Georg Fischer (entrepreneur, 1834)
Georg Fischer (born December 15, 1834 in Hainfeld (Lower Austria) , † August 2, 1887 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss entrepreneur .
Life
Georg Fischer was born as the son of the entrepreneur Georg Fischer in Hainfeld. For the most part, Fischer grew up with his grandfather Johann Conrad Fischer in Schaffhausen and attended schools here. Like his father, he studied at the Vienna Polytechnic . In 1856 he took over the Fischer'schen Stahlwerke, founded by his grandfather in 1802, as a substitute, and gradually expanded it from a handicraft to a large company: the number of employees rose from five employees in 1856 to 180 by 1887. In 1860, the company was mentioned in the Polytechnical Journal . As a salaried director from 1862 and owner two years later, he introduced two promising innovations with malleable cast iron (1860) and fittings (1864) in Schaffhausen, with malleable cast iron (since 1827) and cast steel (1845) the family company had already left the Lower Austrian works experience. He was a co-founder of the Schaffhauser Handelsbank and the twine factory in Flurlingen and was involved in the Luisenthal spinning mill .
Georg Fischer married Emma Pfister, daughter of Carl Friedrich, a businessman in Schaffhausen, in 1863. He died in Schaffhausen at the age of 52 and bequeathed the company to his son Georg .
literature
- Hannes Siegrist: From a family business to a managerial company: Employees a. industrial organization using the example of d. Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen 1797–1930. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-35702-8 .
- Adrian Knoepfli: Success with cast iron and steel: Johann Conrad Fischer (1773–1854), Georg Fischer I (1804–1888), Georg Fischer II (1834–1887), Georg Fischer III (1864–1925) (= Swiss Pioneers in business and technology. 74). Association for Economic History Studies, 2002, ISBN 3-909059-24-4 , pp. 43–56.
Web links
- Adrian Knoepfli: Fischer, Georg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Short biography on the Georg Fischer company website
Individual evidence
- ^ CH Schmidt in Stuttgart: The fabrication of hammerable and weldable cast iron at Georg Fischer in Schaffhausen. In: Polytechnisches Journal Volume 157, 1860, p. 236 , accessed on June 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, George II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur in Schaffhausen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hainfeld (Lower Austria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1887 |
| Place of death | Schaffhausen |