August Stigler

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August Stigler (born July 26, 1832 in Renchen , Baden , † March 25, 1910 in Lugano ) was an industrialist of German origin.

Life

August Stigler attended the first two mathematical classes at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe from 1847 to 1849 , but no longer the third class. After completing his engineering training, he worked in the area of ​​the Bruchsal Post and Railway Office and at machine factories in Graffenstaden , Pforzheim and Eßlingen am Neckar . From 1857 to 1859 he was an assistant teacher for technical and machine drawing with Franz Reuleaux at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnicum Zurich .

He then moved to Milan . Here he was initially a consultant to the company "Schlegel & Co." and then founded the machine factory "Officina Meccanica Stigler". He made small motors, turbines and pumps, and then devoted himself to constructing hydraulic elevators . In 1870 he built an elevator for the Hotel Costanzi in Rome , then also for other buildings, and in 1894, as part of a large exhibition near Milan's Sforza Castle, he erected a tower with a 38-meter-high viewing platform, the Torre Stigler, with a lift was equipped. From 1898 he also built electric elevator systems. His name became so popular that it became synonymous with elevator; if someone didn't feel like climbing stairs, he said: "I'll take the Stigler". Foreign agencies soon opened up: in 1903 the “Original Stigler Aufzüge GmbH” in Munich-Schwabing , in 1911 the “Société Française Stigler”, and also the “Factory for Stigler Elevators” in Vienna.

Stigler married Luisa Maier (1828–1911) in 1857. They had five children: Massimo, Augusto, Paolina, Carlo and Leo. In 1903 he passed the management of the company to his sons Massimo (1858–1915) and Augusto (1861–1939), who transferred them to a stock corporation in 1907, of which the father held half of the share capital. After the company had been largely destroyed in World War II, it merged with its American competition to form “Stigler Otis spa” in 1947. By this time, it had built almost 45,000 elevators, about half of which were installed in Italy, the others worldwide by Buenos Aires to Tokyo .

literature

  • Interesting buildings Stigler: Dedicated by the Stigler machine factory on the occasion of the delivery of the 15,000. Stigler elevator . o. O., o. J. [approx. 1915].
  • Elevator World . October 1979, pp. 35-39.
  • Anne von Oswald: German industry on the Italian market from 1882 to 1945 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 195 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual reports on the students of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mathematical class of the polytechnic school Carlsruhe , 1847–1850, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, GLA 448, 1000; 448, 983 and 448, 1021.
  2. ^ ETH Zurich, Library, Archives, SR 2: Presidential Decree No. 59 of April 6, 1857 and Minutes of the School Council No. 8 of December 22, 1858; Swiss Federal Archives Bern, E 80, Volume 106, Dossier 1137.
  3. ↑ http://www.storiadimilano.it/cron/dal1851al1860.htm ; http://www.storiadimilano.it/cron/dal1891al1900.htm ; http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/ind2.php
  4. ↑ Private archive Dr. arch. Marco Stigler.
personal data
SURNAME Stigler, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Renchen , Baden
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1910
Place of death Lugano , Italy