Hermann Voith

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Hermann Voith (* 1878 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † 1942 ) was a German entrepreneur . He was a son of Friedrich Voith and in 1906 was accepted into the management of the Voith company, which is active in mechanical engineering .

Hermann Voith was the second oldest of three sons of the entrepreneur Friedrich Voith. His older brother was Walther Voith , his younger Hanns Voith . Hermann attended elementary and Latin school in Heidenheim and graduated from the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1897 . He then studied law in Tübingen , Strasbourg , Kiel and Heidelberg . In Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1898 . In 1903 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. After military service, he joined his father's company, where he worked in various commercial departments and became the closest employee of the then commercial director Gottschick. For several months he got to know the JM Voith representative office in Manchester , and in 1911/12 he was in the USA and Canada.

After Walther Voith had been managing the factory in Austria since 1904, Hermann was accepted into the management in 1906. In 1912, Friedrich transformed the company into a general partnership and endorsed both the majority of its shares. Friedrich Voith died in 1913 and only a month later the third son, Hanns, was accepted into the management. Hermann was responsible for the commercial matters of the Heidenheim parent company and Hanns was responsible for the technical department in Heidenheim.

literature

  • Anne Nieberding: Corporate culture in the German Empire. The JM Voith foundry and the paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. (= series of publications for the journal for corporate history 9 ), Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49630-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 457
  2. ^ Anne Nieberding: Corporate culture in the empire. The JM Voith foundry and the paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. , Beck, Munich 2003, p. 62.
  3. ^ Anne Nieberding: Corporate culture in the empire. The JM Voith foundry and the paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. , Beck, Munich 2003, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Voith, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH 1942