August Mundt

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August Mundt (born September 26, 1866 in Hanover ; † April 10, 1952 ) was a German entrepreneur, inventor and builder of the Tropholit works in Misburg harbor .

Life

August Mundt was born in Hanover in 1866 and grew up in the early days of the German Empire .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Mundt founded the AC Mundt company in Lehrte . In 1906 he received a British Silver Medal for one of his inventions, an automation device presented in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1905 under the term “Self-Acting Feeding Through”.

In the middle of the First World War , the entrepreneur who worked in Lehrte received a utility model registration from the Imperial Patent Office for his abutment bricks for solid roofs and the like under the name "Hourdis ceiling bricks" on January 20, 1917 under the number DRGM 658 512 .

At the time of the Weimar Republic and the end of German hyperinflation , August Mundt joined the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a full member for his apprentice company AC Mundt in 1925 , but only retained this membership until 1929.

Also in 1929 Mundt was in Misburg built in Misburger harbor, which he successfully led the 1930 Tropholit works. During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the factory and the entire plant were completely destroyed between 1939 and 1945. Subsequent investigations could not prove that August Mundt had any involvement or involvement in crimes of the National Socialists during the National Socialist era , especially since Mundt was allowed to rebuild his Misburg company in the last year of the war in 1945 under the British military government and until 1952, the year of his death.

After the company's founder died, his son Hans-Günther Mundt took over the management of the Tropholit plant in April 1952. When he wanted to withdraw from the management after more than three decades, the nationwide quick-mix Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG , based in Osnabrück, took over August Mundt GmbH & Co. KG , initially while retaining both the company name and and the patent- protected trademarks .

August-Mundt-Weg

The street August-Mundt-Weg, which was laid out in 2003 in what is now the Hanoverian district of Misburg-Süd, is reminiscent of the “builder of the Tropholit works on the site of the Misburg harbor” with its street name.

literature

  • The Deutsches Museum has the title Tropholit-Werke August Mund (Misburg-Hafen) with the different spelling “August Mund” in its collection of company publications
  • Fred Lewik: Tropholit-Werk / August Mundt GmbH u. Co. KG, Misburg / Hafen. In Misburg since 1929. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Ed.) Et al. : Chronicle Misburg. Origin to Present , 1st edition, Hannover-Misburg: W. Illmer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , p. 327.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : August-Mundt-Weg , in ders .: Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Vol. 57/58, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, ISBN 3-7752- 5957-0 , p. 278; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b o.V. : New Inventions / Class 90. Relating to the Dairy Industry (in English), in: Dairy World and British Dairy Farmer , Vol. 15-16, 1906, p. 140; Preview via Google Books
  3. ↑ Dairy World and British Dairy Farmer (in English), Vol. 17-18, 1905, p. 316.
  4. ↑ oV : Tonindustrie newspaper ... and Ceramic Rundschau , Volume 41, issues 1-6, 1917, p 156; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Albert Lefèvre: Personal data , in ders .: 100 years of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover (1866–1966). Mission and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: bacco Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, 1966, pp. 237–265; here: p. 253.
  6. ↑ NN : Mundt / August in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific examination of eponymous personalities , downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated March 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Fred Lewik: Tropholit plant / August Mundt GmbH u. Co. KG, Misburg / Hafen. In Misburg since 1929. In: Wolfgang Illmer (Ed.) Et al. : Chronicle Misburg. Origin to Present , 1st edition, Hannover-Misburg: W. Illmer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , p. 327.
  8. ↑ Compare the information provided by the museum
personal data
SURNAME Mundt, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mundt, AC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and builder of the Tropholit works
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1952