Hugo Bremer
Hugo Bremer (born January 13, 1869 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ), † April 19, 1947 in Neheim ) was an industrialist and inventor of the so-called "Bremen light".
Life
Bremer was born in Elberfeld in 1869. Since his father and mother had died early, he had lived in an orphanage from the age of three.
After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Bremer first worked in Remscheid. He later ran a company for the production of thumbtacks in Menden , but then separated from his business partner and relocated production to Neheim. There he improved the production of tacks with machines he had invented and made shoe buttons as an additional item.
Eventually Hugo Bremer invented the Bremen light named after him . The brightness of this light exceeded all other electric lamps of that time. For this invention he received the highest award, the Grand Prix, at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. Special features of these intensive flame arc lamps were the carbon rods placed at an angle, a magnetic field acting downwards and additives in the carbon rods to increase the luminosity. The advantages, but also the disadvantages of continuous operation of the various carbon arc lamps, have been extensively discussed in the specialist community.
Further patents included the improvement of the track chains of war chariots and the manufacture of paper pencils. In the meantime, more than 170 patents and numerous utility models are known of him.
Bremer settled in Neheim in 1892. There, in 1896, the Villa Bremer was built, a representative residence in the post-classical style . He was never married.
After Bremer became somewhat prosperous, he went on long journeys. In North America, he is said to have met Thomas A. Edison . He has also made trips to Asia. About his time in Java he wrote the book India in minor . He used B. Wunderer as a pseudonym. In the book he described his impressions. But it was also shaped by the racist ideas of the time.
He was also one of the earliest automobile owners. He had the number 12 driving license in Prussia. On the other hand, he was a supporter of the life reform movement . In particular, he admired Hugo Höppener (Fidus) and his third way between capitalism and socialism. In religious terms he initially belonged to an evangelical free church and was later without a denomination. This has aroused the distrust of its fellow citizens in the Catholic Sauerland.
In 1906 he wrote Inventors and Patents from an Economic Point of View about his negative experiences as an inventor . In fact, he had to lead numerous lawsuits against large corporations such as Siemens , among others . Various aspects in the book were quite forward-looking. He emphasized the importance of the export economy as well as the likely competition from Japanese and Chinese industries.
Although he was not a National Socialist, he was able to find positive aspects in certain aspects of the system. In 1937, for example, in an article for the party newspaper Rote Erde, he praised the Office for Technology as a refuge for inventor protection. Some time later, in praise of technical progress and inventiveness, he published a book in the Verlag der Arbeitsfront with the title Technology and Design of Being .
In the last years of his life he stood out in Neheim because of his increasingly bizarre behavior. After his hairdresser killed a chameleon that Bremer brought to Germany from overseas, he did not go to the hairdresser again. He always wore two different shoes and carried an umbrella with him regardless of the weather. He basically only had two rooms in his large villa.
After his death, he left a sizable real estate fortune for which 25 distant heirs fought. The city of Neheim-Hüsten acquired his villa and threw his possessions of valuable furniture, books, paintings and collectibles through the windows into the park. Everyone who came by could take whatever they liked. Among other things, a portrait of the well-known English painter Ethel Mortlock has been preserved . This hangs today in the stairwell of the Villa Bremer.
literature
- Theo Hirnstein: loner, genius, bird of paradise. Hugo Bremer and his world , from the magazine "An Möhne, Röhr and Ruhr" of the Heimatbund Neheim-Hüsten eV, issue 24, 2002
- Theo Hirnstein: Hugo Bremer and his world. Attempt to describe his life picture. In. Sauerland 2/2012 pp. 73–77
- Peter Michael Kleine: Hugo Emil Bremer. Bird of paradise, inventor, entrepreneur. In: Sauerland 2/2003 pp. 84–89 PDF file ( Memento from November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Bremer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hugo Bremer - gold medal in Paris. (= Research personalities episode 12). In: gwf Gas + Energie , No. 1/2018, pp. 84–86.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berthold Monasch: The electric arc with direct current and alternating current and its applications. Springer, Berlin 1904, pp. 265f, Fig. 140f, accessed on December 31, 2019.
- ↑ derwesten.de - Facets of the human being Hugo Bremer [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bremer, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1947 |
| Place of death | Neheim |