Georg Neidlinger

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Georg Neidlinger (born May 12, 1839 in Alzey-Weinheim , † April 20, 1920 in Hamburg ) was a German sewing machine manufacturer and chairman of the board of Singer Sewing Machines Aktien Gesellschaft , which was founded in 1895 by converting his sales company for Singer sewing machines.

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Georg Neidlinger was born as the second youngest of twelve children to farmer Johann Adam Neidlinger. Two of his brothers emigrated after the German Revolution of 1848/1849 to avoid arrest.

Georg Neidlinger left his hometown Weinheim around 1856 and went to the USA, where two older brothers had emigrated before. He worked as a mechanic in a sewing machine factory, at one of three modern, additional manufacturing facilities for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in New York City . In 1860 he took over the sales of sewing machines on the old continent. He settled in Hamburg and founded the independent company Singer general agency Georg Neidlinger . He was extremely successful and after fifteen years of work he had the densest sewing machine branch network in Europe. In Germany alone it had 214 branches.

In 1895 Neidlinger converted his sales company into a stock corporation , Singer Sewing Machines AG in Hamburg, and joined its board of directors. He had a commercial building built on Admiralitätsstrasse in Hamburg, which served as an office and warehouse for his sewing machine sales and which still bears his name today, the so-called Neidlingerhaus . In 1904, Neidlinger built another commercial building on the corner of Jungfernstieg and Alsterarkaden, which was also referred to as the Neidlinger House at the time, but no longer bears this name after several renovations and changes of ownership.

In addition to his residence in Hamburg, he was also active in a number of cultural and social projects in his home town of Weinheim. In Hamburg he was one of the financially most committed founder cationaries of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, which opened in 1900, and was one of the founding donors of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation .

On May 28, 1910, Georg Neidlinger, who at that time was already living as a pensioner in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst , was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhine .

Georg Neidlinger died on April 20, 1920 in Hamburg and was buried in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery. The tomb of the Hamburg Neidlinger family was designed by the German sculptor and medalist Bruno Kruse .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Neidlinger in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Georg Neidlinger / Hamburg personalities. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Fred V. Carstensen: American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia . Ed .: UNC Press Books. 2018, ISBN 978-1-4696-4392-2 , pp. 300 .
  4. ^ The First Singer Sewing Machine Factory. Accessed November 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Neidlinger-Haus , on bildindex.de, accessed on November 27, 2019
  6. ↑ Georg Neidlinger / Hamburg Scientific Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Neidlinger, Georg, HStaD, Biographical Information; Government Gazette 1910, Appendix 22, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Neidlinger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sewing machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Alzey-Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1920
Place of death Hamburg