Friedrich Meyer (industrialist)

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Friedrich Meyer (born September 11, 1893 in Basel ; † December 16, 1974 ) was a Swiss industrialist .

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The son of a craftsman initially completed a three-year apprenticeship at the Basel forwarding company Danzas and from 1913 worked in the Münchenstein factory of aluminum pioneer Georg Giulini , where he rose to director within a few years. In 1921 Meyer got a job in Lausanne at the Société pour l'Industrie des Métaux , which manufactured aluminum and traded aluminum goods. In 1932, together with the German aluminum manufacturer Emil Tscheulin, he founded the Société Alsacienne d'Aluminium (SAA) in Sélestat, in which after 1933 he became the main shareholder and managing director.

Thanks to innovative packaging materials, SAA has become an important supplier for the French food industry, for example with the combination of sandwich paper with aluminum foil ( Alubeurre ) or foils for soft cheese ( Alufromage ).

Due to the Second World War, Meyer relocated production to Le Chable-Beaumont . In 1942 Meyer was asked by the German occupation authorities to reopen his factory in Sélestat. Since he did not comply with this request, he was expelled from France and moved to his home country in Lausanne.

After 1945, SAA resumed production in the old buildings in Sélestat, with the commissioning of the first polyethylene extruder in the industry in 1954 . By taking over the majority of the shares in the Tscheulin aluminum plant in Teningen in 1956 and the establishment of the Société Savoyarde d'Aluminium (SSA) in Cruseilles , the Meyer Group was created, a major player in the field of aluminum foil refinement from then on. The group was complemented by the acquisition of the Portuguese Alumigal . In 1965 the general management of the group was set up in Geneva , chaired by Friedrich Meyer.

Honors

  • 1963 honorary citizen of Teningen
  • 1964 Inauguration of the Friedrich Meyer Stadium in Teningen ▼
  • 1974 Renaming of Teninger Mühlenstrasse to Friedrich-Meyer-Strasse ▼

literature

  • Robert Neisen: From the aluminum foil factory to Tscheulin-Rothal GmbH. doRi-Verlag, Bötzingen 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'histoire de la Maison Meyer. Mairie de Beaumont; accessed on March 4, 2017.
  2. ^ An aluminum band across the Rhine. Badische Zeitung of March 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1974