Max Levy (engineer)
Max Levy (born June 23, 1869 in Stargard in Pomerania ; † April 4, 1932 in Meran , South Tyrol ) was a German electrical engineer and manufacturer.
Life
Levy was the son of Stargard banker Moritz Levy (1832-1905) and brother of Oscar Levy and Emil Elias Levy . After attending the local humanistic grammar school, Levy studied physics and mathematics in Heidelberg from 1888, then electrical engineering at the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Munich. In Darmstadt in 1891 he graduated as a graduate engineer and received his doctorate in Gießen in 1892.
Levy joined the electricity company in 1892 . Schuckert & Co. moved to Nuremberg and in 1893 went to the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ) in Berlin, where he was entrusted with the planning of large electrical systems. In 1896 he took over the management of the newly founded AEG X-ray department. Levy invented, among other things, a mercury beam interrupter with an adjustable current circuit duration and founded the Dr. Max Levy GmbH for X-ray machines as the first specialist company of its kind in Germany. From 1914 a wide range of drive technology for machine tools, generators, sewing machines and fans. Production resumed from 1945. Today the company exists under the name Tornado Antriebstechnik GmbH in Berlin.
Since 1898 he lived on Chausseestrasse. In 1914 he moved to Brückenallee, and later to Königsallee.
In 1900 she married Josephine Rathenau , a cousin of the German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and a granddaughter of Max Liebermann's aunt Therese.
In 1918 Levy joined the newly founded German Democratic Party (DDP) together with his wife Josephine Levy-Rathenau .
Levy married Clare Hagelberg in 1925. The marriage had two children: Günter Ernst and Ellen Lore.
He is buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery in Berlin .
Fonts (selection)
- Contribution to the use of the differential galvanometer. Dissertation. Giessen 1892.
- X-ray screening of the human body for medical diagnostic purposes. Lecture. 1896.
- as editor: Josephine Levy-Rathenau in memory . [Berlin: sn, 1921].
- 1897 - 1922: Factory of electrical machines and apparatus . [S. l., sn], 1922.
literature
- Hans Jaeger: Levy, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 404 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
- Dieter G. Maier, Jürgen Nürnberger: Oscar and Max Levy. Europeans and 'Nietzsche apostles' - patriot and entrepreneur . Berlin 2014, ( Jewish miniatures , volume 152), ISBN 978-3-95565-064-3 .
- Jürgen Nürnberger, Dieter G. Maier: Through the women's movement for career advice - Josephine Levy-Rathenau (1877-1921), a social politician from the Rathenau family, biography and bibliography, excursus: Max Levy - engineer and entrepreneur . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2016, ( Shaper of Labor Market Policy , Volume 6), ISBN 978-3-929153-86-6 .
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SURNAME | Levy, Max |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer and manufacturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stargard in Pomerania |
DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1932 |
Place of death | Meran , South Tyrol |