Richard Vetter

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Richard Vetter (born September 11, 1919 - April 19, 2000 ) was a German inventor from Peine .

Life

The idea of ​​the trained master miller goes back, among other things, to the full condensing boiler ("Vetter furnace"), which increases the efficiency by cooling the combustion gases and enables the use of simple plastic pipes for exhaust gas discharge . In contrast to conventional condensing boilers, the Vetter furnace is not limited to heating with low system temperatures ( e.g. panel heating ) and has a special desulphurisation device .

The environmentally friendly stove was torpedoed for years by TÜV , chimney sweep associations and the Federal Environment Agency . One point of criticism was the cooling of the exhaust gases claimed by Vetter to temperatures that a plastic exhaust pipe made possible. A plastic exhaust pipe was almost unthinkable back then. Vetter invested more than six years and more than 5 million DM in the development process. In 1977 a bread factory he ran burned down . The majority of the insured sum paid out at the time provided the financial basis for the development of the stove. In 1985, the television magazine Panorama reported on the inventor's disputes with TÜV Hanover , whose employees, in the presence of the cameramen, were unable to reproduce the alleged inadmissible exhaust gas temperatures.

In 1986 Vetter sold his technical process to a Swiss group of companies after the TÜV had declared the furnace to be fundamentally permissible, but continued to object to numerous details, so that no German manufacturer could be found for production. Vetter only received a general building permit twelve years after the application was made .

Vetter was awarded the Rudolf Diesel Medal in 1986 . In 1987 he received the environmental protection award .

literature

  • Daniel Knop : The cousin oven. An inventor, a new environmentally friendly heating system and years of struggle against bureaucrats . 5th enlarged edition. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-923478-27-5 (first edition: 1987).
  • Inventions: Second snake, Richard Vetter, inventor of the “miracle furnace from Peine”, fights against the TÜV. At an on-site meeting, in front of TV cameras, he won . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1985, pp. 201-202 ( Online - Feb. 25, 1985 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Panorama , February 19, 1985, 0:24:34 - 0:38:46
  2. ^ Letter to Bonn . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/1986
  3. Panorama , March 4, 1986, 0:30:13 - 0:35:43
  4. ^ Advertisement in Nordfriesland-Schleswig-Flensburg today , February 2007 edition, p. 25