Theodor Norbert Kellerbauer

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Theodor Norbert Kellerbauer (born May 26, 1839 in Ering in Bavaria, † January 12, 1918 in Chemnitz ) was a personality and pioneer of the volunteer fire brigades at that time.

From 1873 he was a member of the state committee of the Saxon fire brigades, from 1904 chairman of the technical commission and deputy chairman of the German Reich Fire Brigade Association . Kellerbauer was the bearer of the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht , many fire service awards and an honorary member of the Austrian Fire Service Association .

Life

education

Theodor Kellerbauer completed his first school years in Erding. After the family moved to Munich in 1849, he continued his education from 1850 at the Royal High School with the final exam in 1858 with the grade 1. An activity during this time in the Mannhardt machine shop is documented.

After graduating from high school, he began studying at the University of Munich in the fall of 1858 . Integral and differential calculus as well as chemistry were among his subjects. Above all, however, he was drawn to the Polytechnic School, where he worked as an intern in analytical geometry and physics, trigonometry, arithmetic, descriptive geometry, machine science and machine drawing. During his studies he became a member of the Algovia and later Arminia fraternity in the winter semester of 1858/59 . From 1859 he attended the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony. In addition to mechanics and mining machinery, mathematics and Mine art he learned machinery studies in Zwickau and Chemnitz. A year later he continued his studies at the Technical University of Karlsruhe .

Activity as a designer

After the annual course at the TH Karlsruhe, a longer trip followed, which took him to important factories in Alsace, Belgium, the Rhineland and northern Germany. Then he returned to Munich, where he continued to work on his own designs.

Teaching

At Christmas 1862, Theodor Kellerbauer received the offer to work as a math and physics teacher at a private school in Fellin / Estonia . He obtained the diploma required for this at the University of Dorpat . After three semesters, he started a new job on October 1, 1864 at the Chemnitz State Technical College . At first he taught descriptive and practical geometry and plan drawing at the technical college and mathematics at the foreman school. Machine drawing and machine science were added later at the trade academy. In 1870 he was appointed professor. In 1910, Kellerbauer retired, but continued to give lectures on the subject of fire services at the technical state schools.

Fire fighting activities

In February 1867, Kellerbauer joined the Chemnitz volunteer gymnastics fire brigade , where he took up his service in the climbing team, which he headed as a manager some time later. In 1869, during the Chemnitz Fire Brigade Day, he already had the task of chairing the exhibition committee. On this occasion, Kellerbauer and Julius Dietrich performed experiments in device construction. In 1878 Dietrich built a mechanical ladder with a height of 22 m for the Chemnitz fire brigade based on his design . For the Chemnitz syringe factory C. G. Baldauf he constructed a steel undercarriage for a spray gun and the same company built a gas pressure syringe in 1897 according to his plans for the BF Chemnitz. In 1873 Kellerbauer was elected secretary for the first time in the state committee of Saxon fire departments. In 1874 he played a key role in founding the “Feuerspritze” magazine, and in 1875 on the occasion of the 6th Saxon Fire Brigade Day in Waldheim, he was the first to direct the association's syringe tests and was the sole editor of the “Feuerspritze”. The gymnast fire brigade Chemnitz elected him for the first time this year as their captain. In 1877 he started a series of lectures on fire extinguishing for engineering students at the Chemnitz Technical College. In the same year his book “Fire extinguishing and its introduction as a subject of instruction at technical schools” was published by Pickenhahn .

In 1880, Kellerbauer took over the management of the voluntary gymnastics fire brigade in Chemnitz. In 1891 he was elected for the first time as deputy chairman of the state committee of Saxon fire brigades, in 1904 as chairman of the technical commission and as deputy chairman of the German Reich Fire Brigade Association. Many fire brigade trips took him through Germany and Austria, partly on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior from Saxony to Belgium, England and the Netherlands. In 1909, shortly before his 70th birthday, his son died, his wife died in 1913, and his two daughters in 1915 and 1917. Little by little, Kellerbauer gave up his fire service functions during these years. At the end of 1917, he also resigned from the "Feuerspritze" editor.

Gymnasts and climbers

The Chemnitz gymnastics club elected him as its first chairman in 1878. He kept this office until 1880 and in 1905 he was made an honorary member of the gymnastics club. One focus of his leisure activities was mountaineering , just one year after the Chemnitz section of the German Alpine Club was founded (1882) he was elected its first chairman. He was one of the founding members when the Chemnitz Section was formed. He went on tours with well-known alpinists on the three Aiguilles d'Arves , various peaks of the Dauphiné and to the Jungfrau . The establishment of the “ Chemnitzer Hütte ” on the main page of the main ridge of the Zillertal Alps goes back to his efforts, as well as the establishment of a twelve-kilometer high trail (still known today as the “Kellerbauer-Weg”) from Nevesjoch to Speikboden.

swell

  • German Alpine Club: History of the Chemnitz Section - The First Three Decades (1882 to 1914)
  • Feuerspritze (Die), original years 1874–1917. Holdings complete Fire Brigade Archive Raab (Dietzenbach), year 1913–1917 German National Library Leipzig
  • Theodor Kellerbauer: Fire extinguishing and its introduction as a subject of instruction at technical educational institutions , 1877 ( full text )
  • Wolfgang Mann: Theodor Norbert Kellerbauer - A Chemnitz vocational school teacher and alpinist. In: Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein (editor): Chemnitzer Fates Part 2, pages 11–15, 2004
  • Helmut Raab: Feuerspritze (Die), A magazine and its epoch (1874–1917), manuscript printing 1999
  • Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection (vfdb): Short biography of Theodor Friedrich Kellerbauer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kellerbauer personnel file, University Archive Chemnitz UAC 100/104, cf. Proof in the archive portal-D ,
  2. ^ Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - becoming and fate. Munich 1967, p. 140.
  3. ↑ http://www.dav-chemnitz.de/download.php?f=a7b5512ee703a45610a88f060a082471&target=0
  4. ↑ http://www.vfdb.de/Referat-11.92.0.html
personal data
SURNAME Cellar builder, Theodor Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cellar builder, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fire department official
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Erding
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1918
Place of death Chemnitz