Jacob Berliner

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Jacob Berliner (born March 31, 1849 in Hanover ; † September 2, 1918 there ) was a German businessman.

history

Jacob was a son of the businessman Samuel Berliner and brother of Emil and Joseph , Manfred and the uncle of Cora Berliner .

After he returned seriously wounded from the Franco-German War in 1870/71 as a soldier in the “Hamburg” Infantry Regiment (2nd Hanseatic) No. 76 , he began trading rawhide. From the end of 1880, Brother Emil supplied the Deutsche Reichspost with microphones ( transmitters ). In 1883 Jacob became the commercial director of the J. Berliner Telephonfabrik, founded by Emil and Joseph two years earlier, in Kniestrasse in Hanover. In 1898 he began to prepare the industrial production of lead wires according to Louis Hackethal and two years later he and his two brothers founded the Hackethal-Draht-Gesellschaft .

In addition to his commercial activities, Jacob Berliner had been a member of the board of the Jewish charity since 1885 and at the same time a member of the board of the synagogue community .

Jacob is buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .

literature

Web links

  • English page about the origin and development of the J. Berliner Telephon-Fabrik with a photo from the Kniestrasse

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dirk Böttcher: Hannoversches biographical lexicon ; P. 54
  2. ↑ Commemorative Book of the Franco-German War of 1870–71 for the German Israelites , ed. by the editors of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums , Bonn: self-published by the editors of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, 1871, p. XXXI; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berliner, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1918
Place of death Hanover