Max Sielaff

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Family grave in St. Jacobi Kirchhof I in Berlin-Neukölln . Design: K. Spaeth

Max Sielaff (born June 16, 1860 , † October 10, 1929 in Berlin ; full name Max Gustav Heinrich Sielaff ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

His father Otto Sielaff was a mill builder in Wendisch Silkow in Pomerania .

Working as an engineer and patent attorney since 1884, Max Sielaff began manufacturing iron patent windows in Berlin. This resulted in a mechanical workshop for modeling and working through inventions, international patent exploitation and a factory for patented mass-produced articles (special iron patent windows, patent roller blinds , automatic beer and liquor taps, rubber-skin pantographs ) . After April 28, 1888 Patent no. 43055 for his self-employment sales organization had received, he specialized in the production of goods-vending machines, scales, dynamometers and other equipment. In 1906 he converted his company into a stock corporation , which he managed Sielaff Maschinenfabrik AG as sole member of the board in the mid-1920s.

In 1888/1889, together with Theodor Bergmann , he developed the first confectionery vending machines for Ludwig Stollwerck and shortly afterwards operated more than 10,000 machines in Germany. In 1894, Sielaff, Stollwerck and Bergmann founded the Deutsche Automatengesellschaft (DAG).

Max Sielaff married Johanna, the daughter of Karl Heinrich Eduard Laden, a chancellery in the Prussian War Ministry. He had seven children with her.

He did his military service in the Royal Prussian Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 in Berlin and resigned as a first lieutenant in the reserve. In the turmoil of the revolution after the First World War, he defended the Berlin Palace against the Bolsheviks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max and Johanna Sielaff at maxsielaff.de , last accessed on July 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Patent from June 9, 1887 at maxsielaff.de , last accessed on July 2, 2018
  3. ↑ The company history of Max Sielaff on maxsielaff.de , last accessed on July 2, 2018
  4. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume I, p. 703.
personal data
SURNAME Sielaff, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sielaff, Max Gustav Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1860
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1929
Place of death Berlin