Hugo Luther

Hugo Luther (* 18th November 1849 in Wolfenbüttel ; † the thirtieth June 1901 in Goslar ; Complete name: Hugo Wilhelm Adolf Luther ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and business owners .

life and work

He was the son of mill construction pioneer Gottlieb Luther (1813–1879), who founded the mill construction company Luther & Peters in Wolfenbüttel in 1852 . Hugo Luther attended high school in Wolfenbüttel, gained practical experience in his father's business and then studied mechanical engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic and the Technical University of Munich from 1869 to 1873 . He worked as an engineer in Vienna and during his subsequent stay in Temesvar he dealt with the construction and construction of river dredgers.

Management and expansion of the company

Luther works
The Luther works on a map of the city of Braunschweig, 1899.

In 1875 he returned to his father's company, which had moved to Braunschweig, of which he became sole owner in 1879 after his father's death. The company, run under the company G. Luther, Maschinenfabrik und Mühlenbauanstalt ( Luther-Werke ), moved into new halls on Frankfurter Strasse at the end of 1877 with 80 employees. One of the leading companies in the fields of mill, turbine and storage construction as well as the manufacture of port equipment emerged. In 1888 the company was converted into a limited partnership . The three limited partners Ernst Amme , Carl Giesecke and Julius Konegen left in 1894 and founded the rival company Amme, Giesecke & Konegen (AGK) in Braunschweig . In return, the Luther works expanded in 1897 by taking over the Mühlenbauanstalt and Maschinenfabrik vorm. Brothers Seck in Zschachwitzer district Sporbitz (since 1950 the district of Dresden ). A world-renowned company was created, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1898 . In the same year Hugo Luther was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal by the Association of German Engineers (VDI) . Luther withdrew from the company a year later for health reasons and died in 1901.

In 1925, Luther-Werke became part of Mühlenbau und Industrie AG ( MIAG ) .

In Braunschweig, Hugo-Luther-Strasse was named after him in 1935.

literature

• Michael Mende: Luther, Hugo . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 393 f .
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Hugo Luther . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 90.
• Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss:  Luther, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 543 f. ( Digitized version ).