- Josef Schneider
"Josef Schneider is the name of two German electrical engineers, father and son. This article is about both. For a rower of the same name, see
Switzerland at the 1924 Summer Olympics ."Josef Schneider Senior
Josef Schneider Sr. (
May 29 ,1840 -March 14 ,1927 ) was the first producer ofelectricity inGermany and founded the Elektrizitätswerk Horb. He was born inBühlertann and died at the age of 87 in his hometownHorb am Neckar ,Baden-Württemberg .In 1890 Josef Schneider was granted a patent by royal warrant from the King of Württemberg to become the first German electricity producer. The next year, together with
Ernst Werner von Siemens , he made significant improvements to thedynamo . In 1892Germany saw its first electric light with the help of a steam turbine developed by Josef Schneider Sr. The first electricity was sold to theHohenzollern royal family. Two years later (1894), a fire destroyed the original generating plant, motivating construction of the first privatehydro-electric power plant in Horb am Neckar (Black Forest ). By 1912, he andOskar von Miller were the first to connect eleven cities in theStuttgart -Munich region to an electric grid using high-voltage lines. In 1922, he assisted in the development of the Voith-FrancisTurbine .1970s
In 1975, the family firm, Elektrizitätswerk Horb KG, was incorporated and granted an electricity monopoly for generation, transmission, and sale of electricity to southwestern
Baden-Württemberg . It continued to be owned by the Schneider family. In 1980 Josef Schneider Jr. helped to develop theOssberg -Streamturbine .chneider Power
The Elektrizitätswerk
Horb am Neckar KG was sold toEnBW (formerly, Energie Versorgung Schwaben) in 1985. Since 1998 the 4th generation of the Schneider Family has owned Schneider Power Inc. (TSXV:SNE), a publicly listed Company on the TSX Venture Exchange and one ofCanada s largest Windpower producers, with wind turbines operating inGermany ,USA , andCanada .In 2007, the Schneider family is planning to build the first North American offshore
Windpark in the Gulf of Maine,Nova Scotia ,Canada .ee also
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