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3 unusual facts about Oskar von Miller


Hugo Bruckmann

After Oskar von Millers resignation in 1933 Bruckmann became a member of the board for the German museums.

Oskar von Miller

Born in Munich into an Upper Bavarian family from Aichach, he was the son of the first supervisor of the royal ore foundry in Munich, Ferdinand von Miller (1813–1887) and his wife Anna Pösl (1815–1890).

From 1918 to 1924 he was project manager in the building of the then-largest high pressure hydroelectric power station in the world, the Walchenseekraftwerk.


Marcel Deprez

The first successful attempt took place in 1882 from Miesbach to Munich at the occasion of the Exposition of Electricity in the Glaspalast organised by Oskar von Miller.


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