A Tradition of Engineers in the Lentz Family
Civil engineer Bernhard Hugo Lentz
He was the first engineer known in the Lentz family, working more than 40 years as a civil engineer for harbour construction in Hamburg and Cuxhaven (at the mouth of the Elbe river).
Hugo Lentz was holder of a patent for a "time ball", signalling the time to the ships in the river. His many merits - for instance the first precise calculations of low tides and high tides between Hamburg and Cuxhaven, or the construction of the New Harbour, were credited in 1970 by naming an ice breaker / tug boat for him. This boat is on duty today in the harbour of Hamburg and on the lower Elbe.
Icebreaker
"Hugo Lentz" and the waterfront of downtown
Hamburg
 Max Lentz at the age of 22 in Hannover |
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Of Hugo Lentz´ ten children several went to the United States and returned to Germany after a few years but one:
Carl Franz Lentz (29.3.1862 - 20.11.1912), the eldest. He migrated from Cuxhaven to somewhere in Texas (1883 - 1885), to Omaha/NE (1885 - 1888), to Seattle/WA (1889) and eventually to Spokane/WA, where he married Minna Kreutzer. The couple had three children:
Two girls: Conny Lentz (6.5.1905 - 1964) who married Allan Townsend Meade (children: Chas. Allan Meade *7.6.1935 & Caroline Jeanice Meade *17.7.1937)
and Margarete Franziska Lentz (*28.3.1908).
And one son:
Charles Hugo Lentz (27.6.1900 - 30.4.1926). He married Grace Esther Morse (*9.9.1905) and the couple had two children:
Chas. Hugo Lentz (*21.12.1928) and Barbara Ann Lentz (*26.6.1932)
We would be very much
pleased to hear of any possible descendants related to
us!
| Music comes into the
Family from the Austrian Line of the Bach Family
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| Hugo Lentz´ second eldest:
Max Lentz (1863 - 1911) brings us back
to our line. He married Käthe Marschner, born Käthe
Bach.
She brought the musicality into our family, since she was the daughter of Dr. Otto Bach (Wien/Vienna), Director of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, later Musical Director in Vienna and well-known Composer. The couple had two sons: Robert Hugo Lentz (1895 - 1917) and Claus Joachim Lentz (1906 - 1998). |
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Claus Lentz at his 91st
birthday with
Robert, Eberhard and Karin Lentz
Circuit diagram out of one of
his patents
Claus, one of many grand-sons of Hugo Lentz, was Dipl.-Ing. EE and second generation of engineers in this family.
He worked for Philips/Valvo (vacuum tubes production), TeKaDe (early semiconductor rectifiers) and SIEMENS (rectifiers, thyristors for motor power control in machinery, esp. electrical trains). He holds several patents in this field.
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Claus Lentz was active in collecting and editing material for this family chronicle up to his last days, which work is being continued by Eberhard Lentz, his younger son.
He was very proud of his grand-sons Andreas and Michael, who introduced him to the Internet and to produced our homepage.
Robert and Karin Lentz
Robert E. Lentz (Born 1936 in Nürnberg)
Robert, the elder of the two sons of Claus Lentz is Ingenieur for Telecommunications and third generation of engineers.
He started his career at TELEFUNKEN in Ulm/Donau as an engineer in the production of the HAWK anti-aircraft missile. This was followed by three years as editor of the Telefunken-Röhrenmitteilungen (application notes for vacuum tubes) and another three years as a technical editor with WANDEL & GOLTERMANN (measurement equipment).
For 25 years Robert Lentz edited UKW-BERICHTE (German) and VHF COMMUNICATIONS (English), a quarterly publication in two languages which was very well known among experimenting radio amateurs throughout the world. Besides music, ham radio is the main hobby and Robert´s call sign is DL3WR.
His life-time dream came true with his own consulting firm for satellite telemetry: GIGALOG.
Magazine "UKW-BERICHTE"
Andreas and his father Robert
Lentz
Andreas Lentz (Born 1961 in Ulm)
Andreas, the elder of two sons of Robert Lentz is Dipl.-Ing. EE and fourth generation of engineers in this family.
At SIEMENS MEDICAL Technology in Erlangen he is currently responsible for design, production and marketing of components for surge-wave generation. These components are used mainly in lithotripsis (smashing of kidney stones) and pain therapy.
His main hobbies photography and motor cycling will soon fill his part of this homepage.
Michael and Manuela Lentz
The younger son of Robert Lentz is a "banker" and an expert in PC technology and commercial software. Presently he is head of data quality assurance in a german company.
Among his hobbies are music (passive and active), motor boating and programming. Without Michael this homepage would not exist.
Please have a look at his part of this homepage!
