Max Jüdel

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Max Jüdel with signature
Brunswick railway signal construction institute Max Jüdel & Co around 1900

Max Jüdel (born October 10, 1845 in Braunschweig ; † October 9, 1910 there ) was a German industrialist and patron .

life and work

Jüdel was the son of the Jewish businessman Salomon Jüdel, who ran a manufacture and fashion store in Braunschweig. After graduating from school, he started working in his father's textile business and ran it from 1870.

Together with the engineer Heinrich Büssing as technical director, he founded the international railway signal construction institute Max Jüdel & Co on Wolfenbütteler Straße in 1873 . After just one year, the company moved to Ackerstraße in 1874, where 37,000 square meters of land was available. The 100th mechanical interlocking was delivered in 1880, followed by the thousandth in 1892. From 1893 onwards, electrical line or station blockworks and, from 1898 onwards, electrically powered points were produced. In 1898 the company became a stock corporation. The Berlin rival company Siemens & Halske signed an interest agreement with Jüdel & Co. in 1897. Jüdel presented the first electromechanical signal box in 1899. In 1903, the 60-year-old Büssing withdrew his capital from the company after having acquired 92 patents in the railway signaling sector over the past 30 years. With 1,300 employees in 1908, the company was one of the largest employers in Braunschweig.

Max Jüdel was a member of the Braunschweig state parliament and a member of the city council. From 1893 until his death in 1910 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce . The Technical University of Braunschweig awarded him on 26 November 1909 its performance as an entrepreneur honorary doctorate.

Jüdel was a Freemason in the Braunschweig Lodge Carl for the Crowned Pillar . He set up several foundations to support workers in need through no fault of their own and bequeathed his legacy to the city of Braunschweig as the basis for the “ Max Jüdel Foundation ”, whose interest income was used for social purposes. He bequeathed his villa in Adolfstrasse, which Constantin Uhde designed and which Jüdel had only acquired in 1904, to the city as a residence for the respective mayor. In 1872 he also founded the “Braunschweiger Carneval Club” , which is still active today as the Braunschweiger Carneval Society from 1872 . In 1888 he founded the Braunschweiger Baugenossenschaft , which is still today the cooperative with the largest housing stock in Braunschweig. In 1909, together with the Duchess Elisabeth, he laid the foundation stone for the state hospital for cripples, today the Duchess Elisabeth Hospital Foundation .

Afterlife

Street name in the southern part of Braunschweig.

During the Nazi era , Jüdel's foundation was renamed the “General Municipal Foundation”. The mayors Retemeyer , Trautmann and Böhme lived in the Jüdel Villa before it was used by their organizations after the NSDAP came to power . The air raids on Braunschweig during World War II destroyed the house.

Siemens & Halske took over the majority of Jüdel's company in 1928 and then took over the entire company in 1940. The Siemens plant in Braunschweig is still located today in Ackerstraße at the rear of the main train station, which was built in 1960, in what is now the Viewegs Garten-Bebelhof district . It has been part of the Siemens Mobility Division since 2014 .

Today's Schefflerstrasse in the Bebelhof was named after Max Jüdel from 1927 to 1938 . In 1945 the former Bückebergstraße in the Braunschweig Südstadt was renamed Jüdelstraße.

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Jüdel AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang H. Gebhardt: Büssing trucks and tractors 1903–1971. A documentation. Schrader, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-87183-1 , p. 7.
  2. The Masonic Lodge "Carl to the Crowned Pillar". at freimaurerei.de, accessed on April 7, 2013.