Walter Lippart

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Walter Lippart (born October 21, 1899 in Nuremberg , † October 3, 1962 in Stuttgart ) was a German mechanical engineer and industrialist.

Life

The son of mechanical engineer Gottlieb Matthias Lippart (1866–1930) studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich , where like his father he became a member of the Corps Cisaria . In 1923 he became Dr.-Ing. PhD.

He initially worked for the Süddeutsche Motoren-AG in Munich, owned by the brothers Albert, Gotthard and Rudolf Wielich, who had the new diesel combustion process and injection pumps and nozzles developed by Franz Xaver Lang . He gained experience with small diesel engines. In 1924 he traveled to Albert in Boston, where he worked for Sterling Engine Corp. should convert a marine gasoline engine into a diesel engine. It was there that he met Robert Bosch , whose interest in the high-speed diesel engine he was able to arouse.

He married Sigrid (1901–81), a daughter of Wolfgang Andreas Reuter , with whom he had a son and daughter Ruth (* 1925) who died early.

After the Wielich brothers had sold the shares in their company including Lang's patents to Robert Bosch AG , Lippart was employed by Bosch in 1925. After Lang's departure in 1926, he took over his position in diesel development and at the test field. With design manager Alfred Meyer (1881–1960), he built up the diesel equipment business and introduced the injection pump. In 1929 he became technical sales manager. At Kurt Schnauffer's suggestion, in 1934, together with test leader Hans Heinrich (* 1905), Fritz Nallinger and Hans Scherenberg from Daimler-Benz, he introduced fuel injection into aircraft gasoline engines in order to reduce their sensitivity to altitude and temperature. In 1945 he became technical director and was responsible for purchasing, production and the reconstruction of the companies. In 1950, as the successor to Fritz Honold (1882–1959), he was again head of sales and development. In 1956 he handed over development management to Robert Bosch jun. and took over the main technical management of sales for all products.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Lippart, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1962
Place of death Stuttgart