Hugo (* 18. July 1866 in corner; "† 12. March 1926 in Aschaffenburg) was a German engineer, inventor and an engine farmer, whose name is connected today particularly with pioneer achievements in the building of diesel engines and with the label name of the agricultural tractors.

Biografie

Hugo buildup as a son of the factory hand and gatekeeper Gustav and its Mrs. Ida, geb. earthling, in the town stove corner and on 23 September 1866 on the name Carl Julius Gustav Hugo was baptized there. Its father deceased already 1869 with a Eisenbahnunfall.

The young Hugo visited the royal vocational school in the neighbour city Hagen, which is come up into the today's professional school south Westphalia. As an engineer busy it itself particularly with combustion engines and their advancement.

Subsequently, moved to Magdeburg, created there its own production, built different combustion engines and announced altogether 12 utility models and patents; the most well-known carried the title "for secondary act gas air motor with burn of the ignition mixture in special area and introduction the hot gases to the air-filled actuator ".

To several economically little successful productions it changed 1899 for the next nearly three years as upper engineer and a chief designer to Rudolf Diesel to the mechanical engineering factory Augsburg, from which the today's MAN AG came out. There it designed among other things a four-stroke engine.

1903 published its extensive practice manual to the engine construction.

In the year after went to Munich and based in February 1904 together with Dr. Carl von Linde and Dr. Georg von Krauss the engine company ltd.; the patent for a modern combustion engine brought the name giver into the new company. The manufacturing was shifted there to the year 1907 after Aschaffenburg into again established buildings, not least, in order to be able to use the Main as favorable route of transportation.

At the beginning of two-cylinder Diesel machines up to 300 HP, equal oil engines, gas force plants and partly even motorcycles were manufactured. A principal client for the engines was at that time already the society for Linde's ice machines (the today's lime tree AG), which needed power supply units for their refridgerators and acquired 1908 first portions of the engines GmbH. Starting from 1912 also three and four-cylinder engines up to 600 HP were sold.

In the First World War civilian production and it were stopped motor vehicles and airplane rotors as well as grey cast iron projectiles were manufactured.

After end of war acquired the citizens of Berlin moorland culture force plow GmbH and produced increases force plows to moorland cultivation, beside it also engines for inland waterway crafts and small diesel engines. After economic difficulties lime tree 1925 increased its portions of the enterprise.

1926 died the secret Kommerzienrat Dr. Ing. e.h. Hugo after an operation at the age of 59 years in Aschaffenburg. It was buried on the Aschaffenburger old part of town cemetery; the burial place stands under monument protection. Its Mrs ennobling, geb. Benecken, deceased in the year in Colonel village, following on it.

Three years after Hugo death - to the twenty five-year old existence of the company - the GmbH on tendency of Carl von Linde was taken over completely by lime tree. Production concentrated starting from the 1930er years increasingly on tractors and in particular the label name successfully introduced to the range of the agriculture machines still to end of the 1960er years was resumed. Approximately 100,000 agricultural tractors were brought from 1934 to 1969 on the market. Only 1991 were painted the name from the trade register.

Works

wrote an technology-historically meaning book beside some essays, scientific papers and the patent specifications also. It appeared after the 1903 in several, revised and extended editions into the 1920er years and was considered at that time as standard work in the engine construction. It has over 1.000 illustrations and several hundred sides.

• Hugo Sketching and calculation of the internal combustion engines and force gas plants. Manual for technical designers and designer of gas and oil prime movers. Springer publishing house, Berlin. 1903.

Literature

• Wolfgang Kessler, Gerhard Hugo - here an unknown quantity, but important son of the city stove corner. In: Herdecker of sheets. Number 23 (January 2006). P. 8-10.
• Walter bag: tractors & engines. Podszun publishing house, Brilon. 2006. ISBN 3-86133-190-X
• Walter bag: All tractors of drive and to . o.O. 1991. ISBN 3-92607-105-2
• Walter Head wind. Memories of a life between economics and university, saddle and sail. (with illustrations by Werner Schrenk) they ring publishing house, Bonn. 1994. ISBN 3-92315-418-6

Related links

• aschaffenburg.de - Portrait
• linde.de - engine company

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