Rudolph Laver (19 July 1872 in
Castlemaine, Victoria – September 1946 in
Berlin
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) was an Australian-German
electrical engineer
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.
Biography
Rudolph Laver was one of seven sons of farmer Jonas Laver (1819-1880) from
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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and of Mary Ann née Fry (†1885). In 1899 Rudolph Laver emigrated to Germany, studied
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
in
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
and
Charlottenburg, and was naturalized in Germany in 1915. Laver was director at the power plant company ''Bergmann Elektrizitätswerke'' in Berlin. With the outbreak of
World War I
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, large parts of the Bergmann works were converted to armaments production, and Laver was released from his work. In 1934 Laver replaced the then managing director
Martin Rosenfeld of the ''Paul Bouveron GmbH''. The name of the company changed to ''Transformatorenfabrik Rudolph Laver vormals Paul Bouveron GmbH''. After his death, his widow Klara, née Rothweiler, inherited the company.
[''Verordnungsblatt für Gross-Berlin, Volume 4, 1948, p. 348'']
See also
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Frank Laver
Frank Jonas Laver (7 December 1869 – 24 September 1919) was an Australian cricketer and baseball player. He played in 15 Test matches between 1899 and 1909 and visited England as a player and team manager on four occasions. An accomplished ph ...
Sources
* ''The Cyclopedia of Victoria'', Volume 3, 2012, p. 121.
References
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1872 births
1946 deaths
German electrical engineers
People from Castlemaine, Victoria
Australian emigrants to Germany
Immigrants to the German Empire