Max Büssing

Max Büssing (born March 18, 1872 in Braunschweig ; † October 5, 1934 there ) was a German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur as well as an honorary senator of the Technical University of Braunschweig .

Life

Max Büssing was the son of the inventor and entrepreneur Heinrich Büssing , who is considered a pioneer in the field of truck and bus construction . He attended the Herzogliche Neue Gymnasium in his hometown , but switched to the Herzogliche Gymnasium Martino-Katharineum at Easter 1888 . He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden and the Technical University of Braunschweig and was active in the Corps Teutonia Dresden and Teutonia-Hercynia Braunschweig during his studies .

From 1929 until his death in 1934, Büssing and his brother Ernst managed Büssing AG, which his father had founded and which later became part of the MAN Group .

Honors

The Technical University of Braunschweig awarded Max Büssing the title of Honorary Senator on June 29, 1923 and an honorary doctorate on January 4, 1928 (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) On the basis of his services .

literature

• Reich manual of German society . Volume 1 (A – K), Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930. (as microfiche edition: KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .) (As digital copy : Finckenstein & Salmuth, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978- 3-934-88230-0 .)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ducal New High School in Braunschweig (ed.): School news of the Ducal New High School in Braunschweig. From Michaelis 1887 to Easter 1889. Johann Heinrich Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1889, p. 17.
2. ^ Georg Becker: 100 years of Weinheim senior citizens' convention. Weinheimer Verband Alter Corpsstudenten eV, Bochum 1963, p. 143.
3. ^ University archive of the Technical University of Braunschweig: holdings B3. Files of the honorary senators or honorary citizens. ( Memento from February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Braunschweig, 2010, p. 8.