Hans Vießmann

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Hans Vießmann

Hans Vießmann (born November 15, 1917 in Hof (Saale) ; † March 30, 2002 there ) was a German engineer, technician and entrepreneur.

Life

Hans Vießmann was born in 1917 as the first son of Johann and Auguste Vießmann in Hof an der Saale. The Viessmann company was founded in the same year . He spent most of his childhood with his siblings in his father's locksmith's workshop. In 1928 he received a momentous order to manufacture a steel boiler, which he patented in 1936.

After his apprenticeship as a machine fitter , which he completed as a regional winner, Hans Vießmann supported his father in his own company from then on. The family moved to Hessen and opened a new business on May 8, 1938 in Allendorf (Eder) . In 1946 Hans Vießmann and Martha Laute married. With the financial support of his father-in-law, Hans Vießmann was able to take over his father's business. From now on, together with his employees, he developed tools and preparatory work for a new series of boilers. He presented this for the first time in 1957 at the Hanover Fair .

In 1957, Hans Vießmann and other industry colleagues founded the steel boiler association, and he was elected president. A year later, his father Johann Vießmann died.

In 1965, Hans Vießmann developed an oil-fired boiler with integrated water heaters together with Emanuel Pfeil . This and other work led to the award of an honorary doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1994 the Federal President awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon for his services . In the following years he expanded his plant in Allendorf and bought an industrial property in Battenberg (Eder) . The first foreign sales companies followed in Belgium and France.

At the end of the 1960s, Hans Vießmann relocated the production of ventilation and air conditioning equipment to his place of birth in Hof an der Saale. In 1971 a production building in Unterkotzau near Hof was taken over for this purpose. The first devices rolled off the production line two years later.

In 1992, Hans Vießmann retired from heating technology and transferred sole responsibility for management to his son Martin Vießmann , who has been with the company since 1979. Hans Vießmann devoted himself to refrigeration technology in Hof an der Saale until his death in 2002. In 2003 the newly established Hans Vießmann Technologie Stiftung became the owner of Viessmann Kältetechnik AG according to the will.

In 2012, the Viessmann Group took over 100 percent of the shares in Viessmann Kältetechnik AG. With a guaranteed investment volume in the millions, the Hof location with its more than 400 employees is being expanded into the Group's refrigeration competence center.

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literature

  • Peter Neumann: Hans Viessmann and his company . Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04688-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Viessmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viessmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, technician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2002
Place of death Hof (Saale)