Julius Pintsch

Julius Carl Friedrich Pintsch ( born January 6, 1815 in Berlin, † January 20, 1884 in Prince Walde ) was a German master plumber and entrepreneur. According to him, the Pintsch gas system and the Pintsch buoy is named. 1878, the honorary title of Royal Prussian Kommerzienrat he was awarded. After Julius Pintsch the Pintschstraße in Berlin- Friedrichshain and Julius Pintsch ring was named in Fürstenwalde.

Training and self-employment

Julius Pintsch completed until 1833 a plumber teaching. As a journeyman he went to an old custom on the wanderings and was three years in Dresden. Back home in Berlin, Pintsch worked for five years at the company Koeppen & Wenke, a lamp and Lackierwarenfabrik. He put in the time from the master's examination at the Berlin plumber guild and founded on April 26, 1843 at Stralauer 4th place in Berlin- Friedrichshain in a basement room its own little workshop.

The city of Berlin had decided to take the time to build its own gas supply, and erected in this part of another gasworks at Stralauer place, so close to the workshop of Julius Pintsch. As a result, he received from the Berlin gas works Gasag repair orders and came this way early with the Gas Technology in contact. Many of the expensive imported from England up to that equipment were in need of repair, so that was natural for Julius Pintsch the idea to produce better fittings and apparatus. In 1847 he presented a carefully constructed gas meter of their own design.

Ascent to the industrialists

1848 acquired Julius Pintsch the house Stralauer Platz 6/7, and built a factory. However, it took several years before the Berlin municipal authorities could decide to give him a 1851 contract for 50 gas meter. The superior quality of these devices then led to additional orders from other cities and even from abroad. The need was immense, because the gas meter were a necessary prerequisite for the installation of gas lighting in private homes.

The order situation developed in the following years so positive that Pintsch 1863 was able to open a larger factory in Andreasstraße 73. He first employed 60 workers and dropped the first extension the foundation for the steep rise of the company. Branches were to better care for customers in the provinces in the years 1866 and 1867 set up in Dresden in Wroclaw. From 1867/1868 also underwater mines were produced. In Berlin, Andreas Road 71-73, resulted in a five-storey office and production building. In GDR times, resided in the imposing building of the Berlin VEB vehicle equipment, producing equipment for rail vehicles. Since 1997, the Grade II listed building is unused.

The progressive spread of gas lighting was soon to pay to use this form of lighting as a replacement for the existing to date paraffin or stearin and the Rüböllampen in railway carriages, the thoughts. After many attempts succeeded the firm Julius Pintsch produce a product made from animal and vegetable fats oil gas, which was an appropriate light source. Without sacrificing its luminosity, the gas oil could be pressed so as to obtain a sufficient supply on the basis of the relatively small reservoir. An additional advantage of the gas oil was fed so that a flame only half of the required gas such as a hydrocarbon gas flame.

The first experiments took place in the late 1860s. Due to the war 1870/71 but they had to be interrupted. After they had but the gas tanks, pipelines, and especially the pressure regulator designed such that the requirements corresponded to hard use everyday were provided in 1871 as the first car of the Lower Silesian - märkische railway with such a gas lighting. The production of gas lighting in railroad cars found in 1924 by the railroad accident from Bellinzona to an abrupt end. Here scorched 15 travelers in a vehicle equipped with Pintsch products train.

In 1872, a light bulb factory in Fiirstenwalde was built in 1936 and had approximately 12,000 employees.

Also, steam heating systems for railway wagons and - unique in Europe - Gasglühlichtbrenner were produced. To cope with the increasing number of large orders, the adjacent property and the adjacent railway arches was involved and finally in 1872 a branch in the forest Prince Andrew built in the street. In 1890 this was extended to the lightbulb factory Gebrüder Pintsch; 1884 came yet added a branch factory in Frankfurt -Bockenheim.

Another important branch of production were illuminated by gas light buoys. 1877, the first Pintsch Light Buoy was designed in the Kronstadt bay. In 1908 there were 2396 so-called " Pintsch buoys " on the coasts and waterways of all the world's oceans. Also, the Suez Canal was first secured with 105 Pintsch buoys, so that the passage at night was not possible.

Drawing of railway cars from 1895 with gas lighting of Julius Pintsch

Drawing of the dining cars from 1895 with gas lighting of Julius Pintsch

Light buoys building the company Julius Pintsch, Berlin- Fiirstenwalde German Museum of Technology Berlin

The brightest lighthouse Greifswald Oie of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1911-1914 received a new lantern house of the company Pintsch

Pintschstraße in Berlin- Friedrichshain named after Julius Pintsch

A Pintsch plant in Austria produced even airplanes. The best-known machine was the " Julius Pintsch AG Vienna SWALLOW II"; she flew in the interwar period in the Austrian Air Force with the ID " OE -TAA ".

Julius Pintschs sons Richard (1840-1919), Oskar (1844-1912), Julius (1847-1912) and Albert (1858-1920) led the family continued after his death. The privately held company survived the stock market crisis of the recession years from 1873 to 1895, without prejudice, and in 1907 became the company in Berlin, Fiirstenwalde and Frankfurt in a corporation, the Julius Pintsch AG, converted with registered capital of 18 million marks.

Still exists as the successor company PINTSCH PARTICULARS TO APPEAR BV as one of the leading manufacturers of switch heaters and safety systems in maritime transport technology. In 1994, she was created by the PINTSCH BAMAG drive and Traffic Engineering GmbH, Dinslaken and the SINUS PARTICULARS TO APPEAR BV, Zeist. Today, the company is headquartered in Maarssen, Netherlands, with a subsidiary in Dinslaken.

Family

Julius Pintschs son Oskar and his wife Helene Pintsch (1857-1923) donated in 1905 to cripple children's curative and care club for Berlin -Brandenburg, Berlin - Zehlendorf, the Oskar- Helene-Heim opened for healing and education frail children in 1914. Until its merger with the Behring Hospital, it has served as a hospital for almost 100 years.

Pintsch family has erected on the St. George cemetery at the Greifswald street in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district an imposing Doric temple as a tomb.