Franz Kuhlmann

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Franz Wilhelm Kuhlmann (born February 27, 1877 in Wilhelmshaven ; † February 7, 1965 ibid.) Was a German entrepreneur.

Career

Kuhlmann was the son of watchmaker Bernhard Friedrich Kuhlmann, who bought a watch shop in Wilhelmshaven in 1878 and owned it a. a. expanded to include a mechanical workshop. Franz Wilhelm Kuhlmann took over the mechanical workshop in 1899 and founded his own workshop for precision mechanics and mechanical engineering in 1903, later Franz Kuhlmann KG , with plants in Rüstringen and Bad Lauterberg in the Harz region . He founded the worldwide success of his company, which exported to more than 60 countries, in particular with the construction of drawing machines and drawing tables .

In 1957 he set up a foundation to promote a chair in private international law. He was a member of the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Honors

  • 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • February 27, 1957: Honorary citizen of the city of Wilhelmshaven

Individual evidence

literature

  • Hermann Ahner: Wilhelmshavener Chronik: on the 100th return of the naming by King Wilhelm on June 17, 1869. Verlag Brune, 1969
  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
  • Werner Brune (Ed.), Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon, Brune Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1985
  • Kuhlmann, Franz: 25 years of Franz Kuhlmann Rüstringen-Wilhelmshaven and Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains , print: G. Hunckel, Bremen, 1928
personal data
SURNAME Kuhlmann, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhlmann, Franz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1965
Place of death Wilhelmshaven