Ernst Mey

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Ernst Mey.

Carl Ernst Mey (born September 5, 1844 in Niederschmiedeberg ; † January 30, 1903 in Leipzig ) was an entrepreneur in Paris and Leipzig.

Life

Advertisement for the mail order business Mey & Edlich from 1882.
Representative tomb of the Mey family in the Leipzig-Plagwitz cemetery (detail).

Ernst Mey was born the first of 14 children to a teacher and cantor.

From 1859 to 1863 he did an apprenticeship as a banker in Annaberg and from 1864 worked in the Becker & Co. bank in Leipzig. From 1865 to 1867 he worked in stock exchange trading in international banks. In Paris in 1867 he acquired an American patent for paper collars and paper cuffs as well as the business of the previous owner Gray's American Molded Paper Collar Co. and founded his own company Ernst Mey & Co. A year later he took his childhood friend Bernhard Edlich as a partner since then the company has operated as Mey & Edlich . In 1869, Mey relocated its production facilities from Paris to the municipality of Plagwitz, west of Leipzig, where the company has now re-existed as a fashion mail order business after nationalization and the meanwhile relocation of the company headquarters to Munich .

In 1884 Mey also started producing celluloid goods. In 1887 he set up a branch for the production of cellulose nitrate and celluloid , the Eilenburger Chemiewerk , which in 1890 became the independent Deutsche Celluloidfabrik Actiengesellschaft .

With the publication of the first illustrated catalog of goods in 1886, Mey is considered the founder of the German mail order business . The tradition of mail order pioneer Mey is being revived and continued today in the 6th generation of the family.

As a member of the Plagwitz parish council, Mey supported the construction of the Plagwitz Church of the Savior, built between 1886 and 1888, and the establishment of a workers' home, later the home for single women and girls in Weißenfelser Strasse.

Mey had been a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Apollo since 1870 .

Ernst Mey and his wife Emma geb. Wrankmore had five daughters and two sons.

Mey died on January 30, 1903, at the age of 58. He was buried in the Plagwitz cemetery in a large tomb erected by the Leipzig sculptor Adolf Lehnert . On June 3, his widow and children handed over a capital of 20,000 gold marks to the City of Leipzig's Poor Office for an Ernst Mey Foundation (document of July 20, 1903, legally capable by ordinance of August 7, 1903) with the stipulation, to distribute half of the interest on the property to the poor in Leipzig-Plagwitz and half to the poor in the rest of Leipzig.

Honors

In 1888, the previous Elsterstrasse in Plagwitz, where the Meys factories were located, was renamed Ernst-Mey-Strasse after the 44-year-old. Furthermore, in Eilenburg, on the former site of the German Celluloid Factory, a street is named after Mey.

In 1897 Ernst Mey was awarded the title of Royal Saxon Commerce Councilor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophy / History Heimatwerk, 2016 - Mey Descendants Today
  2. ↑ Matriculation No. 1081, cf. Personalities of the Masonic Lodge Apollo. ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freimaurerloge-apollo.de
  3. ^ Heinrich Geffcken; Hayim Tykocinski: Foundation book of the city of Leipzig. On behalf of the council based on the documents and files of the council archives. Bär & Hermann, Leipzig 1905, p. 696 f.
  4. ↑ Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, p. 66, ISBN 3-930433-09-5

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, p. 399, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
  • Otto Werner Förster: Carl Ernst Mey and the Deutsche Celluloid-Fabrik Actiengesellschaft. A man of the world in Plagwitz and Schleußig. Taurus-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-9805669-8-6

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personal data
SURNAME Mey, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mey, Carl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedermiedeberg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1903
Place of death Leipzig