Max Braun (engineer)

Wilhelm Max Braun (born October 25, 1890 in Schillgallen , Heydekrug district , East Prussia; † November 6, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.

Braun founded the nucleus of the future electrical appliance manufacturer Braun in 1921 in Frankfurt-Bockenheim at Jordanstraße 12 .

He died suddenly of a heart attack in 1951 . After his death, the company was taken over by his sons Artur (1925–2013) and Erwin (1921–1992) and successfully continued. In 1967 they sold the company for 200 million DM to the US company The Gillette Company , which in turn was taken over in 2005 by the US group Procter & Gamble .

Both sons founded a Swiss company in 1961 that initially acted as a supplier for Braun electrical appliances. In 1999, the Swiss company was renamed Maxon , which as a short form of Max-Sohn alludes to the son (or sons Artur and Erwin) of Max Braun.

literature

The grave of Max and Mathilde Braun in the Bockenheim cemetery

• Claus C. Cobarg: From the simple workshop for apparatus construction to the world market leader , In: "Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main", publisher: KulturRegion Frankfurt under the direction of Sabine von Bebenburg and Lino G. Masala. Also published in: FITG-Journal, magazine of the Förderkreis Industrie- und Technikgeschichte eV, No. 02-2006, September 2006, p. 10 ff., FITG-Journal September 2006 ( Memento from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.0 MB).

Web links

• Brown, Wilhelm Max . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Entry in the commercial register of the apparatus construction workshop opened by Max Braun in Frankfurt am Main, May 1, 1921. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• On light food. , Article in: Der Spiegel. No. 45/1967