Max Fremery

Max Fremery (born March 29, 1859 in Cologne , † March 1, 1932 in Baden-Baden ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur.

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Fremery came from a Huguenot family. His father was a merchant and wine merchant in Cologne. He received his doctorate in chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau and then worked in England, among other places.

He developed filaments in Rotterdam at Electriciteits Maatschappij, where he met the engineer Johann Urban . Both took over a light bulb factory in Gelnhausen and founded their own light bulb factory in Oberbruch in 1891 . They found a method to produce artificial silk ( cupro ) from cellulose dissolved in copper oxide-ammonia ( Schweizer's reagent ). Both initially produced the fiber in Oberbruch and founded the United Glanzstoff factories in Elberfeld in 1899 . That was the beginning of the German rayon and synthetic fiber production. Production increased rapidly and licenses were granted to France and Austria. In 1911 they took over the “Fürst Guido Donnersmarckschen Kunstseiden- und Acetatwerke” in Sydowsaue near Stettin and shortly afterwards they switched the production to viscose fiber (by buying up and further developing the patents). In 1912, Fremery resigned from the company's board of directors for health reasons.

In Cologne-Bickendorf , Max-Fremery-Strasse is named after him, as is Dr. Max-Fremery-Str. in Kelsterbach .

Web links

Horst Beau: Fremery, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 400 f. ( Digitized version ).
Willi Stucke: Max Fremery. Chemist and entrepreneur, pioneer of the German chemical fiber industry . Dissertation, University of Stuttgart 2001

Individual evidence

↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 155, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .

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SURNAME	Fremery, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1932
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[Pötsch-1] Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 155, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .