Fritz Ludwig Neumeyer

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Fritz Ludwig Neumeyer (born September 10, 1875 in Egloffstein ; † September 10, 1935 in Nuremberg ) was a German entrepreneur .

Origin, youth and education

Fritz Neymeyer was the son of Elisabeth Heid (1822–1880) and Georg Philipp Neumeyer (1843–1880). He married Marie Husslien (1849–1926); their children together were Elisabeth (1909–1995) and Hans-Friedrich Neumeyer . Fritz Neumeyer attended the municipal business school in Nuremberg . From 1890 he did a commercial apprenticeship at Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik AG vorm. YES Hilpert . From 1895 he represented this company in Zurich , where in 1897 he founded his own company for sanitary facilities.

Entrepreneurship

Metal goods factory Fritz Neumeyer

In 1903 he returned to Nuremberg and acquired the Köllisch toy and metal goods factory from bankruptcy . He switched this to the production of items for technical needs and now called them Metallwarenfabrik Fritz Neumeyer .

Fritz Neumeyer AG

During the First World War he produced ammunition and other armaments on behalf of the Reich government . In 1916 the government of the Reich prompted him to significantly expand his company. He opened a branch in Hersbruck and founded Fritz Neumeyer AG with a 50 percent participation of Hirsch Kupfer- und Messingwerke AG (Berlin and Eberswalde) , of which he took over as general director (chairman of the board). In 1917, steel cartridges and primer caps were manufactured in a new factory in Ziegelstein - Herrnhütte (district of Nuremberg since 1920), which later became the main factory . After the end of the war, armaments production was stopped and semi-finished products were manufactured in the metal foundry, the extrusion and pipe presses.

Zündapp

1916 Neumeyer belonged beside the Friedrich Krupp AG ( Essen ) and the Gebr. Thiel GmbH , a watch and machine tool manufacturers in Ruhla in Thuringia, one of the founders of the igniter apparatus-Gesellschaft mbH ( Zündapp ) in Nuremberg, the first starter and alternator produced , later motorcycles .

Cold extrusion process

His cousin and colleague Fritz Singer developed the Singer process , the hot extrusion of seamless tubes made of solid brass profiles. The process was used to manufacture radiator tubes for internal combustion engines and radiators for ballast water gainers for airships . In 1935, Adolf Liebergeld developed the cold extrusion process in Neumeyer's company.

Fritz Neumeyer AG Munich-Freimann

In 1915 Fritz Neumeyer was involved in founding Bayerische Geschützwerke Friedrich Krupp KG München-Freimann , a subsidiary of MAN . From 1919 he had Franz Lawaczeck develop the Lawaczeck turbine for hydropower plants in this factory . In this context he acquired the Gotha turbine factory Briegleb, Hansen & Co. (founded in 1861; 1910 with approx. 420 employees), which he sold on to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1925 . In 1921 Gutehoffnungshütte acquired 50.15% of the share capital of MAN, which amounted to 100 million Reichsmarks . With around 15,000 employees, MAN had the most extensive workforce of any Bavarian industrial company.

Fritz Neumeyer AG emerged from Bayerische Hüttenwerke under the direction of Otto Meyer , which manufactured water turbines, small locomotives and plows. From January 1924 Gebhard Ludwig Himmler was busy here with the preparation of the license production of a passenger car for the Rover Company . In 1925 the Eisenwerk consortium Fritz Neumeyer AG sold the 363 hectare site with housing developments for 12 million Reichsmarks to the Reichsbahn, which built the Freimann Reichsbahn repair shop here.

Factory Munich

In 1939, the collecting society for the coal and steel industry in Munich acquired a plot of land on the corner of Rosenheimer Strasse and Anzinger Strasse and built a factory there. From 1941 onwards, 100,000 detonators were manufactured in the Munich factory in cooperation with Dynamit AG , including by prisoners of war and forced laborers . A camp with around 1,300 forced laborers was housed in the building complex. These were labor camps 16 (Anzinger Strasse / Glonner Strasse) and 17 (Rosenheimer Strasse 145). In the spring of 1944, Fritz Neumeyer AG employed 1540 people in Munich, including 959 foreign workers. The factory was undamaged during the war.

Kabel- und Metallwerke Neumeyer AG

In 1920 Hackethal Draht- und Kabelwerke AG in Hanover was renamed Kabelwerk Nürnberg AG and in 1922 Kabel- und Metallwerke Neumeyer AG ; the plant became one of Nuremberg's top-selling industrial companies.

During the Second World War , the company's production facilities were relocated to Helmbrechts . The Helmbrechts satellite camp was set up in July 1944 to provide labor .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Hoffmann †, Count Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoß:  Neumeyer, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 174 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Neumeyer, Hans-Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 175 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Fritz Neumeyer (Zündapp)
  4. ↑ Fritz Singer (1879–1974), chemist, 1903 in Munich with a dissertation on mercury acetate and acetic anhydride for Dr. phil. PhD , employed at Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron in Frankfurt am Main, then consultant in the metal industry
  5. ^ Singer method
  6. ↑ Katrin Himmler : The Himmler Brothers. 2012, p. 100. ( limited preview of Google Books )
  7. ^ Fritz Neumeyer AG Munich-Freimann
  8. ^ Anton Joachimsthaler : Federal Railroad Repair Works Munich-Freimann. History, people, vehicles 1925–1985. Bundesbahn repair shop Munich-Freimann, Munich 1985, page 21 ff.
  9. ↑ November 25, 2011, Industrial History in Ramersdorf
  10. ^ Bernhard Hoffmann †, Count Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoß:  Neumeyer, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 174 f. ( Digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia.
  12. ↑ Commemoration of the victims of the death march in: Blickpunkt from April 17, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Neumeyer, Fritz Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumeyer, Fritz (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Egloffstein
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1935
Place of death Nuremberg