Fritz Fiedler

Fritz Fiedler ( born January 9, 1899 in Potsdam, † July 8, 1972 in Schliersee ) was a German engineer.

Life

After studying at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, he worked as a design engineer at the German Motor Works AG in Berlin -Spandau and in 1926 head of the design offices of Stoewer -Werke in Stettin.

As the successor of Paul Daimler, he took over at the end of 1929 Horch in Zwickau the post of chief designer. Fiedler's first development was the twelve-cylinder V-engine with horizontal ( "lying" ) valves ( SV - valve control) for the autumn of 1931 presented Horch 670 Den designed by Paul Daimler mid-1920s, eight-cylinder in-line engine with vertical shaft and two camshafts ( DOHC ) replaced Fiedler by a new one with a single camshaft.

Based on the V12 engine it began in 1931 with the construction of a V8 engine, which was cheaper to produce compared to the eight-cylinder in-line engines with OHC valve control. After switching to BMW Fiedler ( branch plant in Eisenach ) in the summer of 1932 Wernel K. Strobel took the new V8 for series production in 1933 with an initial capacity of 3 liters in the Horch 830 was use and later to 1943, inter alia, for the Unity of the car Wehrmacht was made.

At the BMW plant in Eisenach branch Fiedler spurred the development of the six-cylinder models BMW 326 and 335.

After the Second World War he worked from 1945 to 1947 in Bristol for the British BMW importer AFN Ltd.. ( Frazer Nash ). In 1949, he joined as a senior design engineer at Opel to Rüsselsheim. 1951 Fiedler returned back to BMW, where in the engine development in Munich he worked until 1968.