Max Gebbert

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Max Gebbert, around 1900
Grave of Max Gebbert in the Neustädter Friedhof in Erlangen

Max Gebbert (* March 2, 1856 in Rothaus ; † March 11, 1907 in Erlangen , full name Julius Max Gotthard Gebbert ) was a German mechanic and co-founder of the company Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall in Erlangen. A central downtown street in Erlangen is named after Max Gebbert.

Life

Julius Max Gotthard Gebbert was born in Rothaus near Neisse in Upper Silesia as the son of a chief forester. From 1872 he completed an apprenticeship with the optician and mechanic Max Rauch, which he completed in 1875 with a license as a mechanic. He then worked for three years at various workshops and companies in Berlin. From 1878 to 1881 he did his military service in Potsdam. The following years of travel took him to Geneva, Strasbourg and Paris, where he made the mechanic Karl Friedrich Schall as a friend. However, they postponed the plan to set up a factory together because Max Gebbert wanted to try his luck in the USA first. In 1883 Gebbert left for New York, but only stayed there until the beginning of 1885, as business in the USA was not very profitable.

After his return in 1885, Gebbert joined the mechanic's workshop of his friend Schall in Stuttgart as an equal partner, which from then on was called "Gebbert & Schall" and manufactured electromedical and similar devices: galvanometers , forehead, mouth and larynx lamps , batteries, resistors, demonstration devices , medical induction apparatus for galvanization , faradization, caustics , microscope lamps etc. At a conference in September 1885 in Strasbourg, Gebbert and Schall met Erwin Moritz Reiniger , who had been running a workshop for electrical and physical apparatus in Erlangen since 1877. The three merged on January 1, 1886 to form the general partnership “United physical-mechanical workshops Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall - Erlangen, Stuttgart, New York” (RGS). The workshops in Stuttgart and New York were soon given up. In the joint company, Reiniger was responsible for commercial matters, Schall for construction and sales and Gebbert for production, because he had acquired in-depth knowledge of production technology during his years of traveling.

Karl Schall left the company in 1887 and founded his own business in London, which took over the distribution of RGS products in Great Britain. Reiniger left RGS in 1895 and bought a light bulb factory in Munich, which he ran without success. Max Gebbert was now a sole trader.

Shortly after the discovery of X-rays in 1895, Gebbert began to focus production on X-ray tubes and devices, which ensured further economic success for him.

In 1886 Max Gebbert married Marie Ritz. The two had four sons and a daughter. From 1900 to 1905 Gebbert was a member of the Erlangen municipal council.

Max Gebbert died of a stroke in 1907 and was buried in the Neustädter Friedhof in Erlangen.

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SURNAME Gebbert, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebbert, Julius Max Gotthard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mechanic and co-founder of the Schall company
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothaus (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1907
Place of death gain