Ulrich Tuchel

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Ulrich Tuchel (born August 7, 1904 in Berlin ; † January 29, 1986 in Heilbronn ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur . In the 1930s he developed the Tuchel connector named after him .

Life

After studying electrical engineering , Tuchel became a production engineer in 1932 and later chief designer in central technology at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft in Berlin. In order to facilitate the exchange of radio devices, he developed a self-cleaning contact, which became known as the "Tuchel contact". The technology was used on a large scale for the first time at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and was introduced in all German radio studios in 1943. In the early 1940s, Tuchel went into business for himself and relocated production to Eisenberg in Thuringia due to air raids .

Tuchel's first company headquarters in Heilbronn's Bismarckstrasse

After the end of the Second World War, Tuchel moved to Heilbronn in Württemberg in 1947, where his wife was born. In 1948 in the former officers' mess of the Heilbronn barracks , he founded the company Tuchel-Kontakt , which manufactured technology for radio stations. In 1958 the company with around 500 employees moved into a building in Böckingen . The company advertised the reliability of the contacts in the 1960s with the statement that a Tuchel plug also worked without interference outside of the earth's atmosphere, referring to the emerging space travel .

In 1963, Tuchel received the gold diesel medal. On his 60th birthday in 1964, the Working Group for Electronic Music at the TU Berlin , to which Tuchel had donated studio equipment, performed the composition Morse code by Manfred Krause and Rüdiger Rüfer in Heilbronn. On January 1, 1967, Tuchel sold his company to the American Amphenol Corporation . He left the company and continued to work as a consultant.

In 1968, Tuchel founded Conectron GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin , which developed small electric motors. Tuchel collected art and testified in 1970 as a witness in the trial of the so-called “Munich picture fraud”, in which a forged painting by an old master from Verona was sold to him for 750,000 marks. In 1986 he died in Heilbronn.

literature

  • Hubert Weckbach : “Safe outside the earth's atmosphere - Ulrich Tuchel”, in: ders .: Heilbronner Köpf , Heilbronn: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 1998, pp. 142–148.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and death according to the entry of Ulrich Tuchel in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn city archive , contemporary history collection, call number ZS-10642
  2. ↑ 1963-1964. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Kilian Gassner: Rubens rolled . Munich image fraud in court. In: The time . tape 25 , no. 44 , 1970 ( zeit.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Loud Muckis . Fancy shops. In: Der Spiegel . tape 21 , no. 50 , December 4, 1967, pp. 106–110 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Tuchel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1986
Place of death Heilbronn