Moritz Tigler

Moritz Tigler (born March 9, 1814 in Krefeld , † June 17, 1875 in Meiderich near Duisburg ) was a German entrepreneur and important industrialist in the western Ruhr area , who played a key role in shaping the development of the Ruhr area in the early days .

Life

Moritz Tigler comes from a family of manufacturers and wholesale merchants in Krefeld. He received his commercial training a. a. in Wilhelm Grillo's iron and cloth shop in Essen. At the beginning of 1844 he went to Ruhrort as a representative of this company . On October 15, 1844, he married Lisette Henriette Grillo, the daughter of his employer in Essen. The forging workshop founded by Moritz Tiger in 1845, one of the nucleus of what later became Demag , was one of the first companies in the capital goods industry. The main products of the Tigler iron foundry and machine factory were pulley blocks, cranes, as well as machines for shipbuilding and iron and steel works.

His brother-in-law Friedrich Grillo was trained by Moritz Tigler in the company. Together with his brothers-in-law Wilhelm Theodor Grillo , Friedrich Grillo and Johann Daniel Morian , Moritz Tigler founded the "Actien-Etablissement Styrum for the iron industry", which in 1857 already employed more than 500 workers.

Moritz Tigler died on June 17, 1875 of the consequences of pneumonia. He was buried in Meiderich. A street in Duisburg-Meiderich has been named after him since 1939. The Düsseldorf industrialist Hermann Tigler (1881–1960) is his grandson.

literature

• Wolfgang Burkhard: Lower Rhine entrepreneur. 111 personalities and their work. Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 1990, ISBN 3-87463-162-1 , p. 124 f.
• List of ancestors and descendants of Tigler based on Hermann Tigler (1881-1960). Lineage of the Tigler family from the Lower Rhine. Duisburg 1954–1955.
• Family archive lawyer Gero v. Pelchrzim, Frankfurt a. M.