Carl Eugen being enough (* 9 October 1833 in Cologne; "† 2 October 1895 with Elsdorf/Rheinland) was an entrepreneur, engineer and inventor and considerably involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertaler suspension railway.

Life and work

Eugen being enough is the most important son of the sugar manufacturer Johann Jakob being enough. J.J. Langen had made itself 1845 with the assumption of the sugar factory Schleussner and tail independent. It led the company with his sons Karl Otto, Gustav and Emil as "J.J. being enough & sons ". 1858 occurred Eugen being enough for its brother Emil the company.

1864 became Eugen being enough on Nikolaus August Otto attentively, which worked in its spare time on the improvement from the Frenchman Lenoir invented atmospheric gas engine. The technically trained Eugen being enough recognized the potential of of Otto development and already created one month after the meeting the first engine factory of the world, "N.A. Otto Cie". On that its improved gas engine the gold medal received Paris world exhibition of 1867.

After this first factory failure went, being enough in Cologne Deutz with outside capital created a new company for the building of gas engines, the current Deutz AG, which long time admits as Humboldt Deutz works (KHD) was. Otto debt of 18 000 Talern take over Eugen be enough. In order to secure production, being enough got the mechanics Wilhelm May brook and God-dear Daimler for nine years to Cologne. Here Otto could lead its old idea four-stroke engine to production-ready ones.

1870 created a being enough with friends the company Pfeifer & Langen, one to sugar factory existing today.

Also on the range of the building of rail-mounted vehicles being enough was successful: He was joint owner and engineer of the Cologne railroad car and Triebwagenbauers Van of the Zypen & Charlier. In this characteristic being enough became generally accepted suspension railway on 28 December 1894 with its suspension railway project against competitors and became thereby the father and inventor of the Wuppertaler.

Nearly at the same time it was responsible for the building of the suspension railway Dresden. It concerns contrary to 13,3 km is enough for Wuppertaler valley distance in Dresden a mountaineering rope suspension railway, which is long 274 m. It drives likewise today still. The designation suspension railway comes from being enough: "A system of the hanging cars. I baptized the thing "suspension railway". "

Eugen being enough died on 2 October 1895 on its countryseat house Etzweiler with Elsdorf at the consequences of a fish poisoning, which he had tightened himself with the inauguration celebration of the northeast ship canal. Its last is in a family grave on Cologne Melaten cemetery.

Today a school and a road are designated after Eugen being enough in Wuppertal, equally there is a Eugen long road in Cologne. A monument set the city Cologne for it 1990, when it perpetuated it as Steinfigur on Cologne advice tower, with an engine piston in the hands and a sugar luggage crate and a Zuckerhut to its feet. Was arranged the figure of Cologne sculptors Theo the Heiermann.

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• Wuppertaler suspension railway
• Pfeifer & being enough sugar enterprise Pfeifer & being enough

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