Louis Bode (manufacturer)

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Louis Bode (born August 31, 1839 in Hanover ; died April 19, 1900 there ) was a German engineer and manufacturer .

Life

" Bode & Troue / Owner: Engineer L. Bode"; Bird's eye view of the factory on Engelbosteler Damm at the corner of Vordere Schöneworth; Rob's
Lithographic Art Institute . Leunis & Chapman ; around 1900

Louis Bode studied mechanical engineering in Berlin and at the Polytechnic School in Hanover and then worked as an engineer for several years. He used various study trips abroad to train himself in the manufacture of safes.

Shortly after the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover , Louis Bode and the locksmith Heinrich Troue founded the company Bode & Troue in 1868 , the first German special factory for the production of armored boxes , fire-proof and burglar-proof steel chambers and the like.

After a good three decades, Bode's company was able to raise the 25,000 in 1899. Deliver the safe. Under him, the company premises on Engelbosteler Damm were expanded several times.

On October 12, 1876, Bode's son Hermann Bode was born in Hanover, who further expanded the company as a stock corporation under the name Bode-Panzer, Geldänkefabriken AG, Hanover - Hamburg - Berlin .

literature

  • Albert Lefevre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), p. 293
  • Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank, Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 161

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Bode, Louis in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on July 5, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Bode, (2) Louis , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 60
  3. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bode, (1) Hermann , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 59
personal data
SURNAME Bode, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and association official
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1900
Place of death Hanover