Carl H. Ziese, (Moscow, 2 July 1848 - 5 December 1917) was a German mechanical engineer, railway machinery manufacturer and shipbuilder of
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
n origin. Ziese was the son of
Alexandr Ziese, the proprietor of a great machinery workshop. After the death of his father he went with his mother to the
Hanseatic
The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=German language, Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Norther ...
town of
Kiel
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Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...
, improving his workshop experience on mechanical engineering, traveling to England and Scotland and studying
Naval Architecture
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and Mechanical Engineering at the Arts and Industries Academy of Berlin.
In 1873, aged 25, he married a daughter of
Ferdinand Schichau
Ferdinand Gottlob Schichau (30 January 1814 – 23 January 1896) was a German mechanical engineer and businessman.
Schichau was born in Elbing, West Prussia (modern Elbląg, Poland) to a smith and iron worker. He studied engineering in Ber ...
, (1814–1896),a railway engines manufacturer and shipbuilder who has studied and visited prominent engineers in Berlin, and in England who had started his own company in
Elbing, a former
hanseatic town
The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label= Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German tow ...
, (modern Elbląg, Poland, in 1837.
He also built with his father in law a shipyard in
Pillau
Baltiysk (russian: Балти́йск; german: Pillau; Old Prussian: ''Pillawa''; pl, Piława; lt, Piliava; Yiddish: פּילאַווע, ''Pilave'') is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Ru ...
, (present-day
Baltijsk
Baltiysk (russian: Балти́йск; german: Pillau; Old Prussian: ''Pillawa''; pl, Piława; lt, Piliava; Yiddish: פּילאַווע, ''Pilave'') is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Ru ...
), near
Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...
, (East Prussia) (today
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and administr ...
).
They built in 1877 the first torpedo boat ever ordered for the Russian Navy.
His only daughter, née Hildegard Ziese, married Swedish Engineer Carl Carlson, taking over as
Hildegard Carlson the general running of the several thousand industrial workers from their shipyards and factories in what is now either Poland or the Russian Federation.
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1848 births
1917 deaths
Engineers from Moscow
Engineers from the Russian Empire
Inventors from the Russian Empire
19th-century German businesspeople
Engineers from Schleswig-Holstein
German mechanical engineers
19th-century German inventors
People from East Prussia