Philipp Fischer (Metallurgist)

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Johann Philipp Fischer (born May 7, 1846 in Trier , † February 19, 1927 in Duisburg-Ruhrort ) was a German engineer , metallurgist and ironworker.

Life

Philipp Fischer, son of the butcher Philipp Fischer senior and the Elisabeth born Henn, studied at the industrial academy and at the mining academy in Berlin before he took up positions in the Dillinger iron and steel works , then in the rolling mill founded by Carl Stein in 1839 in Wehbach an der Sieg . In 1872 Fischer took up an assistant position in the puddling and rolling mill of the Phoenix ironworks in Ruhrort, where his then rolling mill boss Franz Freudenberg (1844–1912) carried out the first attempts at rolling grooved rails at the instigation of an English company .

In 1880, Philipp Fischer was appointed to succeed Franz Freudenberg as rolling mill manager, a position he held until he retired in 1917. Fischer turned entirely to the manufacture of grooved rails, developing a process that is still fundamentally decisive for the manufacture of these rails today. He was also used to further develop the rail joint , as well as the entire tramway superstructure.

Philipp Fischer, appointed building officer in 1909 and secret building officer in 1917, was married to Emilie Aurelie, the daughter of the businessman Hermann Hannesen, with whom he had two sons. Fischer died in Duisburg-Ruhrort in 1927 at the age of 80.

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  • The grooved rail, its origin and development. In: Steel and Iron. Vol. 29, 1909, ISSN  0340-479X , pp. 1217-1221, 1262-1267.

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SURNAME Fischer, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Johann Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, metallurgist and ironworker
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1927
Place of death Duisburg-Ruhrort