Conrad Freytag
Conrad Freytag (born August 7, 1846 in Lachen , now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ; † July 2, 1921 in Wiesbaden ) was a German building contractor , co-founder of the construction company Wayss & Freytag and a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction in Germany.
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Freytag came from a long-established farming family in the Palatinate and was an apprentice brewer . In 1875, together with his brother-in-law Carl Heidschuch († 1891), he founded the building materials dealership Freytag & Heidschuch oHG , based in Neustadt, where Freytag had built a house in 1871; The company's headquarters remained there until 1925. In addition to trading in ceramics, manufactured by Villeroy & Boch , cement and gypsum, they also produced precast concrete parts, especially concrete pipes. Freytag soon turned to building construction and in 1884 acquired the reinforced concrete patents of the French Joseph Monier for southern Germany, with the right of first refusal for northern Germany. In 1885 he ceded the right of first refusal for the patent for northern Germany to Gustav Adolf Wayss free of charge, who used and further developed the process with his GA Wayss & Cie , which was founded in Berlin and later Beton- und Monierbau . In 1890 Freytag sold his stake in Freytag & Heidschuch oHG to Gustav Adolf Wayss, but after Heidschuch's death in 1891 he bought himself back into the company in 1893, which has since been known as Wayss & Freytag . In 1900 this company was converted into a stock corporation, which Freytag took over. Wayss left the company in 1903 and moved back to Austria. In 1920 Conrad Freytag had to move to Wiesbaden because of health problems . But his ashes were buried in the family mausoleum in Neustadt.
From 1895 to 1920 he was a member of the city council of Neustadt an der Haardt and was made an honorary citizen of the city in 1916 . A lookout point below the mausoleum is called Conrad-Freytag-Blick . Conrad Freytag was a founding member of the German Concrete Association , founded in 1898, was a member of its board until 1905 and was made an honorary member in 1918. In 1905 he was appointed royal Bavarian commercial councilor. In 1918 he received an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) From the Technical University of Darmstadt .
literature
- Max Lütze: Freytag, Conrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 428 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ He wanted to promote the spread of reinforced concrete, s. Karl-Eugen Kurrer History of Structural Analysis , Berlin: Ernst & Sohn , 2002, p. 340
- ^ Website on Freytag's illness and death
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freytag, Conrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building contractor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laugh , now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1921 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |