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| Oskar von Miller |
| (5/7/1855 – 4/9/1934) |
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| Engineer, founder of the Deutsches Museum |
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The name of its founder, Oskar von Miller, is inextricably linked with the Deutsches Museum. It is to him, a man whose ingenious ideas were far beyond the period in which he lived, to whom we owe this institution of world renown: he advanced the electrification of Bavaria, created what is now the enterprise Bayernwerk Wasserkraft AG, and built the world-famous Walchensee hydroelectric power station. At the same time, he produced the basis for the large-scale, electrified railroad network in the south of Germany.
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| Oskar von Miller | Deutsches Museum |
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It was also on his initiative that the first projection planetarium was developed, enabling both the appearance and the motions of the fixed stars and the movements of the planets, sun and moon to be elucidated and explained.
| We thank Bayernwerk Wasserkraft AG and the Deutsches Museum for kindly placing photographic material at our disposal. For providing information and looking through the manuscript of this text, we extend our gratitude to Mr. Otmar Reichmeyer, Bayernwerk Wasserkraft AG, Dr. Wilhelm Füssl, Deutsches Museum, and Ralf Roman Rossberg, Murnau, whose article on ”75 Years of the Walchensee Power Station” was of great assistance to us. |
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