Rudolf Blochmann

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Georg Friedrich Rudolf Blochmann , also Rudolph Blochmann , (born October 26, 1865 in Dresden , † 1944 in Kiel ) was a German engineer who worked in the Association of Consulting Engineers . He tried to reform the calendar and create a perpetual calendar and was a city councilor in Kiel.

Life

He was the son of Dresden city gas technician and entrepreneur Georg Moritz Sigismund Blochmann (born August 23, 1820 in Dresden; † January 28, 1894 in Loschwitz) and grandson of the engineer and gas technology pioneer Rudolf Sigismund Blochmann (1784–1871). Rudolf Blochmann attended the Royal High School in Dresden-Neustadt and then studied at the Technical University of Dresden and at the Universities of Königsberg and Leipzig. In 1889 he received his doctorate in Leipzig for Dr. phil. and passed the senior teacher examination. He then worked for a short time in Königsberg and in 1890 became a trial teacher at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium in Dresden. Until 1893 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Dresden before he moved to the torpedo laboratory in Kiel. In 1899, Rudolf Blochmann started his own business as a consulting engineer.

From 1917 to 1933 he was a city councilor in Kiel.

He was chairman and honorary member of the Association of Consulting Engineers. In 1900 he founded the Schleswig-Holstein Electrotechnical Association in Kiel.

Fonts (selection)

  • The use of wireless telegraphy for nautical purposes , Leipzig 1903.
  • Calendar reform with the determination of the Easter date. Astronomical, historical, ecclesiastical and economic considerations together with a draft of a perpetual calendar (= writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein). Volkswohl-Verlag, Kiel 1919.
  • Calendar reform. Why? How? and when? 1931.
  • The development of our calendar from its beginnings to the present and its future development , 1934.
  • Rudolf Sigismund Blochmann, the founder of German gas technology , Berlin 1939.
  • From the early history of gas technology. Fundamentally different forms of the first development of gas lighting in England and Germany , Munich 1942.

literature

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Electrotechnical magazine . Ed. A., Volume 71, 1950, p. 127.
personal data
SURNAME Blochmann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blochmann, Rudolph; Blochmann, Georg Friedrich Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Kiel