Max Körting
Max Körting (born September 19, 1862 in Leipzig ; † May 4, 1948 there ) was a German entrepreneur in lighting technology.
His father, Eduard Körting († 1876), had a joinery with around 30 journeymen. After his untimely death Max had to finish secondary school in 3rd grade at Easter 1877 in order to work. By chance an apprenticeship position became available at the precision engineering workshop for physical apparatus Franz Hugershoff . From May 1884 to September 1886 he then worked at Carl Zeiss . He then worked for the Schumann & Köppe company in Leipzig until January 1888 , which had brought out an original arc lamp design. Here he met Wilhelm Mathiesen (1859–1936), who had studied electrical engineering in more detail during his private studies and was working on a redesign of the arc lamp . Körting then became an assistant director at Mey & Co. in Leipzig.
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Körting's family raised a start-up capital of 13,000 marks and on August 1, 1889 they founded the company Körting & Mathiesen . The first dozen of their new arc lamps had been pre-ordered and prepaid by their competitors by the end of the year. The company manufactured, sold and offered services for lighting technology, in particular arc lamps and Beck spotlights, electricity meters, transformers and copier equipment. In 1893 they had their 10,000. Arc lamp sold and at Christmas the company moved with about 40 furniture vans to the western part of Leutzsch .
In 1897 arc lamp headlights were built, initially for theaters and later large headlights for the Imperial Navy (from 1912 with Heinrich Beck ). During the First World War, the optical institute CP Goerz took over headlight production.
April 1925, former employees of the company Dr. Dietz & Ritter GmbH Leipzig O 27, factory for radio products and transformers founded, in which he took a 20% stake when it was founded. Körting radios were built from 1932 . Oswald Ritter acquired the Körting shares in the late 1930s.
literature
- Charlotte Böker: Körting, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 401 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ulrich Krüger, Gabriele Leech-Anspach: The Leipzig entrepreneur Max Körting and his work . Sax-Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-008-1 .
Web links
- From the company history of Körting & Mathiesen , Heinrich-Beck-Institut GmbH
- History of the Leipzig company "Körting & Mathiesen" ("KANDEM")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charlotte Böker: Körting, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 401 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ http://www.radiosalon.de/html/aktuelles.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körting, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1948 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |