Franz Breisig

Franz Breisig ( born April 19, 1868 in Elberfeld, † April 12, 1934 in Berlin) was a senior engineer in the Telegraph Reichspostamt and a pioneer of telecommunications.

Life

Franz Breisig studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich and Bonn mathematics and physics. At his trial he was places each active member of the Catholic student associations in CT, in Berlin at the Askania (now KStV Askania Burgundia ) in Heidelberg when K.St.V. Palatia, in Munich at the Saxonia and in Bonn during K.St.V. Arminia. In 1892 he was research assistant in telegraph engineering office of the Reich Post Office in Berlin. He was also a teacher at the postal and telegraph school, which was founded for the training of officials for the Higher postal service. In 1903 he received the title of professor as a lecturer at the postal and telegraph school.

Until 1918 Breisig held as chief engineer Telegraph head of the scientific work of the telegraph - office trial. After that he was appointed to the Imperial post Ministry as Secret Postrat and lecturer Council ( Ministerial later ). After closure of the postal and telegraph school Breisig got in 1924 a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin and was appointed Honorary Professor. In 1933, he went into retirement.

Breisig telecommunications technology has decisive beeinflusst.1910 he invented an instrument for comparative measurements of electrical transmission systems ( step attenuator - attenuator ). 1921 Breisig coined the term " quadrupole ", a specific electro- technical system, which is one of the basics of electrical engineering.

Works

• About the importance of the line for the transmission of telephone currents; Reichsdruckerei Berlin, 1916
• Theoretical telegraphy. An application of Maxwell's electrodynamics processes in pipes and circuits; Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1924

As co-author:

• Encyclopaedia of electrical telecommunications; Berlin; Julius Springer, 1929