Carl Blechschmidt Jr., 85, a product safety officer with the Consumer Product Safety Commission who retired in 1998 after 30 years with the commission and its predecessor organization, died Dec. 7 at his home in Waynesboro, Pa. The cause was pneumonia, said a daughter, Annette Painter.
In Memory
Carl Wilhelm Blechschmidt - Class Of 1950
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Graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering, Class of January 1955 (classmate and friend of Neil Armstrong).
Employed by the Martin Company, Middle River, Maryland until December 1968 as a Structural and Dynamic Test Engineer and later as a Human Factors and Life Sciences Test Engineer, working projects on the P6M Seamaster, B-57 special effects test aircraft including participation in Operation Redwing (nuclear testing at Eniwetok), Vanguard and Gemini Launch Vehicles, Nuclear Isotope Generators for auxiliary power applications, and Apollo Lunar Surface Drill. Chief Engineer on early development of Airbag Restraint systems (Stapp 8th and 9th Crash Conference Proceedings).
From December 1968 until retirement from the federal government in October 1998 worked in the consumer product safety field, first with the Presidential National Commission on Product Safety, and later holding many key positions with the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In retirement continued consulting on product safety problems.
Mr. Blechschmidt was born in South Bend, Ind. He was an engineer with the Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River, Md., before coming to Washington and joining what then was the National Commission on Product Safety in 1968. He moved to Waynesboro from Potomac, Md., about five years ago.
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