website death_date death_place children birth_place image_size nationality title parents birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
http://www.elsbett-museum.de/ludwig/ludwig.html 28 march 2003 salz , lower franconia , germany günter , linde -lrb- 1944 -rrb- , max -lrb- 1945 -rrb- -lrb- , klaus -lrb- 1949 -rrb- 1941 -rrb- , heidi -lrb- 1943 -rrb- 25px salz , lower franconia , germany 150px german dr. hc . ludwig elsbett / company founder victor & maria elsbett 08 november 1913 lieselotte elsbett ludwigelsbett04.jpg ludwig elsbett
 ludwig elsbett engineer and designer of diesel engine .
ludwig elsbett

ludwig elsbett -lrb- b. november 8 , 1913 in salz , lower franconia , germany -- d. march 28 , 2003 -rrb- was the inventor of the elsbett engine .
elsbett was one of nine children of the farmer viktor elsbett and his wife maria .
he grew up in agriculture , and was originally trained as a fitter for agricultural machinery .
later , he attended the technical schools in bad frankenhausen and neustrelitz to study mechanical engineering and aircraft engines , and became a mechanical engineer .
in 1937 , he was appointed department manager at the junkers aircraft works in dessau and developed combustion engines .
in 1940 , he married his wife lieselotte , and had five children with her .
he was a living legend of technology ; he played a decisive role in the further development of diesel engine technology .
after the war , elsbett set up an independent factory in salzgitter for the production of a small two-stroke diesel engine .
in 1973 elsbett gained international recognition for the first ever serial-produced direct-injection diesel engine for cars .
in 1977 elsbett produced an engine fuelled by vegetable oil called the `` elsbett-motor '' .
in 1980 elsbett made the first conversion of standard diesel cars with prechamber engines to vegetable oil .
in 1993 the `` elsbett mercedes '' won the first eco tour of europe with the lowest consumption of fuel .
in 1997 elsbett won the european solar prize .
in 2002 elsbett converted the standard common-rail car engines and unit-injector truck engines to vegetable oil fuel .
there is now an elsbett museum in the city of salz , bavaria , lower franconia .
