Richard Kablitz

Richard Arnold Kablitz (born May 20 or May 7, 1868 at the Eichhof manor , Livonia Governorate ; † July 11, 1959 in Lauda ) was an inventor and entrepreneur.

Life

Kablitz attended the district school and from 1881 to 1886 the secondary school in Dorpat . After attending grammar school, Kablitz studied civil engineering in 1887/1888 and mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic in Riga from 1888 to 1892 , but later turned to heat engineering in particular . In 1892 he became an engineer and from 1891 to 1893 he was an assistant for mechanical technology at the Riga Polytechnic, as well as a designer at the Richard Pohle machine factory .

From 1893 to 1894 Kablitz was a designer at San Galli in St. Petersburg, then in 1894 with Liphardt in Moscow and from 1894 to 1897 with Richard Pohle in Riga. In 1896 he exhibited a petroleum-gas-naphtha engine at the technical fair in Nizhny Novgorod and in the following years devoted himself to the production of steam systems. From 1897 to 1901 he was co-owner and director of the “Motor” machine factory in Riga-Sassenhof, which built petroleum motors.

From 1901 to 1904 he was a civil engineer and from 1904 to 1939 director and co-owner, later sole owner of the Riga Society for the Economy of Steam Generation Costs and Combustion Control (invention, development and construction of the Kablitz finned tube economiser , mechanical overturning furnace and air heater) .

From 1915 to 1918 he lived in Russia as the factory to Cherepet and the engineering office to Petrograd had been evacuated. In 1917 his works in Riga were badly affected and in 1919 he was forced to leave the Baltic States before the Soviets invaded.

From 1919 to 1939 he lived in Riga again and devoted himself to the further development and export of thermal systems. The establishment of a new company in the Wartheland was again in vain. From 1941 to 1945 Kablitz was a trustee of a machine factory and iron foundry in Litzmannstadt . After fleeing again, he managed to rebuild his company in Lauda near Bad Mergentheim. From 1952 he was general director of the Deutsche Richard Kablitz GmbH in Lauda. His company built air heaters, economizers and furnaces, and also for large tankers. He became an honorary member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

literature

• Richard Kablitz: a life in the service of heating technology. 1869-1958 . Stieber, 1959.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Richard Kablitz. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• History of the Richard Kablitz & Mitthof company and the inventions of Richard Kablitz