Carl Giesecke (engineer)
Carl Giesecke (born January 18, 1854 in Grund ; † July 6, 1938 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .
life and work
Giesecke joined Carlshütte AG in Delligsen in the early 1880s . At the beginning of the 1890s, the Brunswick factory owner Hugo Luther recruited him for his machine factory and mill construction company G. Luther . Giesecke left this company in order to found the mill construction company Amme, Giesecke & Konegen (AGK) in Braunschweig on January 1st, 1895 with his former work colleagues Ernst Amme and Julius Konegen . He was head of the department for the construction of cement plants before going into the 1912 retirement came. He set up a foundation to support young company employees. In 1915 he moved to Bad Harzburg, where he worked on the plans for a water and electricity company, and died there in 1938.
Carl-Giesecke-Strasse in Braunschweig is named after him.
literature
- Michael Mende: Giesecke, Carl. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 208 f .
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Giesecke, Carl. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 51 f .
- Amme, Giesecke & Konegen (ed.): 25 years of Amme, Giesecke & Konegen Aktiengesellschaft, Braunschweig. 1895-1920. Westermann, Braunschweig undated (1920). ( OCLC 258332953 )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 208 f.
- ↑ February 18, 1854 according to the Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, p. 51 f.
- ^ AGK (Amme, Giesecke and Konegen), Braunschweig on scheesseler-muehle.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giesecke, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | reason |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1938 |
| Place of death | Bad Harzburg |