Fritz Neuman

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Fritz Neuman (full name: Friedrich (Fritz) Winand Hubert Neuman , born March 6, 1868 in Aachen , † December 25, 1935 in Eschweiler ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

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The son of the entrepreneur Friedrich Joseph Neuman (1842–1911) and Pauline Giesen (1848–1911) attended the secondary school in Aachen and the mechanical engineering school located there and then studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . He then worked in the respective gas stations in Worms and Chemnitz and worked in Budapest and Vienna as a production engineer at the stock corporation for water pipes, lighting and heating systems .

Fritz Neuman's grandfather, Friedrich August Neuman , founded the company FA Neuman, a factory for gas and liquid containers and iron structures in Eschweiler, Bahnhofstrasse 20, on January 1st, 1849 , and handed it over to his son Friedrich Joseph in 1872. In 1894, Fritz Neuman finally joined his father's company and when he died in November 1911, he and his brother Joseph Hubert Neuman (1875–1944) took over the company as partners .

Fritz Neuman worked for at least 36 years in the company that built large technical tanks, especially gas tanks, and also installed them at the respective locations. He was involved in the founding of the Association for Large Water Room Boilers (GWK), which he chaired, and the German Gas Container Association . He played a decisive role in the unification of these institutions in 1923 to form the Association of the German Steam Boiler and Apparatus Industry (VDDA) (Düsseldorf). In 1927, the VDDA joined the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists . He was a member of the VDDA as deputy chairman until his death in 1935.

Since December 1, 1900 he was born with Therese. Rüsges , a niece of August Thyssen , married.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Fritz Pudor : Men of the former German steel industry associations. Düsseldorf 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the historical address book Eschweiler from 1925
  2. ↑ Entry in the historical address book Eschweiler from 1912
personal data
SURNAME Neuman, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuman, Friedrich Hubert Winand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1935
Place of death Eschweiler