Hugo Brehmer

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Hugo Brehmer, photograph by Robert Hummel, before 1891

Hugo Brehmer (born 26 or October 27, 1844 in Lübeck ; † December 24. 1891 in Leipzig ) was a German mechanical engineering - entrepreneur and inventor . His career can always be seen closely with his brother August Brehmer , who is two years his junior , who together founded the Brehmer Brothers company and who also had largely the same qualifications.

Life

Hereditary funeral of the Brehmer family in the Leipzig-Plagwitz cemetery

Hugo Brehmer was the son of the tenant Friedrich Brehmer in Falkenhusen near Lübeck; Nikolaus Heinrich Brehmer was his grandfather. In 1860 Hugo Brehmer began training as a locksmith and mechanical engineer at the Lübeck-Büchener railway company . In 1865 the Brehmer brothers worked as locksmiths at Borsig in Berlin . From 1866 to 1868 they attended the foremen's school in Chemnitz and then went on a journey separately for about two years .

Around 1870 August Brehmer first moved to the USA to work for the entrepreneur and inventor Henry R. Heyl in Philadelphia . After Brehmer developed a folding box with wire stitching on behalf of his employer , Heyl founded the Novelty Paper Box Company . At Brehmer's suggestion, the company also had his brother Hugo come to Philadelphia. In order to be able to produce the folding boxes, Hugo Brehmer invented a wire stitching machine in 1872 . The Novelty Paper Box Company initially leased the production facilities with the machines to the Brehmer brothers, and in 1873 these became the independent company Brehmer Brothers . In 1875 Hugo Brehmer further developed his invention into the first wire stitching machine for book production; the first book produced with these machines was the main catalog for the 1876 ​​World's Fair in Philadelphia.

In the spring of 1879, Brehmer and his brother moved to Leipzig and opened the Brehmer Brothers company in the western suburb of Lindenau , which began to manufacture bookbinding machines. During the German Empire , the company developed into an important company in the west of Leipzig.

family

Hugo Brehmer was married to Friedericke Elisabeth Magdalena Spilhaus (1843–1923) from Lübeck. His brother Hermann Brehmer (1839–1897) married their sister Auguste Wilhelmina Marie Spilhaus (1849–1925). The two sisters had four other siblings, one of whom was the businessman Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus .

literature

  • Wilhelm Owl: Hugo Bremer. A pioneer in the graphic machine industry. On the 100th birthday on October 26, 1944. (Special from: "Das Deutsche Buchgewerbe", born 1944, issue 5/6.) Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1944.
  • [Red.]:  Brehmer, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 570 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Eule 1944, pp. 10-11.
  2. ^ Margaret Whiting Spilhaus (ed.): Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus: Reminiscences and Family Records , Standard Press, Cape Town 1950.
personal data
SURNAME Brehmer, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1891
Place of death Leipzig