , the oloid and the invertible cube . Schatz first discovered the eversion of the platonic solids in 1929 on the pentagon dodecahedron. The fact that the cube can be completely turned inside out, to which Schatz particularly turned, is still a revolutionary work that is comparatively little recognized in current teaching.

His life's work consisted in making the new laws he found usable primarily for the kinematics , which until now only knew the rotational and translational movement, thus only one movement in the plane. Thanks to the Swiss patent with the number 500,000, the oloid received attention in the press. In 1973 the WDR produced a television film about the work and ideas of Paul Schatz. An animation of the invertible cube also became the well-known broadcast logo of the WDR in the 1970s.

His main work Rhythm Research and Technology was published in old age . The Paul Schatz Foundation based in Basel has taken on his estate in Germany and Switzerland .

Publications

• The way to artistic creation in the power of consciousness. Self-published, Constance 1927.
• Rhythm research and technology. 2nd ext. Edition. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3772516262 .
• Humanities and Technology. Collected Essays. Publishing house Niggli AG, Sulgen.

Patents (selection)

• Spatial movement system (everting gear), DE Patent No. 589'452 (filing date: August 31, 1931, issued November 9, 1933)
• Evertable structure (everting gear), CH-Patent No. 173,832 (filing date: August 29, 1932, issued December 15, 1934)
• Mechanism for generating a tumbling and rotating body movement (Turbula), CH patent No. 216'760 (filing date: February 5, 1939, issued September 15, 1941)
• Aid for generating a tumbling motion (Oloid), CH patent No. 500,000 (filing date: August 3, 1968, issued December 15, 1970)
• Device for generating a tumbling movement, for example for mixing (Oloid), DE Patent No. 1,936,595 (filing date: July 18, 1969, issued September 3, 1974)
• Tumbling Apparatus (Oloid), U.S. Patent 3,610,587 (filing date: July 16, 1969, issued October 5, 1971)
• Device for generating a tumbling movement (turning cone drive), CH patent No. 555,490 (filing date: April 19, 1972, issued September 15, 1974)
• Device for generating a tumbling movement (turning cone drive), DE patent no.2'319'742 (filing date: April 18, 1973, issued in February 1977)
• Shaking or mixing machine (continuous turbula), CH patent No. 586,066 (filing date: December 19, 1974, issued February 15, 1977)

literature

• Christian Bärtschi: Honey, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Matthias Mochner (Ed.): Paul Schatz. Architecture and eversion. Studies on organic dynamic spatial awareness. A training path for architects. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2013, ISBN 978-3-7235-1450-4 .
• Paul Schatz Foundation (Ed.): DIALOGUE - Paul Schatz, the Basel market hall and the year 1929 . Preface v. Tobias Langscheidt u. Tilo Richter, texts by Paul Schatz, Walter Kugler u. a., Standpunkte, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-9524872-1-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Schatz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Schatz Foundation - Foundation
• Paul Schatz models
• European Patent Office database (24 entries on Paul Schatz)
• Oloid: The secret of the inverted cube