Béla Egger
Bernhard Béla Egger (born May 18, 1831 in Ofen ( Buda ), † July 5, 1910 in Vienna ) was an industrialist in the early days of electrical engineering .
Egger trained as a locksmith and mechanic. From 1859 he lived in Vienna, where he founded the mechanical workshop and telegraph construction company B. Egger after the invention of telegraphy in 1862 or 1867 . 20 years later this into the participation of his two brothers was Austrian Erste factory for electric lighting and power transmission B. Egger & Co. converted.
In Budapest he founded a factory for the production of low and high current devices and soon afterwards a second factory for incandescent lamps .
In 1880 he exhibited a small, temporary electric train with a length of 200 m at the Viennese trade fair - the first in Austria and the second worldwide. He set up the lighting system for the Hermesvilla and the street lighting from Lainzer Tor to the Hermesvilla with direct voltage and incandescent lamps in series . In 1882 he founded together with his brothers Jakob, David and Heinrich together with Johann Kremenezky in Vienna the "First Austro-Hungarian factory for electrical lighting and power transmission, Egger, Kremenezky & Co", which produced arc lamps and dynamo machines. In 1884 he left the company.
During the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , he illuminated the Votive Church and the Kahlenberg using naval floodlights with powerful arc lamps . In 1893 Ferdinand Porsche joined the United Electricity Corporation Béla Egger in Vienna.
In the year 1896 all three works in the United Electricity AG vorm. B. Egger & Co. brought in, which was controlled by the Lower Austrian Escompte-Gesellschaft . In 1899 the Austrian and Hungarian factories were separated. Together with the Pest Hungarian Commercial Bank , he founded the Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Maschinenfabriks-AG to take over the factories there. The majority of the shares remained with his Viennese company. In 1907 the Budapest companies split again into the Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Maschinenfabriks AG and the Vereinigte Glühlampen- und Elektrizitäts AG , in which Tungsram light bulbs were produced.
literature
- Egger Béla (Bernhard). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 221.
- Franz Mathis : Big Business in Austria: Brief descriptions of large Austrian companies . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-486-53771-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Leitner: As if drawn by magic… . kfunigraz.ac.at. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia: (DBE) . Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egger, Béla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Egger, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian industrialist in electrical engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buda |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1910 |
| Place of death | Vienna |