Max Knoevenagel

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Max Knoevenagel (born November 3, 1856 - † December 20, 1951 ) was a German machine manufacturer in Hanover . After the death of his father Albert Knoevenagel in 1907 until his own death in 1951, he was in charge of the Knoevenagel engineering works.

Life path

Max Knoevenagel was the son of Albert Knoevenagel and his wife Minna Knoevenagel, nee Niemeyer (born December 31, 1827; † April 22, 1907), heir to the Knoevenagel machine factory in Hanover, which his father founded. He was the husband of Adele Uhlenhuth (born August 10, 1871; † July 9, 1949), a sister of the hygienist Paul Uhlenhuth (1870-1957), and thus brother-in-law of the agricultural scientist Emil Krüger (1855-1925).

Max and Adele Knoevenagel had the following children:

  • Margarete ("Grete") Cramer, b. Knoevenagel, (born August 22, 1893 - † November 28, 1980), married to Dr.-Ing. Karl-Friedrich ("Fritz") Cramer, (born June 28, 1884 - † January 2, 1963)
  • Albert (junior; born October 29, 1894; † March 3, 1945), married to Hildegard ("Hilli") Knoevenagel, b. Mehrhardt, (born September 20, 1897 - † March 3, 1945)
  • Hildegard ("Hilla") Mehrhardt, b. Knoevenagel (born June 28, 1898 - July 1, 1983), married to Karl-Heinrich, (called: Karl-Heinz), Mehrhardt

Max and Adele Knoevenagel lived on Alleestr. 1 in Hanover across from Villa Knoevenagel . The Villa Knoevenagel at today's address Alleestraße 36 in Hanover was designed in 1887 by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase as a neo-Gothic brick building. The client was the chemist Ferdinand Fischer . Only a few years after its completion, in 1892, the manufacturer Albert Knoevenagel bought the villa and gave it to his son Max Knoevenagel that same year.

In July 1905 Knoevenagel received the patent with the number K. 29 886 for a “pump with a positively controlled rotary inlet valve”.

In 1905 Max Knoevenagel was chairman of the Hanover District Association of German Engineers and at the same time chairman of the Association of Technical and Scientific Associations in Hanover. In 1931 he was awarded the VDI Badge of Honor, created by the Association of German Engineers (VDI) on the occasion of its 75th anniversary in the same year. In 1950 Max Knoevenagel was made an honorary member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Grave site of Max and Adele Knoevenagel in the Engesohde city cemetery

Until his death on December 20, 1951, at the age of 96, Max Knoevenagel was in charge of Maschinenfabrik Knoevenagel. His successor as managing director from 1951 to 1959 was his son-in-law Karl-Heinrich Mehrhardt. The Knoevenagel company was supposed to take over Max's first son Albert, who died (at the same time as his wife Hildegard) in a bomb attack on Hanover in March 1945. Margarete and her husband Fritz could not or did not want to continue the company for unknown reasons, so they took over Max's daughter Hildegard and her husband Karl-Heinrich Mehrhardt.

Max Knoevenagel is buried in the municipal cemetery in Hanover-Engesohde .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Glückauf", Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift, No. 21, 42nd year, Essen (Ruhr), May 26, 1906; http://delibra.bg.polsl.pl/Content/10492/P-480_1906-1_AP21.pdf  ; accessed on March 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Dr.-Ing. Ludwig Croon (Oberbaurat) (Hrsg.), "Eight decades of Hanover District Association of German Engineers" on the occasion of the general meeting of the VdI 1951 in Hanover dedicated to the Hanover District Association in gratitude, Hanover 1951, pp. 47–51, https://archive.org / details / CIA-RDP83-00415R004800030001-4 / page / n117 /  ; accessed on March 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Knoevenagel, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1856
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1951