Thomas Petsch

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Thomas Petsch at the Hanse Sail

Thomas Petsch (born December 14, 1959 in Würzburg ; † July 17, 2017 in Wismar ) was a German engineer , entrepreneur and inventor .

Life

While still studying mechanical engineering at the FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt , Thomas Petsch went into business for himself with the production of specially designed flower stoves. With foundries and mechanical engineering companies in Poland , the graduate engineer finally achieved his entrepreneurial breakthrough. After acquiring the naming rights to the Münch brand , Petsch founded Münch Motorrad Technik GmbH in 1997. With this he developed the world's most powerful production motorcycle to date, the Mammut 2000 . Due to the high costs, the production of the 260 hp machine was discontinued after 15 copies and an investment volume of approx. 10 million euros.

Münch Mammut 2000

As managing director of the art + form group of companies, Thomas Petsch is also involved in the field of solar energy and electromobility . He was instrumental in the development of SunCarrier , a tracking system for tracking solar systems.

Between 2008 and 2012, Petsch and his team developed the electrically powered Münch TTE-1 road racing motorcycles and the successor model TTE-2. On these machines, his Münch Racing GmbH with the drivers Matthias Himmelmann and Katja Poensgen won several world championship titles in the driver and designer ratings of the two international road racing championships for electrically powered motorcycles in 2010, 2011 and 2012: TTXGP The eGrandPrix and FIM e-Power International Championship of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme .

One year before his death, Petsch first worked as a hotelier. In May 2016 he opened his Baltic Sea manor in Klein-Strömkendorf, where his Münch motorcycle collection has been on display since then.

literature

  • Siegfried Rauch, Frank Rönicke: Men and motorcycles - a century of German motorcycle development. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-02947-7 , pp. 102-111.
  • Erik Meesters: With heart and soul. Münch by Meesters Foundation, NL-7231 AE Warnsveld 2013, ISBN 978-90-821002-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Petsch died. August 8, 2017, accessed March 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nerves in the oven . In: DER SPIEGEL , June 30, 2003; accessed on May 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ a + f places a major “SunCarrier” order in Italy worth millions. September 17, 2009, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ "Electrosport is the future". In: www.kues-magazin.de. KÜS Magazin, April 2, 2013, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Ostsee manor house. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Petsch, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The mammoth man
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2017
Place of death Wismar