Julius Konegen

Julius Konegen (born July 1, 1857 in Königsberg , East Prussia, † May 9, 1916 in Braunschweig ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

life and work

Konegen studied mechanical engineering from 1878 to 1881 at the trade academy and the Technical University of Berlin that emerged from it . He worked in the Braunschweig machine factory and mill construction company G. Luther as a designer , works manager, foreign representative and later became a limited partner . He left this company in 1894 and founded the mill construction company Amme, Giesecke & Konegen (AGK) in Braunschweig together with his former work colleagues Ernst Amme and Carl Giesecke the following year . Konegen was primarily involved in the company's rapidly growing success as the developer of a flour sifting and sorting system. In 1911 he was appointed to the magistrate by the city of Braunschweig as an unpaid (honorary) councilor . He was a member of the Braunschweig Freemason Lodge Carl zum Crowned Pillar . During the First World War , the AGK largely switched its production to armaments. Konegen died in 1916.

Konegen tomb in the main cemetery in Braunschweig

Awards

The Technical University of Braunschweig awarded Konegen an honorary doctorate in 1909 . The Julius-Konegen-Strasse in Braunschweig is named after him.

literature

• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Julius Konegen. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 132 .
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 340 .