Rudolf Bredt

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Rudolf Bredt (born April 17, 1842 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † May 18, 1900 in Wetter ) was a German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur.

After studying mechanical engineering and mathematics in Karlsruhe and Zurich, he worked in England and Germany, primarily in the crane construction sector. In 1867 he joined Stuckenholz AG, of which he later became the sole owner. In 1887 Bredt presented the world's first electrically driven crane. Today he is mainly remembered by the Bredt formulas named after him and published by him for the first time in the VDI Journal in 1896 , an essential part of strength theory .

literature

  • Herbert Dickmann:  Bredt, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 568 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Rudolph Bredt. On the 100th anniversary of the death of the old master of German crane construction. In: Steel construction . Volume 69, 2000, No. 4, pp. 333-344; Reprinted as Rudolph Bredt. An old master of German crane construction. In: Projects. Volume 4/2004. Regional studies in the area of ​​the central Ruhr valley . (Series of publications by the Friedrich-Harkort-Gesellschaft Wetter (Ruhr) and the City Archives Wetter (Ruhr)). Stadtarchiv, Wetter (Ruhr) 2004, pp. 199–216
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures. From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics. Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2008, pp. 411–433.
  • Kornelia Rennert: Rudolph Bredt (1842–1900). In: Wolfhard Weber (ed.) Engineers in the Ruhr area. (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Volume 17). Aschendorff , Münster 1999, ISBN 3-402-06753-6 , pp. 57-73.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ DEMAG emerged from Stuckenholz AG in 1910 through a merger with Duisburger Maschinenbau AG and Benrather Maschinenfabrik GmbH .
personal data
SURNAME Bredt, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1900
Place of death Weather