Louis Eilers

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The letters LEH for Louis Eilers Hanover above the entrance to the administration building of Louis Eilers Stahlbau

Louis Eilers (born April 19, 1844 in Hanover ; † April 27, 1917 there ) was a German master locksmith and entrepreneur who founded the later company Louis Eilers Stahlbau .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Louis Eilers went on a hike and worked in Paris for two years, among other things . He experienced the Franco-German War as a soldier. In 1871 he founded a workshop on Osterstrasse in Hanover, where he made locksmith and art blacksmith work as well as his first small iron constructions.

"Due to the rapid increase in the use of iron after the invention of Thomas steel , especially in industrial and transport structures, as well as the favorable order situation", Eilers enlarged and relocated his company several times from 1881 onwards. His “workshop for iron constructions” (from 1884) finally moved in 1901 to the approximately seven-hectare manufacturing facility on Entenfangweg in the Ledeburg district .

Eilers was - with Conrad Bube and Albert Knoevenagel - co-founders of the Association for the Monitoring of Steam Boilers , the forerunner of the TÜV . He was also a senator and councilor of commerce . Louis Eilers is buried in the Engesohde city cemetery, Section 15, No. 160 a – h.

Honors

In 1972, parts of the Entenfangweg and Jobstweg, where Eilers had built his factory, were renamed Eilersweg .

literature

  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Eilers, Louis. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 107; on-line
  • Eilers. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 132, 140, 151, 177, 284, 322; on-line
  • Eilers. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. From the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Numbers, data, facts. Pp. 374, 379, 381, 558, 850; on-line
  • Louis Eilers, factory for iron building and bridge construction. 1907.
  • Louis Eilers factory for iron building and bridge construction (Ed.): Bridge construction. Hanover- Herrenhausen around 1953.
  • Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix : Home chronicle of the city of Hanover. Cologne 1956, p. 361ff.
  • Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), p. 235f.
  • Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Hanover 1995, p. 68 u.ö.
  • Ludwig Hoerner: Bahnhofshalle, Hanover Central Station, around 1881. In: Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 224f. (with two pictures of the roofing of the track systems)
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eilers - Louis E. Stahlbau GmbH & Co. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 182.
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : German Steel Construction Day in Hanover , in: Stahlbau , 84th year (2015), no. 2, pp. 143–151.

Web links

Commons : Louis Eilers Stahlbau (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eilers, Louis. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , s. literature
  2. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eilers, Louis. In: Hanover Chronicle (see literature)
  3. ^ A b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eilers, Louis. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 152
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bube, Conrad. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 75
personal data
SURNAME Eilers, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master locksmith and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1917
Place of death Hanover