Benno Mengele, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benno Mengele

Austrian electrical engineer

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1898

Place of Birth: Zwettl, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1971

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Benno Mengele (11 December 1898 in Zwettl, Lower Austria – 15 September 1971 in Vienna) was an Austrian electrical engineer. Mengele studied from 1918 to 1923 at the Vienna University of Technology and worked from 1922 at the Austrian Siemens-Schuckert.
He developed protective earthing and fault current, and in 1929 with Gustav Markt the overhead power line (bundle conductors) for high-voltage and ultrahigh-voltage power transmission.
He also built the first hydrogen-cooled three-phase motor in Austria.
In 1965 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology.