Felix Herriger

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Felix Herriger (born June 21, 1908 in Kempen ; † November 29, 2009 in Ulm ) was a German electrical engineer and manager.

Career

Felix Herriger attended the Prinz-Georg-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and studied at the Technical University of Munich after graduating from high school in 1927 . After completing his studies as an electrical engineer, he was employed in the development laboratory for transmitter tubes at the Telefunken company in Berlin-Siemensstadt in 1932 . There he wrote his dissertation under the title “Investigations on Barkhausen short oscillations ”. In 1934 he was at the Technical University of Dresden to Dr.-Ing. PhD .

In 1937 he moved to C. Lorenz AG , since 1930 a subsidiary of the conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation from New York . There he managed the establishment and subsequent operation of a laboratory for transmitter tubes and, after the end of the Second World War, took over the construction and management of the Lorenz picture tube factory in Esslingen am Neckar . At the beginning of 1954 he and Max Rieger took over the management of G. Schaub Apparatebau-Gesellschaft mbH in Pforzheim , shortly before it was transferred to the parent company C. Lorenz as a new department in October 1954 . There he was then a member of the board of directors. After its merger with Standard Elektrik AG to form Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG , he was there for four years until 1962 on the board of directors responsible for the entire radio and television business.

In 1962 he changed the company again and became a member of the management of Telefunken GmbH , from 1963 Telefunken AG . His business area was "components". From 1964 he was first deputy and from 1965/66 onwards he was CEO of Telefunken. After the merger of AEG and Telefunken, he was deputy chairman of the board of general electricity company AEG-Telefunken from 1967 to 1971, based in Frankfurt am Main . Herriger took over the management of the equipment business with the two departments "radio and television equipment" and "phono and magnetic tape recorders".

From 1968 Herriger was President of the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry ( ZVEI) and a member of the Presidium of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI). From November 1966 to May 1973 he was chairman, initially of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the Medical and Natural Science University of Ulm and, since 1967, of the Ulm University Society that emerged from it .

Honors

Felix Herriger was an honorary senator of the University of Ulm and received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972 .

Fonts

  • Investigations on Barkhausen short oscillations. - Dresden TeH., Dissertation, 1934

literature

  • E. Thiele (Ed.): Telefunken after 100 years: the legacy of a German global brand . Nicolai, Berlin 2003
  • Waltraud Voss and Anja Musiol: Biographical Lexicon of Early Doctoral Students at TU Dresden (1900–1945) , edited by Matthias Lienert, p. 374 ( online in the archive of the Technical University of Dresden )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice at Südwest Presse Online , accessed on June 1, 2016
  2. ↑ AEG - head of the bosses . In: Der Spiegel , January 6, 1965, accessed June 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Herriger, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2009
Place of death Ulm