Wilhelm Uebe

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Wilhelm Uebe

Wilhelm Uebe (* 1857 ; † 1905 ) was a German merchant , chemist and entrepreneur . He developed the analog clinical thermometer in its current form.

Wilhelm Uebe was originally a businessman and traveler. He opened a drugstore at 19 Breiten Strasse in Zerbst , where he also sold clinical thermometers, among other things. Through visits to sanatoriums and through customer inquiries, he realized that the clinical thermometers used up to now could be improved by replacing the plaster stopper with which they were closed by melting the top end of the thermometer. As a result, the hygiene and use of the thermometer were significantly improved because it could now be sterilized. Since Uebe already had business relationships with glass manufacturers, he made use of these contacts and founded the Wilhelm Uebe - Special Factory for Medical and Chemical Thermometers in 1890 . Uebe received the Reich patent DRPM 25406 for its thermometers and had the thermometers manufactured in Langewiesen from 1892 . After the premises in the Breite Straße became too small, a move to the factory building in the Bahnhofstraße took place in 1900 61. In 1901 he had a glass inhaler in the shape of a cigar tip protected as a utility model .

For years, UEBE's medical thermometers have been the best-selling tools for self-diagnosis worldwide; The clinical thermometer came to Japan through Wilhelm Uebe. In 1893 Wilhelm Uebe presented the novel thermometer at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he was awarded two diplomas and two medals. After the protection period expired, Uebes invention was legally established as the standard. In 1905 production was relocated to factory buildings; Wilhelm Uebe died in the same year. His widow Anna Uebe took over the management of the company. As Uebe Medical, the company is still family-owned.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, I 454: Thermometerfabrik Wilhelm Uebe Zerbst , accessed on December 6, 2016
  2. ^ Ralf Günther: Tip made of glass . In: Sächsische Zeitung from October 25, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c 1st supplement to the Zerbster Extra Post: Forty Years of Anhalt Thermometers = Industry , July 6, 1935
  4. ↑ Pharmaceutisches Handelsblatt: Utility model , February 2, 1901 (PDF, 586 KB)
  5. ↑ Adolf Wermuth : Official report on the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 submitted by the Reich Commissioner. 2 volumes printed in the Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1894, entry no.4747
  6. ^ Helmut Rohm: Anhalt industry: The Chicago venture . In: Volksstimme of August 13, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Uebe, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, druggist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
DATE OF DEATH 1905