Wilhelm Mathiesen

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Wilhelm Mathiesen (born January 14, 1859 in Hamburg ; † June 14, 1936 ) was a German technician and inventor who is considered a pioneer of the carbon arc lamp .

Life

Kandem signet by Körting & Mathiesen , approx. 1920

Körting's father came from Norway and ran a wood turner's workshop in Hamburg, which mainly carried out ship work. The mother came from Stade .

Wilhelm Mathiesen left school prematurely to begin a commercial apprenticeship at a Hamburg retailer in 1873 . Because his interests were, however, more in the technical areas, he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic and lathe operator at a small hamburger machine factory and attended the Commercial School in Mechanical Engineering. He first worked in a machine factory in Hamburg.

From 1882 to 1887 he worked at Schäffer & Budenberg in Magdeburg . Here he was able to deepen his technical knowledge scientifically. It was here that he made his first inventions.

He learned from a Hamburg friend that the industrial valve factory Schumann & Koeppe, founded in 1882 (from 1919 Schumann & Co .; from 1954 VEB Industriearmaturen und Apparatebau Leipzig, IAL) was looking for a foreman in Plagwitz near Leipzig. Although this company was mechanically not as well equipped as the one in Magdeburg, he accepted the position despite initial reservations. Here he met Max Körting .

In October 1889 they founded in Leipzig Inselstraße the electrotechnical factory of Körting Mathiesen and with specialty on fittings for electrical lighting , later renamed Körting & Mathiesen or shortly K & M . They moved to Blumengasse and in 1893 to the new building in Leutzsch. In 1899 Mathiesen brought out the advertising brochure Das Bogenlicht and its application .

In 1901 the company, which had previously been run in the legal form of a general partnership , was converted into a stock corporation. The original share capital of 2,050,000 marks was increased in two steps after the First World War during the period of inflation to 6 million marks; the second increase took place in 1922 to expand and modernize the factory facilities in Leutzsch, with a significant contribution from the Leipzig banking house August Lieberoth . After the currency stabilized in 1924, the share capital was converted to 3 million Reichsmarks . Wilhelm Mathiesen sat on the company's board of directors until the 1930s . Max Körting was sole director in the 1920s, and Fritz Körting supported him in the 1930s.

As early as 1914, a residential street in Leutzsch was named after Wilhelm Mathiesen. In 1918 he was given the honorary title of Royal Saxon Commerce Councilor , and in 1922 the Technical University of Karlsruhe awarded him an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing. E. h. ).

Fonts

  • Studies on the electric arc, especially on the one under pressure. E. Haberland, Leipzig 1921.

literature

  • Journal for technical physics , 6th year 1925, p. 490.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.becklaser.de/hbeng/wmathiesen1.html
  2. ↑ Kandem Lamps - History. www.kandem.de, accessed on December 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932, Volume 2, p. 2295 f.
personal data
SURNAME Mathiesen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technician and inventor, pioneer of the carbon arc lamp
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1936