Wilhelm von Breithaupt
Wilhelm Ritter von Breithaupt (born September 5, 1809 in Kassel , † March 26, 1889 there ) was a German officer .
Life
Breithaupt joined the Hessian artillery service in 1825 and was distinguished early on by inventiveness and scientific achievements. As a captain , he invented the construction of the ring-shaped time fuse in 1854 , which allowed an almost unlimited time monitoring by circular rotation of a member in the time fuse. This rotary time fuse was originally designed for shrapnel ammunition, but after some adjustments it could also be used for rifled guns . The Breithaupt time fuse was introduced in Kurhessen in 1854 and was also used in Austria from 1859 onwards . Armstrong also applied the principle to the shrapnel of the British Army.
In 1859, Breithaupt joined the Austrian artillery as a major and transferred his fuse design to the rifled field gun , where he designed the multi-tier fuse to achieve longer fuse times . He also dealt with the attachment of fuses to the bottom of elongated projectiles. In 1862 Breithaupt was raised to the personal, non-hereditary nobility , then left the service as a lieutenant colonel in 1866 and has lived in his homeland ever since.
Wilhelm von Breithaupt belongs, like Georg August Breithaupt and Wilhelm Breithaupt , to the old Kassel inventor and precision mechanic family, which has been running the precision engineering company Breithaupt since 1762 .
Wilhelm von Breithaupt died on March 26, 1889 in Kassel.
Honors
In Kassel, the Breithauptstrasse was named after him.
Fonts
- Systematics of the detonator . Kassel (1868)
- The explosive projectile fire . Kassel (1877)
literature
- Breithaupt Wilhelm von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 111.
- Paul Adolf Kirchvogel: Breithaupt, Wilhelm Friedrich Ferdinand Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 575 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Additional street signs for the city of Kassel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breithaupt, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breithaupt, Wilhelm Ritter von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1889 |
| Place of death | kassel |