Max Neubert
Max Johannes Neubert (born August 11, 1863 in Sennfeld , Schweinfurt district , † October 17, 1948 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German entrepreneur and inventor based in Nuremberg .
Max Neubert was an inventor and entrepreneur who made outstanding contributions to the miniaturization and electrification of electrical toys.
Max Neubert's parents
His parents were Adam and Dorothea, who married on October 20, 1863 in Sennfeld. Adam Neubert was Catholic and was born on October 16, 1824 in Pfersdorf . He died on February 4, 1905. He was a royal bath attendant and owner of the mineral bath in Bad Sennfeld in Lower Franconia. He then lived and worked as a lifeguard in Bad Brückenau. Max Neubert's mother was born Dorothea Meusel on April 8, 1844 in Unfind near Bad Brückenau . Dorothea Neubert died on October 12, 1867 at the age of only 23. Due to the early death of their mother, Max and his sister Lucretia grew up as half-orphans. They both spent their childhood in Bad Sennfeld.
Max Neubert had a sister named Lucretia Margaretha Christine, who was born on September 29, 1865 in Sennfeld.
The father's bathing business
Adam Neubert acquired the Bad Sennfeld mineral bath on March 12, 1863 and operated it until it was sold to the private owner August Thiermann on April 1, 1869.
Bad Sennfeld could be reached by horse-drawn carriage in a half-hour drive from Schweinfurt . The sulphurous and iron-containing mud, which was obtained from a spring at the old Weiherleinsmühle, was used to treat chronic skin diseases, rheumatism and gout.
Adam Neubert advertised regularly in the Schweinfurter Tagblatt between 1863 and 1866 . Based on the newspaper advertisements in the Schweinfurter Tagblatt, it can be assumed that Ludwig Mohr was the bath tenant between May 10 and August 31, 1867. On September 11, 1868, an advertisement from his successor Christoph Brühschwein appeared for the first time. On August 14, 1869, tenant Eckhardt placed his first and only advertisement.
Max Neubert's family
Max Neubert's wife Margaretha (born June 26, 1863 - † January 16, 1936) was Catholic. Margaretha's parents were Michael and Margaretha Waid. Michael Waid was an economist and weaver by profession. His wife Margaretha, born Büttner, came from Stappenbach.
Max and Margaretha married on May 14, 1888 in Bamberg. They had five children, all of whom were baptized Catholics:
- Johann (called Hans), * December 2, 1888 in Bamberg, †?
- Dorothea (called Dora, married Martini), born December 28, 1890 in Bamberg, † 1966 in Wicker, Hesse
- Walburga (called Wally), * March 23, 1895 in Brückenau, †?
- Christine Veronika (called Lony, married Porschet), born May 26, 1897 in Brückenau, †?
- Lina (married Wehner), born February 1, 1899 in Nuremberg, †?
Until the sale on September 23, 1920 by the eldest son Hans Neubert, the family lived in a city villa at Eibacher Hauptstrasse 15 in the southwest of the city of Nuremberg. Today the Käferlein fashion house is located in the building.
The enterprise
Max Neubert was a professional title in 1888 mechanic's assistant and in 1920 installer to. In later years he was a master mechanic and manufacturer. Max Neubert was a pioneer in the miniaturization of electric children's toys. In 1903 Max Neubert founded his company, which he called "Max Neubert Factory of Electrical Toys" . The company was located at Schwabacher Strasse 50 in Nuremberg-W. These premises were rented. The company had around 80 employees at peak times.
Max Neubert's company worked closely with Trix . Max Neubert received utility model protection in 1931 (see below) for a metal construction kit that was subsequently also produced. In addition, Max Neubert registered numerous utility models between 1898 and 1934. The resulting products (e.g. electrical kits) were then subsequently produced and sold commercially. Metal stamping parts (e.g. for paint boxes) were one of the company's strengths.
For six years from 1928 to 1933 the company was represented with a stand at the Leipzig Spring and Autumn Fair. Only in autumn 1929 did the company not exhibit. Max Neubert had regularly booked stand (booth) 89 in the underground measuring house on the market, Leipzig, except in the first year when he exhibited at booth (booth) 204.
End of the company
Max Neubert himself deregistered the company on August 25, 1938 from the Nuremberg Trade Police Office, after moving from Nuremberg to Bad Kissingen to his youngest daughter Lina and her husband Franz Wehner a month earlier . From then on, Lina looked after her father until his death in 1948. Max Neubert's grave is still in the Bad Kissingen chapel cemetery today .
The most important products from Neubert
- Christmas tree decorations
- Electric children's irons etc. Children's stoves
- Electrifying apparatus
- Induction apparatus
- Dynamos
- High and low voltage electric motors
- Electric craft kits
- Motor kits (DRGM)
- Motor and dynamo kits (DRGM)
- Bakelite button (DRGM)
- Bakelite toggle switch
- Miniature bells
Utility models registered as a person by Max Neubert (by date of registration, serial number, place, title)
- 4th July 1898 - No. 97576 - Wildbad - "Clamping device for electric coals (?) And a piece of brass sheet punched ..."
- November 25, 1899 - No. 125975 - Schweinaustr. 34, Nuremberg - “Card typewriter, consisting of a disc divided into segments, equipped with letters and numbers, which is set in rotation by a lever, whereby the individual types are printed on the card below by pressing the lever head on a segment. "
- April 2, 1901 - No. 151128 (extended in 1904) - Hauptstr. 104, Nürnberg-Schweinau - "Candlesticks for Christmas tree candles of various thicknesses with a spring-loaded double ring, spiral outward from a piece of wire."
- June 4, 1901 - No. 154725 - Untere Hauptstr. 107, Nuremberg - "Clamp for galvanic purposes, the clamp of which is made of Façon wire."
- June 4, 1904 - No. 226373 (together with Harry Roth, Webersplatz 13, Nuremberg) - Langestr. 31, Fürth i / B. - "Case in the form of a clock, can be dismantled into a game, a pocket pharmacy, an opera glass, a magnifying mirror and a microscope"
- June 11, 1904 - No. 226894 (together with Harry Roth, Kornmarkt 8, Nuremberg) - Langestr. 31, Fürth i / B. - "Typewriter made of sheet metal with a hinged writing mechanism and rotatable type disc."
- March 30, 1908 - No. 335367 - Nuremberg, Marxstrasse 60 - "Toy - angel harp made of wood with wound strings, which are made to sound by several artificial glass icicles hanging on the rotating podium."
- 1931 - No. 1 220 612
- September 22, 1934 - No. 1313742 - Eibacher-Hauptstr. 15, Nuremberg - "low-voltage switch"
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: State Archives Würzburg. Land register extracts for Bad Sennfeld
- ↑ Source: Research in the archive of the Schweinfurter Tagblatt
- ↑ Source: Original documents, own research, information from the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Sennfeld, the archives of the city of Nuremberg and the Eibach land registry.
- ^ German toy address book. 3rd edition, Berlin 1935. P. 53 as well as Deutsche Spielwaren-Zeitung. Vol. 1–34, Nuremberg / Berlin / Bamberg 1909-43. August 1932, p. 56.
- ↑ Source: Information from the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig from January 10, 2007
- ↑ DRGM = German Empire utility model
- ↑ Source: Original price list from around 1930
- ↑ Source: Original documents and excerpts from the utility model roll of the former Reich Patent Office continued by the German Patent and Trademark Office
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neubert, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neubert, Max Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sennfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1948 |
| Place of death | Bad Kissingen |