Max Meier

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Max Meier (with bowler hat) and employees in front of the office of the steel mill in Differdange

Max Meier (born October 2, 1863 in Reschitza , Austrian Empire , † March 4, 1919 in Bismarckhütte ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Avenue Max Meier in Differdange
Bismarckhütte Ironworks (1908)

Meier grew up as the son of the inventor Eduard Meier in Reschitza, where his father was manager of an ironworks until 1880; his brother was the art historian Julius Meier-Graefe . Max Meier studied metallurgy in Leoben , Breslau and Berlin . During his studies in Breslau in 1883 he became a member of the Corps Silesia there . Meier began his professional activity at Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations in Ruhrort. From there he moved in 1893 into the iron shopkeeper in St. Ingbert (Saar) over and took there a Thomas steel plant and a three-stand trio rolling mill in operation. At the end of 1895, he moved to the Société Anonyme des Aciéries de Micheville in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department as technical manager for the construction of a steel mill and several rolling mills . In 1898 he went to Differdingen on behalf of the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG and built a new steel mill there. Under his direction, a gray beam was rolled there for the first time in Europe in 1901 . In 1908 he became general director and technical head of the Bismarckhütte iron rolling mill in Bismarckhütte .

Awards

For his achievements, Meier was awarded the Carl Lueg Memorial Medal by the Association of German Ironworkers in 1908 and the title of honorary doctor ( Dr. ing. Hc ) from the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1913 . In 1904 a street in Differdange was named Rue Max Meier after him.

Works

  • The manufacture of semi-finished products, rails, sleepers and beams . In: Stahl und Eisen - Zeitschrift für das Deutsche Eisenhüttenwesen, 1898, p. 1017

literature

  • Max Meier . In: Alfons Perlick : Upper Silesian Miners and Huts People: Pictures of Life from the Upper Silesian Industrial District (= sources and representations of Silesian history, vol. 6), 1953, pp. 189–190
  • Max Meier . In: Stahl und Eisen - Zeitschrift für das Deutsche Eisenhüttenwesen, Volume 108, 1988, p. 922
  • Fritz Maywald: Complete directory of members of the Corps Silesia 1821–1961 , Part I, Cologne 1961, serial no. 514.
  • Kösener corps lists 1960, 83 , 513.
  • Meier, Max . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 7, p. 31.
  • Günter Bauhoff:  Meier, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 645 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stahl und Eisen: Zeitschrift für das Deutsche Eisenhüttenwesen, Volume 72, 1952
  2. ^ Deutsche Chemiker-Zeitung, 1908, p. 209.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Bau-Zeitung, Volume 47, 1913, p. 499.
  4. ↑ The name was changed in 1936 to the name Rue Émile Mark (after a regional politician), which is still valid today .

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personal data
SURNAME Meier, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Reschitza
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1919
Place of death Bismarckhütte