Erwin Moritz Reiniger

Erwin Moritz Reiniger (born April 5, 1854 in Stuttgart ; † April 2, 1909 in Munich ) was a German mechanic and co-founder of the company Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall in Erlangen .

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Erwin Moritz Reiniger was born as the son of the jewelry manufacturer Moritz Reiniger. In 1875 he worked as a volunteer in a mechanical workshop in Nuremberg.

In 1876 he got a job at the Physics Institute of the University of Erlangen as an experimental assistant. On the side he did repair work for the university institutes and clinics. Since this work was soon more profitable than his work as an experimental assistant, Reiniger decided to start his own business: Just one year later, on May 24, 1877, he opened his own workshop in Schlossplatz 3, in which he did fine-mechanical, physical, optical and simple manufactured electromedical equipment. This is how the history of medical technology began in Erlangen. At the end of 1885, Reiniger's company already had 15 employees.

In September 1885 he met Max Gebbert and Karl Friedrich Schall at an exhibition and conference of German naturalists and doctors in Strasbourg . In 1886 they decided to jointly found the open trading company "United physical-mechanical workshops of Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall - Erlangen, New York , Stuttgart " (RGS). The workshops in Stuttgart and New York were soon given up. Reiniger took over the commercial tasks in the joint company, Max Gebbert took over the production and Karl Schall took over the construction and sales. In 1888 Karl Schall left the company after setting up his own branch in London .

In 1895, Reiniger and Gebbert also separated. Reiniger had Max Gebbert pay him 100,000 marks . With this he acquired the Bavarian light bulb factory in Munich. But soon he sold the company to a Spanish company in which his son Alfred Julius Reiniger was given a managerial position.

Shortly before his death, Erwin Moritz Reiniger gave up his rather volatile and little profitable fields of work and retired into private life. He left his wife Maria, with whom he had been married since 1879, penniless when he died in 1909. Max Gebbert was generous: he supported Reiniger's widow with company funds until she died in 1937.

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SURNAME	Cleaner, Erwin Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mechanic and co-founder of the company Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall in Erlangen
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1909
Place of death	Munich