Richard Pintsch

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Richard Pintsch (born February 19, 1840 in Berlin ; † September 6, 1919 there ) was a German designer and entrepreneur .

Life

Apprenticeship as a plumber and development as an entrepreneur

Richard Pintsch was the eldest son of Julius Pintsch , who had founded a workshop for lighting objects in Fürstenwalde near Berlin in 1843 , in which apparatus for the production of luminous gas and gas meters were produced from 1848 .

After graduating from a four-class high school , he began an apprenticeship in his father's factory at the age of 15.

In 1867 Richard Pintsch developed a gas pressure regulator to illuminate the wagons of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn , in 1869 two night trains ran between Berlin and Breslau with this lighting. In 1879 he and his brothers Julius and Oskar took over their father's company, which produced a reliable lighting system using oil gas - "Pintsch gas" - and compressed gas for lighting. The principle was expanded to include sea ​​marks in the 1870s . The illuminated signs withstood heavy seas and lasted three to six months without maintenance. In 1880 the company equipped the Suez Canal and the Kiel Canal with illuminated signs.

Richard Pintsch built a total of 190 oil gas production plants throughout Germany and also expanded abroad.

In 1886 he brought with Carl Auer von Welsbach, the first for Gasglühlicht useful Bunsen out, which enabled the triumph of "Auer light". From 1893 Pintsch also manufactured incandescent lamps .

After the German Patent Act was passed , Richard Pintsch feared the revocation of the UK patents. To prevent this, the Pintsch lamps should be produced in Great Britain. In 1909 he therefore acquired the British Power Plant Construction Co. in Brimsdown , Middlesex (now part of Enfield Town, Greater London ), and opened the Imperial Lamp Works lamp factory ( Brimsdown Lamps Work from 1910 ). During the First World War he tried to protect these subsidiaries from expropriation and by 1917 transferred 70 percent of the shares to a British lawyer and the managing director of the plant. Nevertheless, the lamp factory was confiscated and transferred to the British company Cosmos Lamp Works Ltd. sold. In 1910, Pintsch brought the Swiss engineer Hugo Grob into the company, who developed electric train lighting over the next two years. Later he turned to hydrogen technology and balloon flights .

Richard Pintsch married the 27-year-old Marie Heller (1841–1871), daughter of the rentier Johann Heller and Friederike Heller, in 1868. She died in the third year of marriage. In 1875 he married Marie Goldbeck († 1922), daughter of the rentier August Goldbeck and Katharine Goldbeck b. Rage. He and his second wife had three sons and four daughters.

Richard Pintsch died one year after the end of the First World War, and three years later his wife Maria died as well. Both were buried in the family grave of the Pintsch family in cemetery I of the Protestant Georgen Parish in Berlin. The elaborate tomb has the shape of a Doric temple.

Despite their seven children, the couple lacked a qualified heir to run the company. Son Erwin Pintsch became addicted to alcohol and died in Berchtesgaden at the age of almost thirty. His grave is there in the old cemetery. The four daughters were wealthy married. Daughter Martha married Otto Bormann (1877–1973), who holds a doctorate in law .

Villa Marienfels

At the end of the 1880s Richard Pintsch came to the Berchtesgadener Land , where he was particularly interested as a designer in the Reichenbach'sche brine pipeline , which ran from the Berchtesgaden salt mine to the Bad Reichenhall saltworks about twenty kilometers away , along the flank of a small mountain, the Kälberstein. In the immediate vicinity of this brine pipeline, he spontaneously acquired a piece of land on which he had the Villa Marienfels built. The construction site was on an exposed, very steep slope in front of it and was therefore considered to be extremely difficult. The unusual building was designed in the neo-renaissance style by the Berlin architects Wilhelm Cremer and Richard Wolffenstein . The load-bearing iron construction of the house that appears to float above the city center was manufactured in Berlin-Fürstenwalde in 1892, assembled there on a trial basis and then transported by train to Berchtesgaden . The assembly on a largely artificially created slope terrace only took four months. The Villa Marienfels was named after Pintsch's wife, to whom he officially gave the house as a gift.

The villa was equipped with the greatest technical comfort, including its own water supply - thirteen years before a central pipeline network was installed in Berchtesgaden. It was also connected to the power grid of the Berchtesgadener Elektrizitätsversorgungs-Gesellschaft, the first in Bavaria. In addition to steam central heating for all rooms, the house also had a paging system with an intercom function and an electric elevator , with the help of which Richard Pintsch, who suffered from heart disease, could easily climb the fifty meters from the Berchtesgaden market up to his house. The design of the interior was entirely up to the client. Exquisite furniture, a cast iron staircase over all three floors of the house, grotesque paintings, precious wooden ceilings with carvings and pyrography and colored stained glass windows were part of the dignified luxury. The planning and expansion of the garden took twenty-five years to complete.

honors and awards

Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd class

Richard Pintsch was a founding member and since 1910 an honorary member of the German Machine Technology Society , as well as a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering and an honorary member of the Association for the Promotion of Industry . The Pintschallee in Berlin-Britz - near the Teltow Canal - is named after him.

Richard Pintsch also received the following honors and awards:

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Definition: pinsch gas. In: dictionary.die.net. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 .
  2. ^ Antje Hagen: German direct investments in Great Britain 1871-1918. Franz Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-515-07152-9 , p. 122. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ Villa Marienfels in Berchtesgaden ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freidenkerin.com
  4. ↑ List of honorary members of the German Machine Technology Society , accessed on May 25, 2011
  5. ↑ Pintschallee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  6. ↑ On the passing of Richard Pintsch. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 334, 1919, pp. 221-223.
personal data
SURNAME Pintsch, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1919
Place of death Berlin