Benno Mengele


Benno Mengele 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 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.