Walther Isendahl

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Walther August Georg Johann Isendahl (born January 31, 1877 in Frankenstein , Silesia, † 1950 ) was a German engineer and specialist writer for motor vehicles and automotive engineering.

Life

The son of Theodor Isendahl and Wilhelmine, b. Bülow, attended the secondary school in Neisse and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin. On November 16, 1905, he married Emmy Müller, a merchant's daughter from Neisse, with whom he had the children Charlotte and Herbert (* 1909). In 1918 he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Holsteinische Str. 21.

Working in the automotive industry since 1898, he was also known as "a well-known motorboatman, winner of many trophies in Germany". 1900–1903 he was editor of the Motorwagen magazine , 1905–1912 editor-in-chief of the Allgemeine Automobilzeitung and the magazine Das Motorboot . In 1912 he founded the magazine Motor with Gustav Braunbeck , whose chief editor he was 1913-1916 and 1934/35. He has also written for Auto und Wirtschaft , The Motor , Dienst am Auto , The Yacht and Stoewer Magazine .

During the First World War, as a member of the staff, he headed the technical department of the Imperial Motorboat Corps.

He then went into business for himself as a manufacturer of Wisco carburetors, initially for liquid fuels. He then turned to the gasification of (low-tar) solid fuels in motor vehicles and founded the Wisco vehicle gas generators Grau, Isendahl & Co. Kg in Berlin-Halensee, of which he was the technical director. After the Second World War, the company was rebuilt in Beeskow : The company started on December 8, 1945. "Dr.-Ing. Herbert Isendahl in Beeskow granted power of attorney ”. The Brandenburg state government commissioned him in 1947 to develop a tug with a wood gas engine. When Herbert left the company in December 1948, his wife Irmgard, b. Schmidt, as a commandant. On August 10, 1950, the company Wisco was deleted from the commercial register in Beeskow.

  • Opel P4 with Wisco gas generator type BLO

  • Opel Kadett with Wisco gas generator type BLO

Publications

  • The explosion engine; 1901
  • Technical pocket dictionary (German, English, French); 1902
  • with Theodor Lehmbeck: calculation, construction and manufacture of automobile engines; Volume 1, 1908
  • with Hermann Dorner: aircraft engines; 1912
  • Automobile sports calendar; 1906
  • Automobile and automobile sport; 2 volumes, 1908
  • Aircraft engines. Construction and Treatment, Volume 1, 1913
  • Report on the national flight donation; 1913
  • Boat engines. Construction, installation and treatment; 1915
  • Internal combustion engines (textbook, volume 1)
  • Motor yachts; Volume 1, 1917
  • Classic motor yachts: setup and handling; Bremen: Salzwasser-Verl., 2009
  • The Art of Driving Well !; 1931

literature

  • Who's who among living authors of older nations; 1932; P. 215
  • LG Pine, Edward Martell, Alberta Lawrence: Who was who among English and European authors, 1931–1949; 1978; P. 748
  • Who is it ?; 1911, p. 659
  • Die Technik, Volume 5, Verlag Technik, 1950, p. 299
  • Herbert Isendahl: Development and investigation of a high-performance vehicle gas generator ; 1941
  • Herbert Isendahl: Wisco vehicle gas generator for anthracite and smoldering coke and electric heating fans ; 1944
  • Herbert Isendahl: Wisco gas generator system type BLO for brown coal briquette and wood ; 1947

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death list of sports journalists - created around 1952 (PDF). rainer-doerry.de. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette of the State of Brandenburg, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Isendahl, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isendahl, Walther August Georg Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and specialist writer for motor vehicles and automotive engineering
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1950