Heinrich Mayer (entrepreneur)
Heinrich Wilhelm Mayer (born June 28, 1850 in Waldenbuch ; † August 4, 1911 in Winnenden ) was a Swabian industrial pioneer and entrepreneur .
biography
Heinrich Mayer began his career as a businessman in a Berlin lamp factory. Later he went into business for himself with his own lamp distributor. After moving to Stuttgart in 1884, he applied for a concession for a narrow-gauge horse-drawn tram . To this end, he and Ernst Lipken founded the new Stuttgart tram company Lipken und Cie. (NSS), which three years later merged with the Stuttgarter Pferde-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SPE) to form the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG .
With the profit from the tram business, Mayer founded Glashüttenwerke Adlerhütten H. Mayer & Co. , which was run as a stock corporation from 1896 .
Mayer founded Neckarwerke Elektrizitätsversorgung AG in 1899 . After the Neckarwerke was taken over by the Society for Electrical Companies from Berlin in 1906, Mayer lost its influence and left the company completely in 1908. He fell ill and needed psychiatric treatment. He died two years later.
Heinrich Mayer is considered an industrial pioneer in the Neckar region in the field of electrification and local public transport .
Web links
- Personal data of Heinrich Mayer from the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography (accessed on March 1, 2017)
- Heinrich Mayer at LEO-BW, the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (accessed on March 5, 2018)
literature
- Klaus Fehling : Great moments for successors: Entrepreneur stories (= parallel worlds series ). 1st edition. Luftschiff-Verlag, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-942792-02-8 , p. 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Marlis Prinzing-Preißl: Heinrich Wilhelm Mayer: A man under power. In: Esslinger Studies No. 20, 1981, p. 81 ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
Remarks
- ↑ Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte Vol. 57, 1998, p. 512 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swabian gas lamp manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldenbuch |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1911 |
| Place of death | Winnenden |