Hans Werner (manufacturer)

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Hans Werner

Hans Werner (* 19th April 1879 in Hannover , † 21st June 1968 in Nienburg / Weser ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and business owners .

Life

On January 30, 1896 Werner received the certificate of maturity at Realgymnasium I in Hanover. From October 15, 1898, he studied mechanical engineering in Department III of the Technical University of Hanover (matriculation number 1690). He passed the preliminary diploma examination on April 16, 1901 with the grade "good" and then completed his studies on January 22, 1903 with the academic degree of a qualified engineer . From April 1, 1904 to May 25, 1909, he worked at Gebr. Körting AG as an engineer and received a monthly salary of 125 marks . For the last two years he worked as the head of the company's Karlsruhe branch.

From 1909 he was personally liable partner of H. Wohlenberg KG in Hanover. After setting up its own foundry in 1904, the company had a total of 350 employees. From 1872 until the move to the new building in Brink in 1929, a total of 13,700 machines were delivered. In 1929 a modern factory was built on 90,000 square meters in front of the city gates in Langenhagen . From 1949 the production program was expanded to include paper cutting machines. In 1989 the globally operating family business - at that time managed by the fourth generation - was sold.

Military career

• 1 April 1903 to 31 March 1904 military service as a one-year volunteer at the Fusilier - Regiment "General-Field Marshal Prince Albrecht of Prussia" (Hanoverian) No. 73rd
• December 15, 1906: patent as a lieutenant of the reserve of infantry
• April 18, 1915: Lieutenant in the reserve
• May 15, 1918: Captain of the Reserve (with Fusilier Regiment No. 73)

family

Hans Werner was a son of the architect Eduard Werner (1847–1923). He was married to Clara geb. Wohlenberg (born April 28, 1879 in Hanover; † April 21, 1965 there), a daughter of the entrepreneur Hermann Wohlenberg . Both children were Hans-Hermann Werner (born December 21, 1912 in Hanover; † January 26, 1959 ibid), personally liable partner of Wohlenberg Co. KG , and Irmgard Werner , married to the entrepreneur Max Müller III .

Honors

• April 17, 1918: Cross of Merit for War Aid
• July 13, 1934: Cross of honor for combatants from the front
• May 10, 1954: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1957: Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Hanover

literature

• Hans Rüdiger: Machine tool factory H. Wohlenberg . In: Berend Denkena: Machine tool construction in Hanover. Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-936888-54-X , pp. 43-60, in particular p. 47 f.