Max Haller (engineer)

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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.

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personal data
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