Traugott Ertel

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Traugott Leberecht von Ertel (born  September 29, 1778 in Oberforchheim near Freiberg ; †  February 8, 1858 in Munich ) was a German measuring instrument maker and entrepreneur .

Life

The young Traugott Ertel, initially trained as a blacksmith , learned the craft of precision mechanic and instrument maker. In 1804 he joined the " Mathematical Workshop " founded two years earlier by Georg von Reichenbach in Munich's Westend as a master . Von Reichenbach developed and manufactured astronomical and geodetic instruments here together with his partners Joseph Liebherr and Joseph von Utzschneider . For a time Joseph von Fraunhofer was also an employee of the company. In 1804 the company was renamed the "Mathematical and Mechanical Institute" .

Meridian circle instrument from the precision engineering workshop of Traugott Ertel (Munich, 1825)

After Ertel became a partner in Reichenbach's institute in 1815, he transferred all shares and thus the entire company to him on May 16, 1821. Ertel strategically realigned it and focused production on high-quality surveying instruments such as theodolites and meridian circles  (picture) . In 1834 he renamed the company “T. Ertel & Sohn ”.

Traugott Leberecht von Ertel died in 1858, highly regarded and awarded many prizes. His grave is in the Altes Südfriedhof in Munich. He left a well-known company with around a hundred employees to his son Georg. In 1890 August Diez bought all shares in the company, which existed as the Ertel factory for precision mechanics at the original location (northwest of the corner of Westendstrasse and Barthstrasse) until 1944, when it burned out completely after a bombing on April 25, 1944. After the war, the plant was temporarily moved to a new location in Munich's Kuglmüllerstraße before it was relocated from Munich to Puchheim on June 1, 1957 , where it existed until bankruptcy in 1984.

literature

  • Rainer Heer: Biographies of manufacturers of geodetic measurement technology . In alphabetical order, content without claim to completeness. ( Geodetic Institute Hannover [PDF; accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  • Carl R. Preyß: From Reichenbach's workshop to the Ertel factory for precision mechanics 1802–1962 . Ed .: Ertel-Werk f. Precision mechanics, on the occasion of d. 160 years Existence. Munich 1962, DNB  453848354 , OCLC 73648044 .
  • Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind:  Ertel, Traugott Leberecht von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 331 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Dreher: From Reichenbach's workshop to the Ertel factory in Puchheim - location history of a glorious company. Brochure, p. 7, stadtarchiv-puchheim.de (PDF; 5.0 MB), accessed on May 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ Werner Dreher: From Reichenbach's workshop to the Ertel factory in Puchheim - location history of a glorious company. Brochure, p. 10, stadtarchiv-puchheim.de (PDF; 5.0 MB), accessed on May 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ suedfriedhof-muenchen.de , accessed on June 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Werner Dreher: From Reichenbach's workshop to the Ertel factory in Puchheim - location history of a glorious company. Brochure, p. 7, stadtarchiv-puchheim.de (PDF; 5.0 MB), accessed on May 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ Werner Dreher: From Reichenbach's workshop to the Ertel factory in Puchheim - location history of a glorious company. Brochure, p. 13, stadtarchiv-puchheim.de (PDF; 5.0 MB), accessed on June 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ertel, Traugott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ertel, Traugott Leberecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German measuring instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberforchheim
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1858
Place of death Munich