Johann Heinrich Dräger

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Johann Heinrich Dräger (born July 29, 1847 in Kirchwerder ; † May 29, 1917 in Lübeck ) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the Drägerwerk company .

Life

Heinrich was born as the son of the servant and watchmaker Ernst Friedrich Bernhard Dräger. From 1854 he attended the elementary school in Kirchwerder, where he attracted attention through his technical talent that was expressed early on. After the early death of his father in 1853, he completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker from 1863 and then continued his father's watchmaking workshop, which also represented Junghans . In 1879 he began building a sewing machine and selling the US American brand Singer . In 1881 he moved from Howe to Bergedorf , where he founded a shop for clocks, sewing machines and optical instruments. From 1886 he became a representative of the Bergedorf ironworks for dairy machines. His daughter, the painter Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt , was born in 1887.

The manufacture of beer pressure equipment attracted attention . In collaboration with his son Bernhard , who was born in Howe in 1870 , he sold these on a larger scale after completing his apprenticeship. Together with Carl Adolf Gerling and his son Bernhard, Dräger and Gerling founded the "Company for Technical Articles", he turned to compressed gas technology . The company registered a patent for the Lubeca valve as a pressure reducer . A key area of ​​application was beer dispensing systems using compressed air bottles , which led to the founding of the Lübecker Bierdruckapparate und Armaturenfabrik H. Dräger company in 1891 , of which he was the sole owner. Together with his son and business partners Rudolf and Heinrich Thiel , he founded the Deutsche Bierkaß-Automat Gesellschaft in 1895 .

In cooperation between father and son, who had meanwhile given up the production of beer pressure equipment, significant developments were made for the level of awareness of the Dräger company; Heinrich Dräger was the inventor of the Pulmotor oxygen resuscitation machine in 1907 .

As part of the transformation of his business model from dealer to producer, he acquired his own manufacturing facility. When his son Bernhard joined the management in 1902, the name changed to “Drägerwerk Heinr. and Bernh. Dräger ”, where he set up a workers ' committee as early as 1904 to represent workers' interests.

literature

  • Heinrich Dräger †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1916/17, No. 36, edition of June 3, 1917, p. 143.
  • (Johann) Heinrich Dräger: Memoirs , first published in 1914 by the Hamburg publishing house Alfred Janssen in the series "Hamburgische Hausbibliothek"
  • (Johann) Heinrich Dräger: Old stories from Vierlanden with ink drawings by Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt , published in 1917 by Verlag Alfred Janssen, Hamburg
  • Heinz Cordes: Johann Heinrich Dräger and Bernhard Dräger, two sons of Vierlande . In: Lichtwark No. 35. Ed. Bezirksamt Bergedorf, Bergedorf, 1972. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dräger: The history of the company
  2. ↑ Michael Kamp (Ed.): Bernhard Dräger: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Visionary. 1870 to 1928 . Wachholtz Verlag GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3-529-06369-5 . , P. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Dräger, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchwerder
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1917
Place of death Lübeck