August Heinzerling

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August Heinzerling (* 1899 in Kassel ; † 1989 in Morschen ) was a German inventor and entrepreneur .

Life

Professional background

August Heinzerling went to school in Kassel and completed an apprenticeship in the field of metal processing , then became a master craftsman and later an engineer .

In the First World War he served in the Navy. The course and outcome of the war prevented a desired career as an officer. Instead he went to the United States in 1923/1924 and 1930/1931 , to which he remained lifelong. In 1934 he founded a small company in Kassel that manufactured kitchen appliances and tools developed by Heinzerling himself . With the outbreak of World War II , business came to a standstill. Heinzerling was posted to work in the Henschel works . In 1943/44 Heinzerling received a long-kept secret order to design a gear unit with specific properties, without being informed of the later use. Only years after the end of the war did Heinzerling find out that this gearbox was intended to be one of the most important drive elements in the V-2 rocket developed by Wernher von Braun . After the war, he moved to Morschen near Kassel, his father's hometown, where Heinzerling rebuilt and expanded his company considerably. August Heinzerling died in 1989 at the age of 90 in Morschen.

Company and products

Heimag machine and device construction

Heimag-Maschinen- und Gerätebau , founded by August Heinzerling in 1934, was a medium-sized plastics processing company. A wide range of tools and household appliances were produced. In 1973 the company was handed over to his son Karl Heinzerling. In the mid-1990s, the company was the largest employer in Morschen with around 140 employees. The change of ownership in connection with the murder of Morschen's parents was significant . The son Karl and the daughter-in-law of August Heinzerling were murdered on behalf of their adoptive daughters and the fiancé of the older daughter. The perpetrators were declared unworthy of inheritance. The company was then taken over by the founder's great-nephew, but finally had to file for bankruptcy in 2004 .

Rührfix

The most popular and long-lasting product developed by August Heinzerling and produced and sold by Heimag is the Rührfix kitchen appliance, which works purely mechanically. At first only small numbers were produced by hand, but the presentation at the Leipzig Trade Fair in 1936 increased demand. After the beginning of the Second World War , production had to be stopped due to a lack of materials. From 1949 Heinzerling produced the Rührfix again. Between 1937 and 1997, the device was sold 8.5 million times worldwide and was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Even after that, there were re-editions as a design article, after the original device as a mass product was noticeably replaced by electrical devices in the 1970s. The Rührfix is ​​now exhibited in numerous museums at home and abroad as a defining household appliance of its time.

Patents

Heinzerling held over 30 patents for his inventions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Small kitchen helper from Kassel , HNA edition Kassel, August 16, 2013, on the website of the Local History Working Group in the Förderverein Kloster Haydau eV, accessed on September 27, 2019
  2. ↑ Kurt Fürer: North Hesse between today and tomorrow: Kurhessen, Waldeck, Fulda. Stalling, 1965, p. 273
  3. ↑ Trademark sheet . Wila-Verlag for commercial advertising, 1934, p. 954 ( google.de [accessed September 29, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d Once in every household: How the Rührfix came to Morschen , HNA , September 25, 2013
  5. ↑ Two daughters get maximum sentences for. . . Murder of adoptive parents, inheritance worth millions - Judge: "Dollar sign in the eye" , Rhein-Zeitung , November 12, 1998, accessed on September 27, 2019
  6. ↑ Rührfix at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Netherlands
  7. ↑ Rührfix the Altona Museum
  8. ↑ Rührfix in Saarland bakery museum
  9. ↑ Rührfix in autumn One Instead Museum
  10. ↑ Rührfix in Mölndals Stadsmuseum, Norway
  11. ↑ Rührfix at bakelietverzameling.nl
  12. ^ August Heinzerling at Google Patents
personal data
SURNAME Heinzerling, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Rotten