Hugo Maihak

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Hugo Maihak (born May 19, 1858 in Myslitz, Upper Silesia - today Myslowitz , † November 22, 1912 in Hamburg ) was a German entrepreneur whose corporate philosophy made a significant contribution to establishing the standard of "German workmanship". The eponymous Maihak indicators are used today on many ships and a large number of silos are still with M aihak- B unkerstand- A nzeigern (short: MBA ) equipped.

biography

Hugo Maihak was born as the son of wealthy parents in Myslitz (Upper Silesia), which at that time had about 4000 inhabitants. Thanks to Hugo Maihak's parents, who were very open-minded at the time, and stable family ties, he was practically born with an academic professional training. After primary school, he attended the trade school in Brzeg , which was reopened in 1863, about 160 km away . It quickly became apparent that Hugo Maihak was aiming for an engineering education with a great technical and commercial understanding. His parents therefore sent him to the building academy in Berlin in 1877, which was renamed the building academy and trade institute a year later . This later became the Technical University of Charlottenburg , the forerunner of the TU Berlin .

Hugo Maihak studied mechanical engineering until 1883 , a relatively new area of ​​technical sciences at the Bauakademie Berlin. There he got to know the new inventions: the electromagnetic telegraph, a joint development of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891); the unit of measurement for resistance, discovered by Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854) and the first carbon filament light bulb by the precision mechanic Heinrich Goebel (1818–1893). He later worked personally with the generation of similar inventors: with Nikolaus August Otto , with Ernst Werner von Siemens , Gottlieb Daimler , Carl Benz (1844–1929) and Wilhelm Maybach .

Hugo Maihak experienced the beginnings of his own company, which he founded on his own land in Hamburg, but died at the age of 54 on November 22, 1912.

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Even during his studies in Berlin, Hugo Maihak was fascinated by measurement technology in connection with precision mechanics . After his studies he improved the construction of the machine indicator that the English mechanic and instrument maker James Watt had used in connection with the improvement of the steam engine . With the pressure diagram recorder, as the Maihak indicator was also called, the course of the steam pressure in the cylinder of a piston engine (e.g. ship's engine) could be recorded very precisely. The move from Berlin to Hamburg also took place at this time. In the port of Hamburg, Hugo Maihak found the customers he needed for his machine indicators: shipping companies and ship owners. The economic foundation for this development was laid in 1885 by the mechanical engineer Georg Klug and his partner Hugo Maihak. They founded a technical office on Rödingsmarkt in Hamburg for the import and sale of fittings and measuring devices. As a partner, Maihak acquired this trading company in 1890 and called it "H. Maihak Hamburg, machine shop and technical bureau, apparatus construction company". During this time Hugo Maihak received many awards: Golden Medal Kiel 1894, Golden Medal Lübeck 1895, Silver Medal Kiel 1896 and Golden Medal Paris 1897. The different versions of the device were used in many branches of industry; thus the Maihak indicator was finally known worldwide.

Maihak later expanded the product range to include hot spring indicators from the American Geo H. Crosby from Boston and named his company "H.Maihak Crosby-Warenhaus". There you could also get the famous Crosby triad steam whistles, which could soon be heard on almost all ships.

Further ideas that Hugo Maihak had brought to market in the meantime were the Maihak continuous vibrating string measuring devices (MDS) and initial studies on a gas analyzer (later called MONO) as well as on the still known Maihak bunker level indicators, the MBA.

Share over RM 1000 in H. Maihak AG from November 1941

At the turn of the century, the company underwent a decisive structural change. From the pure trading operation, a manufacture for fittings and technical measuring instruments emerged , which Hugo Maihak converted into H. Maihak Aktiengesellschaft in 1910 . With this production and repair company, Maihak manufactured the machine indicators that he had improved in terms of design for all branches of industry. The steady growth of the company required ever larger premises. Maihak and his company moved from Rödingsmarkt to Große Reichenstraße , rented an additional production hall in Grevenweg and finally settled in what was then the outskirts of Hamburg on their own land with 125 employees in Geibelstrasse. Another office building soon became necessary at Semperstrasse 24–38, and Hugo Maihak himself laid the foundation stone for it. Hugo Maihak died a short time later in 1912 at the age of 54.

The company H. Maihak Aktiengesellschaft, later renamed Maihak AG , manufactured various "measuring instruments and devices for precision mechanics and electrical engineering" in the following decades: fuel pumps, irons, level measuring devices, torsion measuring devices, measuring devices for building control, recording studio equipment such as amplifiers, low-noise slide controls, tape recorders, sound transmission equipment, gas analyzers, water analyzers. Today the analyzers are still produced by the Sick AG group and sold worldwide.

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SURNAME Maihak, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Myslitz, Upper Silesia - today Myslowitz
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1912
Place of death Hamburg