Max Mehler

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Max Mehler (born February 17, 1874 in Aachen ; † December 18, 1952 there ) was a German manufacturer.

Life

Max Mehler, son of the Kommerzienrat Carl Mehler, attended the secondary school in Aachen and then studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen and became a member of the Corps Delta Aachen. After graduating, he gained his first professional experience in Belgium over the next two years and then went to the United States for another year . After his return to Germany in 1900 he joined his father's mechanical engineering company , the Aachen mechanical engineering company C. Mehler GmbH , of which he became the owner and managing director. During the First World War he was at the front captain of the field artillery reserve .

Mehler was a commercial judge, member of the Aachen Chamber of Industry and Commerce , second deputy chairman of the Association of Rhenish Industrialists, member of the committee for commercial and industrial education of the German Industry and Commerce Association and committee member of the Association of German Employers' Associations . He was an early supporter of the NSDAP in Aachen. Mehler consciously hired National Socialists in his factory, including the later mayor Quirin Jansen and the later Reich inspector Rudolf Schmeer . In 1927, a large part of his workforce held leading positions in the then relatively insignificant NSDAP in Aachen.

Awards

literature

  • Mehler, Max. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 1218-1213.
  • Mehler, Max. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1452.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Kaemmerer, Bernhard Poll , Hans Siemons : Aachens history in data . Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 372.
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 14.
  3. ^ The NSDAP in Aachen at www.wolfgang-birkenstock.de
  4. ^ The NSDAP had a hard time in Aachen , in Aachener Nachrichten of January 26, 2013
  5. ↑ Cf. E. Gasten: Aachen in the time of National Socialist rule: 1933–1944 , Frankfurt am Main 1993 (cf. Diss. Cologne 1990, European University Writings Series 3, Vol. 541), p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Mehler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1952
Place of death Aachen