Georg Gregersen de Saàg

Georg Gregersen de Saàg as a student in the winter semester 1871/72

Georg Gregersen de Saàg (born March 26, 1853 in Gran ; † February 8, 1905 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian engineer , industrialist and general manager of the construction company G. Gregersen & Sons .

Life

Georg Gregersen was born as the son of Gudbrand (Guilbrand) Gregersen and Luise Sümeg, who immigrated to Hungary from Norway . After finishing school, he studied engineering at the Charlottenburg Business Academy and in the summer semester of 1871 became the first foreigner to join the Saxon Association, later the Corps Saxonia-Berlin.

After completing his studies, he joined his father's company based in Budapest, which was renamed G. Gregersen & Sons and was appointed General Manager. G. Gregersen & Sons became the largest company in Hungary of its time with a focus on the construction of railway lines including dams, tunnels, bridges and stations. Together with his brother Ödön he set up a branch in Prague .

Georg Gregersen, together with his parents and siblings, was raised to the Hungarian nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1884 for their services in building the flood protection facilities around the city of Szegedin . From this point on, the family had the addition of de Saàg . Georg Gregersen is buried in the family mausoleum in Budapest.

Buildings

(excerpts)

• Flood protection facility of the city of Szeged after the flooding of 1879
• Eastern Railway Station in Budapest, 1884
• Restoration of Charles Bridge after the damage caused by the flood of 1890
• Construction of the Elisabeth Bridge in Komáron, 1892
• Modernization of the port facilities in Rijeka
• Construction of a road steel bridge over the Waag in Trenčín , 1897

literature

• Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
• Gudbrand Gregersen de Saági in the Norsk biografisk leksikon (NBL) ( digitized version )

References and comments

1. ↑ Ödön Gregersen de Saàg became a member of the Corps Suevia Prague in Prague (see Kösener Corps lists 1960, 118 , 99)
2. ↑ Elisabeth Bridge in Komáron in the Hungarian Wikipedia
3. ↑ City history in facts and figures ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the city of Trenčín