Max Edelmann

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Max Edelmann (born November 28, 1874 in Munich ; † September 16, 1940 there ) was a German manufacturer of scientific instruments.

Life

Max Edelmann was the younger son of the physicist Max Thomas Edelmann . He attended the humanistic Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1885 and passed the Abitur examination in 1894, with Jussuf Murad Bey Ibrahim , Benno Bing , Fritz Bühlmann , Ludwig Merzbacher , Michael Ostheimer , who later became lieutenant colonel in the Turkish service, Ernst Paraquin (1876-1956) and the future writer Arthur Schubart (1876–1937). He then studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . Like his father and older brother Otto, he became a member of the Corps Germania Munich in 1894 . In 1898 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1900 to 1903 he was a volunteer assistant at the electrical engineering laboratory at the Technical University of Munich. He was later appointed professor.

After the death of his father in 1913, he initially became a partner in the company. M. Th. Edelmann & Sohn, Physico-Mechanical Institute, manufacture of scientific instruments of our own design in Munich. After the First World War he decisively developed the electrocardiograph , which the company had been working on since 1903 , making "Edelmann" a leading manufacturer of EKG devices.

He was a court-sworn expert for the entire automotive industry. In the trade association for precision mechanics and electrical engineering, he was the deputy representative of Section 10. He was also a lecturer at the Munich Adult Education Center . In the First World War he took part as a first lieutenant in the Landwehr (intelligence force); In 1918 he was assigned to the Bavarian Ministry of War. He was married to Emilie, née Graf (2 sons).

Awards

literature

  • Edelmann, Max. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 369.
  • Edelmann, Max. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 519.
  • Florian Köhler, Max Edelmann: Physico-Mechanical Institute Max Th. Edelmann, Munich - applied science . In: Edition Bayern - Industriekultur in Bayern , special issue # 05, 2012, pp. 90–95 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Herpich and Hans Schmuck: 100 Years of Corps Germania in Munich, Festschrift on November 14, 1963 , Ingolstadt 1963, p. 67, (No. 186 of the Germania Corps List 1863–1963)
  2. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1893/94
  3. ↑ (1870-1928); Abitur at Maximiliansgymnasium 1889, Dr. phil .; Prof. for electrical engineering
  4. ↑ Chair of communications engineering at the Technical University of Munich


personal data
SURNAME Nobleman, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer of scientific instruments
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1940
Place of death Munich