Max Haller (engineer)
Max Haller (born March 23, 1867 in Berlin ; † May 26, 1935 there ; full name: Wilhelm August Max Haller ) was a German engineer and manager .
Life
After studying at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , he completed an internship at the Berlin machine factory and the heating company Rietschel & Henneberg . In 1893 he started as a heating engineer at Gebrüder Körting AG and became director there after only five years. In 1911 he switched to the Siemens subsidiary Protos Automobile GmbH as technical manager . In the following year he became an authorized signatory of Siemens-Schuckertwerke . By shifting his tasks to the field of solving economic questions, he took over the management of central purchasing in 1915. In 1916 he became deputy managing director of Siemens-Schuckertwerke and from 1917 to 1920 he was a member of the board of Siemens & Halske AG and Siemens-Schuckertwerke. After all, from 1918 he was the director of the central financial administration of the entire group. In order to avoid losses due to inflation , he introduced Goldmark balances at Siemens as early as 1920 and, after the inflation ended, he established connections with the US capital market (including participating debentures ). Since 1926 he was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science . He was also a member of the Reich Coal Council , the admission office of the Berlin Stock Exchange, the board of directors of the German electronic industry and numerous other public corporations. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of numerous companies. a. the Eisenbahn-Signal-Bauanstalt vorm. Max Jüdell , the Siemens-Plania-Werke , the Eisenwerke Gaggenau and the United Lausitzer Glaswerke . On 29 July 1932, he was from the Technical University of Aachen , the honorary doctorate awarded. He was married to Elsbeth Wiens (1871–1937).
In 1929 he became a member of the Society of Friends , from which he resigned in 1933.
His final resting place (with a memorial by Hermann Hosaeus ) is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .
Fonts
- The losses of the German private sector due to inflation. 1924. (= special print from heating and cooling technology , issue 5)
- Capital and labor in industrial operations. (Economic study) Berlin 1926.
- Performance of the German economy and Dawes plan . Berlin 1929.
literature
- Ernst Waller: Haller, Wilhelm August Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 554 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georg Wenzel: German business leaders. Life courses of German business personalities , Hamburg 1930, p. 393
- 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. 398.
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Volume 4, Munich 2006, p. 384
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SURNAME | Haller, Max |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haller, Wilhelm August Max (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1867 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1935 |
Place of death | Berlin |