Wilhelm Kübler

Wilhelm Kübler

Wilhelm Kübler (born May 8, 1873 in Berlin , † June 4, 1919 in Dresden ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor who gained importance primarily as a high-voltage engineer .

The son of the philologist and grammar school director Otto Kübler and brother of the philologist and lawyer Bernhard Kübler first worked as an intern at Siemens & Halske in Berlin for one year after graduating from high school in 1890 , before he began studying at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . After graduating in 1895, he worked as an engineer for various Berlin companies (including again at Siemens & Halske). In 1902 he was appointed extraordinary (from 1905 full ) professor at the Technical University of Dresden . Until his death, he represented the fields of electrical engineering as well as lighting, power and rail systems. From 1903 to 1906 he was the publisher of the magazine " Elektro Bahnen", a magazine for the entire electrical transport system , from 1905 " Elektro Bahnen und Betriebe", a magazine for traffic and transportation .

Fonts

• The three-phase motor as a railway motor. Felix, Leipzig 1903. ( full text at archive.org )
• The supposed dangers of electrical companies. In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , ISSN  0374-1222 , Volume 7 (1906), pp. 197-263.
• The Heyland transmission. In: Elektro Kraftbetriebe und Bahnen , Volume 5 (1907), Issue 27, pp. 521-523.

literature

• H. Görges: Wilhelm Kübler †. In: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift (ETZ) , Volume 40 (1919), Issue 19, pp. 354 f.
• H. Görges: Wilhelm Kübler †. In: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society , Volume 22 (1921), p. 68 f.
• Helmut Mielert:  Kübler, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
• K. Vogt: Overview of the historical development of the TU Dresden. In: Elektrie, Scientific and Technical Journal of Electrical Engineering , Volume 33 (1979), Issue 2, pp. 77-80.