Wilhelm Teubert

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Wilhelm Teubert (* 1885 in Magdeburg ; † October 1944 ) was a German shipbuilding engineer , concrete ship builder and builder of the first German wind turbine .

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Wilhelm Teubert received his doctorate in 1918 at the Technical University of Dresden and lived with his family in Minden from 1919 , where he headed the newly established Minden mechanical engineering office . The authority was responsible, among other things, for the state tug monopoly on the Mittelland Canal , on which at that time still the tug navigation with barges predominated.

In 1920 he wrote the standard work “Der Flussschiffbau” and, due to the lack of steel after the First World War, he advocated the introduction of composite construction in shipbuilding . As a result of these considerations Teubert built in the 19020er years with the Minden reinforced concrete yard Aktiengesellschaft (Mewag) along the ship K 5 as the hitherto biggest iron concrete ship . The shipyard was founded after the First World War to manufacture concrete ships in series. The K 5 was an 820-ton barge, 67 meters long and 8.5 meters wide, which the Minden Towing Authority had commissioned. On August 3, 1921, the ship was launched. It made two trips on the Mittelland Canal to transport coal from the Ruhr area . Already at the bunkers of the coal the ship got holes and cracks. In the winter of 1921/22, ice floes on the Dortmund-Ems Canal destroyed the ship's side , so that the ship sank. After another concrete ship built by MEWAG was damaged on a lock wall in Minden during the first voyage, the Hanover towing authority ruled in 1922 that reinforced concrete barges were not safe to operate. Teubert later went to Mannheim, where he applied for a patent in 1926 with the engineer and later Nazi economic ideologist Franz Lawaczeck . In 1930 Teubert went to Berlin . There he submitted 14 patents for the use of wind power.

Wilhelm Teubert was a supporter of National Socialism . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . After presenting his wind power plans to Reich Minister Hermann Göring , Teubert was able to set up a wind turbine with an output of five kilowatts in Düsseldorf in 1937 . It is considered the first German wind turbine with rotating blades. The plant only lasted about three months. A Teubert wind power project with Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen failed after a few years. Shortly after his son fell on the Eastern Front , Teubert died in 1944 at the age of 59; according to an obituary of a nervous disorder.

Works

  • Advantages and limitations of using screw tow steamers on free streams , Berlin, 1917 (dissertation)
  • Reinforced concrete shipbuilding during the reconstruction of our merchant fleet , Berlin, 1920
  • River shipbuilding , Leipzig, 1920
  • Luzon and Ceylon , short documentary, 1927
  • The world in the cross section of traffic , Berlin, 1928

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Canal shipping. Concrete barges made in Minden - shipwreck of a fixed idea Lecture at the technology salon of the University of Hanover on October 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Published on filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Teubert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipbuilding engineer, concrete shipbuilder and builder of the first German wind turbine
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH October 1944