Heinrich Kleyer

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Heinrich Kleyer's house in Frankfurt's train station district
Family grave
Adler Mod. No. 7th
Adler men's bike from 1927

Heinrich Ludwig Kleyer (* 13. December 1853 in Darmstadt ; † 9. May 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and business owners .

Career

Heinrich Kleyer was born as the fifth child of the mechanic Wilhelm Kleyer (1822–1879) and his wife Sophie geb. Hohn (1823–1869) was born in Darmstadt. He grew up in Darmstadt and studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Here he joined the Corps Rhenania. In 1875 he went to Hamburg to work in the machine import house Biernatzki & Co., before he founded a machine and bicycle business on March 1, 1880 after a year-long stay in the USA , from which the first German bicycle factory emerged in 1885/86 , the Heinrich Kleyer GmbH . Kleyer's enthusiasm for bicycles became apparent when he attended a high- bike raceawakened in the USA. In Germany he successfully competed in cycling himself and built a velodrome as well as a school and show bike track in Frankfurt . In 1881 he founded the Frankfurt Bicycle Club .

In 1886 Kleyer brought his first bicycle onto the market under the brand name Adler - a low bike in contrast to the high bikes that were still in use at the time. Kleyer was the first in Germany to equip bicycles with pneumatic tires and in 1893 was a co-founder of the Hanau- based Dunlop Pneumatic Tire Comp. GmbH . From 1898 he was involved in the development of motorcycles and automobiles ; the manufacture of cars began in 1900.

In addition, Heinrich Kleyer recognized the economic importance of the typewriter for the industrially developing Germany very early on . As early as the years 1898 to 1900, Adler Fahrradwerke was producing vorm. Heinrich Kleyer developed the first typewriter based on the Canadian Empire by Wellington Parker Kidder (a bumper machine ), which, however, was qualitatively improved within a short time and later as Adler Mod. 7 found great sales.

Around 1895 the company was transferred to a public limited company under the Company Adlerwerke front. Heinrich Kleyer AG converted.

Heinrich Kleyer was born in 1882 with Elvira. Biernatzki (1863–1942) married. The marriage resulted in three sons and five daughters. His son Erwin Kleyer (1888–1975) succeeded him on the board of directors of Adlerwerke, and he also emerged as a racing driver and patron of the arts. He was married to Bertel Kleyer, who designed children's books . Heinrich Kleyer died in Frankfurt am Main in 1932. His grave is located in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

After the Second World War , Erwin Kleyer and Willy Hof from the Adlerwerke conducted negotiations with the US occupation forces for the construction of the high-rise triangle at Baseler Platz on the former factory premises.

Honors

In 1911 Heinrich Kleyer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt .

1967 in Frankfurt am Main , Heinrich-Kleyer School opened a Vocational grammar school and a vocational school for engineering , metal , precision engineering , Automotion , optometry and rail operations . Kleyerstraße is named after him in Darmstadt. The Kleyerquartier has been under construction in the Gallusviertel in Frankfurt since 2014 .

Fonts

  • The history of the bicycle . Rad-Welt publishing house, Berlin 1917.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 100 years of Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention , p. 143.Bochum, 1963.
  2. ^ Sigrid Meyer zu Knolle: The tamed vertical. Materials for early high-rise construction in Frankfurt. Dissertation, Marburg 1998, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Kleyer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleyer, Heinrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1932
Place of death Frankfurt am Main