Anton Ullrich

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Anton Ullrich (* 1825 ; † 1895 ) was a German inventor . Anton Ullrich and his brother Franz Ullrich developed the articulated spring lock on hinged rules, which made it possible to measure horizontally and vertically with folding folding rules without them collapsing. In 1886 the invention was successfully registered for a patent as an “innovation in folding rules with spring lock”. At the Paris World's Fair in 1889 , the invention achieved enormous success.

Anton Ullrich

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Together with his brother Franz Ullrich, Ullrich took over from his father a land trade with colonial and textile goods in Maikammer and initially ran a small workshop for joint size production, from which the first German scale factory emerged. The production range was gradually expanded. Cow and horse bars and sheet metal harnesses were made and a tinning mill was put into operation. In 1877 an enamelling plant was also founded. In 1884 the factory was expanded and there were 250 employees. In 1890 the company was converted into a joint stock company as the “enameling and stamping works formerly Gebrüder Ullrich”, because that year the Ullrich brothers separated. Franz Ullrich moved to Annweiler , where his son Gustav had founded a "meter factory" as early as 1889, from which the Stabila company later emerged.

Anton Ullrich's company was constantly expanded, so that in 1887 an enamelling factory was also founded in Schifferstadt.

Due to the First World War, the company suffered drastic economic losses, scale production was given up in 1918 and after the death of Ullrich's son August Ullrich in 1927 the company went bankrupt in 1928.

In 2015 the Ullrich Brothers Realschule Plus Maikammer-Hambach was named after the Ullrich brothers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The factory of the Ullrich brothers. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The measure of all things. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Company history. Stabila Messgeräte Gustav Ullrich GmbH, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ The name of the Ullrich Brothers Realschule Plus. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
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SURNAME Ullrich, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1825
DATE OF DEATH 1895