Max Töwe

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Max Töwe (born August 10, 1871 in Parchim , † October 18, 1932 in Chemnitz ) was a German entrepreneur .

Max Töwe was the son of a high school teacher and grew up in Parchim. At the University of Rostock , he studied physics and was in 1896 with the dissertation "On the determination of Temperaturcoëfficienten after a Compensationsmethode" doctorate .

Together with Walter Thiem, he founded the company Töwe & Thiem in Halle (Saale) , which specialized in the manufacture of benoid gas devices for urban energy supply.

As early as the 1890s, Töwe was sent to the committee of the General Association of German Metal Industry (GDM) as a local representative . From the end of 1911, Töwe was the association's managing director with equal rights alongside Karl Grabenstedt as authorized negotiator . In the dispute with the German Metalworkers' Association , Töwe brokered peaceful agreements in several heavy labor disputes. His role in the wildcat strike of shipyard workers in 1913, when he was constantly in the struck shipyards, was particularly significant. In total, Töwe traveled more than 280 days for the GDM in 1913 in order to record the views of the district associations on reorganization. Benefiting from this, it was possible to reach binding agreements with employers and unions for around 500,000 employees in the metal and electrical industry. As a result, the scope of the labor disputes decreased considerably until 1914. Töwe died in Chemnitz in 1932 after an operation and a spa stay in Karlsbad.

Works

  • About the determination of the temperature coefficient using a compensation method . (Inaugural dissertation) Gerlach, 1896.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Employer , Volume 22, 1932 ( limited preview on Google Books )
  2. ↑ Information on Max Töwe in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Yearbook for Economic History, issues 1-2 . German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Institute for History. Economic History Department. Akademie-Verlag, 2002, p. 180
  4. ^ Achim Knips: German employers' associations of the iron and metal industry 1888–1914 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, p. 269.
  5. ^ Achim Knips: German employers' associations of the iron and metal industry 1888–1914 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, p. 243 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Töwe, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Parchim
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1932
Place of death Chemnitz