Carl Bauer (entrepreneur)

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Carl Bauer (born October 2, 1868 in Biebrich am Rhein , † after 1935) was a German entrepreneur . He was general director and full board member of Vogtländische Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft (VOMAG) in Plauen in Vogtland , which mainly manufactured trucks.

Life

Share of more than 5000 Marks in Vogtländische Maschinenfabrik AG signed by Carl Bauer

After attending secondary school , Carl Bauer began an apprenticeship as a banker. He later became a co-founder and board member of Unionwerke Aktiengesellschaft for brewery facilities in Mannheim . In 1914, Carl Bauer was appointed as the successor to director Robert Zahn, who died in 1914, as a full member of the board of the Vogtländische Maschinenfabrik (formerly JC & H. Dietrich) Aktiengesellschaft in Plauen, of which he became general director. He was also a board member of the Reich Association of the German Automobile Industry in Berlin . Carl Bauer was also a member of the Vogtland Flight Association. V. in the German Aviation Association. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Niederlausitzer Automobil-Aktiengesellschaft.

Under his directorate, VOMAG developed into an important German arms company. Carl Bauer experienced the impending bankruptcy in the Great Depression and the new upswing that took place under his leadership after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists.

On his 60th birthday on October 2, 1928, the Reichsverband der Automobilindustrie gave him an elegant vase in a perfect amphora shape, which was auctioned in 2017.

Carl Bauer could be reached at the company in Plauen, Cranachstrasse 4 and privately at Dietrichplatz 1a.

Honors

Carl Bauer was the recipient of several medals.

literature

  • Address Book of Directors and Supervisory Boards , 1921, page 52.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 68.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Vol. I, page 70.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Luftfahrt , Volumes 25-26, 1921, page 131.
  2. ↑ Gummi-Zeitung and Kautschuk , Volume 36, 1922, page 777.
  3. ↑ Illustration from the auction catalog
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebrach on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH after 1935