Walter Thiele (inventor)
Walter Thiele (born February 16, 1921 ) invented over 1600 more or less useful things; he became a millionaire with his salmon sack .
Life
In the mid-1960s, the Wienerwald restaurant chain had artificial parrots developed as advertising material, which croaked “Today the kitchen stays cold, we're going to the Wienerwald”. The inventor of this parrot was Walter Thiele, who implanted a battery-operated miniature record player in a parrot doll . Soon, however, Wienerwald boss Friedrich Jahn no longer liked the parrots and scrapped them.
Thiele's attempts to offer his parrots at inventors' fairs also failed. As also on the Brussels Exhibition of Inventions in 1968, no one was interested in it, he tore frustrated the parrot on and put the turntable with a plate with laughter in an old sock. People suddenly thought that was funny. In order to perfect this thing, initially called “salmon sock”, Thiele invited people to laugh. He offered the winner, a tax officer from Nuremberg , 1000 marks in hand or 10 pfennigs per sack. The officer played it safe and took the flat rate. The idea did not go down well in Germany at first: The inventor had to go abroad and applied for a patent in Japan . So the salmon sack came onto the market in Germany a few years later. Over 120 million pieces of this salmon sack have been sold since 1968. Later he invented the " Berlin air in cans".
When he was 75 years old, he announced publicly and worldwide that in the event of his death he would look for a husband for his wife 46 years younger than him and for his property.
In 2002, when he was 81 years old, he sold the rights to a “puncture scooter” for € 2500, which was supposed to avoid changing wheels in the event of a flat tire.
literature
- Walter Thiele: Earning money with inventions. Insider tips from salmon sack millionaire Walter Thiele . 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2418-7 .
- Walter Thiele: The millionaire maker . Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-930852-00-4 .
Web links
- Scooter instead of spare wheel . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 4, 2002
- Article with photo ( memento from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at WDR
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth from private (from Ralph-Michael Tengler ) information material from Walter Thiele.
- ↑ Karin Schmidl: Scooters instead of spare wheels. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 4, 2002, accessed June 9, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Thiele, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1921 |