Johann Sigmund Schuckert
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| Born | October 18, 1846 Nuremberg |
| Died | September 17, 1895 Wiesbaden |
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| Honors | In Nuremberg (Eibach) there is named a school after Sigmund Schuckert . |
Johann Sigmund Schuckert (October 18, 1846 in Nuremberg - September 17, 1895 in Wiesbaden) was an electrical engineer and the founder of (after 1903 Siemens-Schuckert). He was a pioneer of industrialization in Nuremberg and for the electrical industry a pioneer of international status.
Sigmund Schuckert was born in 1846, the son of a Master Barrel Maker. At elementary school, he was already familiarizing himself, through laboratory experiments, with the properties of electricity. Sigmund refused to follow in the footsteps of his father, becoming instead a precision mechanic. With the help of his teacher, he managed to obtain a mechanical apprenticeship with Friedrich Heller, Nuremberg's oldest electric company. In the meantime he pursued his hobby, telegraphy, at the same time, through self-study, deepening his knowledge of arithmetic, geometry, physics and chemistry.
Upon completion of his apprenticeship, as a journeyman Sigmund Schuckert worked successively in Munich, Stuttgart, Hannover and Berlin where he worked with Siemens & Halske. Essentially, he was keen to meet the best professionals of the top companies, to expand his knowledge and to gain insights from those with whom he worked, while developing his own ideas.
Importantly, Scuckert now spent several years in America. Emigrants whom he met in Hamburg triggered a growing urge to go to the United States himself. While he was working in the electrical department of the Optical equipment business headed up by Albert Krage, Sigmund Schuckert learned English. In 1869 he began his journey. From New York he traveled via Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, ending up in New Jersey, where he worked in the telegraph factory of Thomas Edison. The rough atmosphere in the factory and the primitive working conditions soon drove him back to New York, and in 1873 he returned to Germany.
In 1873 Sigmund Schuckert rented a small workshop in Nuremberg's "Schwabenmühle" quarter in Nuremberg, specialising initially in the repair of American Singer sewing machines, then a new technology of which hardly anyone else had experience. The recent move by Siemens into dynamo-generators production inspired him to greater ambition, however. In 1874 he negotiated for the rights to manufacture dynamos using the same principals as the Siemens ones, and from 1875 he was successfully producing and selling his own generators.
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