Eduard Reisert

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Eduard Reisert (1847–1914)

Eduard Reisert (born February 16, 1847 in Alzenau , † January 20, 1914 in Cologne ) was a German engineer and industrialist.

Life

Photo of the workforce at the C. Reuther & Reisert machine factory in 1882. Eduard Reisert on the scales on the right, Carl Reuther on the far right
Klio factory around 1915
Patent No. 634 029
Eduard Reisert, October 3, 1899

Eduard Reisert was born on February 16, 1847 in Alzenau, Lower Franconia. After attending advanced training schools in Aschaffenburg and Würzburg, he got a job as an engineer in Augsburg in 1866. From there, Eduard Reisert moved to Cologne, where he founded the Munnem & Reisert machine works with the manufacturer Munnem in 1876. In 1877, he developed the first level-like throughput measuring device with the number 66 and applied for a patent for it. After getting to know the industrialist Carl Reuther from Hennef, they both founded the Hennef machine factory C. Reuther & Reisert (later Chronos-Werke) there on July 1, 1881 . The first factory building was erected in the same year between Frankfurter Strasse and Sieg, not far from the train station. In the period that followed, they jointly developed the world's first calibratable, automatic scale and received patent protection for it in December 1882. On April 12, 1883, the Imperial Normal Aichungs Commission also granted approval as a value meter for the so-called Chronos scales, which became world-famous in the following years. In order to produce a drip-proof fountain pen patented by him in 1899 , he founded the Factory for Utility Objects GmbH (Klio-Werk) opposite the Chronos Werke, on Hennefer Lindenstrasse, in 1900 and built a new factory and a manufacturer's villa on the company premises in 1912. From 1907 onwards, 100 different fountain pens were offered in advertisements and catalogs, including the Klio patent fountain pen based on the patent from 1899, the Bonitas fountain pen and the Regina patent security gold fountain pen. Klio-Werke were one of the first manufacturers of fountain pens in Germany. Eduard Reisert died in Cologne in 1914 as a Kommerzienrat .

Appreciation

Today his work is an important part of the industrial history of Hennef an der Sieg and part of the city's tourist marketing.

Historical traces:

  • The Klio-Werke, built by him in Art Nouveau style in 1912, along with his house on Frankfurter Strasse, were demolished in 1984 and now form the market square.
  • Some of the Chronos works he helped build are now a listed building and are part of Quartier Chronos .
  • The fountain pens he developed and advertising from 1907 can be found today with collectors and in archives.
  • The co-developed by him Chronos balance is now considered the world invention of Hennef in the permanent exhibition weights, scales and weighing through the ages and in Hennef Weigher Walking appreciated.
  • In Hennef there is now Reisertstrasse named after him.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Reisert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wolfgang Euler, Heinz Weisser, Rudi Keinath: History of the Scales - Part 4. (PDF) Retrieved on June 6, 2018 .
  2. a b Helmut Fischer: Hennef an der Sieg: 91 villages - one city . Sutton, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-815-7 , pp. 44 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ A b FNP Hennef project group: history / commercial development. (PDF) In: Land use planning City of Hennef p. 40. City of Hennef, May 16, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2016 .
  4. ^ City of Hennef (ed.): List of monuments of the city of Hennef (Sieg) - Part A - Architectural monuments . June 2016, p. 10 ( hennef.de [PDF]).
  5. Hennef "Quartier Chronos". In: Database of Werkstatt-Stadt. Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research, July 3, 2014, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  6. display. (Digitized in the archive of Heidelberg University) In: Fliegende Blätter No. 3241. September 13, 1902, accessed on June 7, 2018 . Display. (PDF Download) In: Nebelspalter No. 42.1910 , accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  7. Collecting fountain pens. In: Sammeln-Sammler.de. Retrieved June 7, 2018 .
  8. The Hennef weighing trail. In: Tourismus-Hennef. City of Hennef, accessed June 7, 2018 .