Egon Herbrig

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Egon Herbrig (born June 3, 1932 - † July 18, 2018 ) was a German entrepreneur in the metalworking industry.

Life

On September 1, 1956, Egon Herbrig and his wife founded the Herbrig company in Bärenstein as a precision mechanics workshop. On September 1, 1958, this was transferred to a production cooperative of the trade as PGH Feinmechanik Bärenstein . In 1972 the company was forcibly nationalized as VEB Electronic Products Bärenstein and Herbrig ran the company as company director. The new corporate purpose was now limited to the production of precision resistors, variable capacitors and photo closures for Pentacon cameras, primarily for the domestic market. On May 1, 1985, the company was downgraded to the Electronic Products Bärenstein division of VEB PENTACON Dresden in the Carl Zeiss Jena combine .

On September 1, 1990, together with his family and business partners, he succeeded in re-privatizing his original company. Of the original 300 employees, only 28 remained in the re-privatized company, which was now called Herbrig & Co. GmbH . Building on this, the company managed to develop into one of the leading turning shops in Saxony. A corporate concept developed between 2006 and 2008 was co-financed by Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden , which acquired a stake in the company through one of its subsidiaries and held it until 2014.

In 2008 he handed over the company succession to his great-nephew Christoph Herbrig. The company specialized in the production of simple to highly complex precision turned parts and assemblies and works for customers all over the world and in 2017 had around 150 employees.

Egon Herbrig was one of the founders of IMPRO - Association of Metal and Precision Technology Osterzgebirge eV He was the initiator of the “Bärensteiner Talks” to bundle the interests and activities of companies in the Müglitztal . He was also committed to helping underperforming young people on their way to a professional qualification in the metal industry.

His voluntary work on the board of the Dresden Chamber of Crafts and its master craftsman's examination committee and his decades of non-material and financial support of sport, churches, associations and his home community led to the award of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Feine, Harald Jürgens: Competitors become partners: Securing the future and innovation in the SME network IMPRO - Association of Metal and Precision Technology Osterzgebirge eV In: Sabine Jeschke (Ed.): Innovative ability in demographic change - Contributions to the demographic conference of the BMBF in the 2013 Science Year. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-50055-3 , pp. 255-266.
personal data
SURNAME Herbrig, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur (metal processing)
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1932
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2018