Talk:Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
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was a German scientist and inventor gyroscope compass .
It designed 1907 the first a gyroscope compass, which was used for the first time 1908 on the German liner "Germany". Worked more reliably however the 1912 of it built multi-gyroscope compass, which was tested on the German battle cruiser "Moltke". In the year 1913 the first employment on a trading vessel, the German passenger liner " Imperator" took place. Anschuetz fights won 1915 a patent controversy to the gyroscope compass with Elmer Ambrose SPERRY , to which 1914 Albert Einstein had been consulted as consultants, and with whom both learned themselves to estimate. It began a friendship of many years with Einstein, which led to the fact that the latter accomplished many computations for the gyroscope compass for Anschuetz fights and visited it many years long in summer holidays in Kiel, whereby the sailing boat of Anschuetz played a central role. It succeeded to Anschuetz nearly to arrange for Einstein a chair to the Kieler Christian Albrechts university which in the long run because of the beginning of the 30's to the very brown professor shank failed.
After it "Anschuetz Zweikreisel Kugelkompass" designated developed Anschuetz fights 1927 . This compass served as basis of the today's gyroscope compass plants.
In Kiel Dr. Hermann Anschuetz fights created on 23 September 1905 the company Anschuetz & Co, whom it led until 1930, then transferred it its portions of the Carl Zeiss donation. Anschuetz fights undertook several forschungsreisen to the Mediterranean and into the arctic . It planned besides the undercrossing of the north pole with a submarine .
1922 acquired Anschuetz fights the lock Lautrach in the Unterallgaeu and let it recondition. It held here also from him selected scientists so-called "faculty meetings", so for instance with Karl von Frisch , Wilhelm Vienna , Richard Willstaetter , Albrecht Kossel , Arnold Sommerfeld and Albert Einstein .
DATE OF BIRTH 3. October 1872 DYING DATE 6. May 1931 DYING PLACE Munich