Josef Ringo

Josef Abramovich Ringo was a Russian electrical engineer, inventor, and writer.

Life and career Josef Ringo was born in Vitebsk in 1883. From 1905 until 1918 he studied and worked in both Switzerland and France. Title page of Die Judenfrage in ihrem geschichtlichen Zusammenhang und Vorschläge ihrer Lösung. 1917

In Switzerland Josef met Vladimir Lenin. Lenin invited Ringo to come to Moscow to take part in the plan of electrification of Moscow. From 1918 to 1922 he worked as the head of the electric department of Moscow and the Moscow region, provincial electrical engineer, then director of the electrical installation office of the Moscow Sovnarkhoz and the department of small-scale electrification of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. Later he was employed as a worker in the chemical industry. Ringo patented a large number of inventions, including patents in the field of lightning protection.