Friedrich August Emil Heuer

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Friedrich August Emil Heuer (born December 27, 1857 in Rammenau , †  March 29, 1934 in Dresden ) was a farrier and Saxon court wagon builder.

Life

This year, on April 1, 1884, he and his brother Robert Heuer founded a workshop for shoeing and wagon construction in Radeberg . Shortly after the company was founded, he worked with the Dresden carriage maker Carl Heinrich Gläser . Emil Heuer's company delivered shell structures for carriages to glasses. The business relationship became so close that on April 1, 1898, Heuer became co-owner of the Heinrich Gläser luxury car factory . After Glaser's death in 1902, he became the sole managing director and owner. The glasses company supplied the Saxon court, among others. On July 6, 1903, Friedrich August Emil Heuer was awarded the title “Royal Court Car Maker”.

This year, at the turn of the century, the idea of ​​building automobile bodies was already being considered, but was only able to put these ideas into practice after the death of Carl Heinrich Gläser. Up until the beginning of the First World War , Heuer drove the development of automobile bodies for the company Gläser-Kar itself. As early as 1905, the first car was delivered to the Saxon court, which at that time was still opposed to the new technology. After the end of the war in 1918, Emil Heuer handed over the management of the company Gläser-Kar itself to his eldest son Georg Heuer , but he remained personally liable partner. At the age of 74, he temporarily returned to the company in 1932 after his son's suicide.

Emil Heuer had four children: Georg Heuer, Erich Heuer, Edmund Heuer and Johanna Heuer; The first two named continued the car business of the company Glass Body after Emil Heuer left in 1918.

literature

  • Gerhard Mirsching: Glass Cabriolets - A Piece of German Automobile History . Motorbuch Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-613-01193-X
  • Gerhard Mirsching: Automobile bodies from Dresden - From glasses to KWD . Edition Reintzsch (1996) ISBN 3-930846-08-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung: May 11, 2009, 75 years ago the pioneer of body construction - a Radeberger - died
personal data
SURNAME This year, Friedrich August Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES This year, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Coachbuilder (automobile & carriages)
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Rammenau
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1934
Place of death Dresden