Friedrich August Lapp

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Friedrich August Lapp (born June 7, 1848 in Ixheim , Kingdom of Bavaria , † September 7, 1909 in Halberstadt , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a German industrialist who was mainly active in what is now Austrian territory .

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Friedrich August Lapp was born on June 7, 1848, the younger brother of Daniel von Lapp, who later also worked as an industrialist, in Ixheim in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria. After studying at the Zurich Polytechnic , he initially worked in Germany and the United States , before he later devoted himself to the businesses he had acquired together with his brother in Austria ( Cisleithanien ). The Graz- based carpenters and locksmiths factory, Brothers Lapp , which has been enlarged several times over the course of its existence , he specialized in building fittings and was considered a pioneering pioneer of modern locksmith manufacture. Around 1885, Johann Puch, later known worldwide, was a short-term employee of the fraternal company. After he had stopped carpentry production around 1887, Lapp soon founded a soft iron and steel foundry . Around this time, the company passed into his sole ownership. In 1901 Lapp acquired an additional factory in Ödenburg and converted the company into a stock corporation , Eisenwarenfabriks AG Sopron-Graz .

Lapp then appeared as 1st Vice President of this stock corporation, whose ownership in Austria merged in 1918 with the AG of Adolf Finze , formerly Finze & Co , and subsequently existed as Lapp-Finze Eisenwarenfabriken AG . The factory in Ödenburg, where the foundry was relocated in 1908, remained as an independent company after the end of the dual monarchy . In addition, he endeavored to modernize the systems of the Lapp sheet metal and axle factory in Rottenmann , which had been run since March 1892 with his brother and brother-in-law Ludwig Mayer , one of the predecessor companies on the site of what later became Bauknecht and is now AHT Cooling Systems .

In Rottenmann he also made a name for himself through extensive reforestation in the forests belonging to the plant, the construction of workers' houses, electrical city lighting and the boom in the local iron industry. Under the leadership of the Lapp brothers, numerous innovations were made to the former Rottenmann ironworks, which were equipped with special turbine power plants, steelworks, rolling mills and four power plants. A sawmill was also operated during this period. In 1906 the first steel furnace in the monarchy was put into operation here. In the same year the first truck went into operation. Lapp was also Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Grazer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft and a member of the Polytechnic Club in Graz.

On September 7, 1909, Lapp died at the age of 61 in Halberstadt in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia. His brother Daniel died a little over a year later, on October 14, 1910 at the age of 74. The transformation of the company into a stock corporation with the name Rottenmanner Eisenwerke AG, formerly Gebrüder Lapp in 1928, was therefore no longer experienced by either of them.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Nagler : Leaves for the history of technology, Volume 26 . Springer-Verlag , Vienna 1964, ISBN 978-3-7091-5752-7 , p. 36 .
personal data
SURNAME Lapp, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Ixheim , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1909
Place of death Halberstadt , Kingdom of Prussia