Hans Beiersdorf

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Hans Otto Wilhelm Beiersdorf (born February 21, 1875 in Bärwalde , Neumark , † April 28, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur . He was director of Siemens-Schuckert-Werke Aktiengesellschaft .

Life

He was the son of the pharmacist Paul Beiersdorf , who later became known as the inventor and founder of Beiersdorf AG . In addition to Bärwalde, his father also ran a pharmacy in Grünberg. When Hans Beiersdorf was five years old, his parents moved to Hamburg , where his father experimented on pharmaceutical preparations as a pharmacist, founded a plaster business and received his first patent for the gutta-percha plaster jar in 1882.

Hans attended grammar school in Altona. When his older brother Carl Albert took his own life by shooting himself there because he had been stranded in high school, his father sold the company in 1890.

Hans Beiersdorf then switched to the high school in Wandsbek. He then studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig. His father committed suicide in 1896 because he had lost his fortune to building speculators and a new start as a pharmacist failed. Hans Beiersdorf therefore had to look after himself and in 1900 became a designer and four years later a production engineer at Siemens-Schuckert-Werke Aktiengesellschaft. In 1911 he was appointed chief engineer and in 1918 he was promoted to factory director.

He died at the end of April 1945 and was buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Lindenstrasse 1.

family

Hans Beiersdorf was married to Elisabeth Schröder. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. They lived in Berlin-Dahlem , Bitterstrasse 22.

Honors

  • 1929: Dr.-Ing. hc at the Technical University of Braunschweig

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin in the past and present . 2008, page 83.
  2. ↑ a b Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung / Series 12-11 of March 26, 2011
  3. ↑ 100 years of Beiersdorf 1882–1982. Hans Christian's printing works, Hamburg 1982.
personal data
SURNAME Beiersdorf, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beiersdorf, Hans Otto Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bärwalde
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death Berlin