Oskar Ludwig Kummer
Oskar Ludwig Kummer (born August 23, 1848 in Dresden , † April 4, 1912 in Klotzsche ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .
Life and accomplishments
Oskar Ludwig Kummer, son of the painter Carl Robert Kummer , worked as a Prussian marine engineer. After retiring from service in 1888, he opened an electrotechnical factory under the company Oskar Ludwig Kummer & Co. in Niedersedlitz , then a small village on the railway line from Dresden to Bohemia . Soon - for the first time in Europe in series and on an industrial scale - electric motors were manufactured there. With this, Kummer created the prerequisites for the industrial use of electrical energy on a large scale and for the displacement of the previous drive concepts based on steam power and transmission drives. His company traded as Actien-Gesellschaft Elektricitätswerke (formerly OL Kummer & Co.) from 1894 and soon became the largest company in Saxony with around 2000 employees with branches throughout the German Empire . In 1898 he was awarded the title of Royal Prussian Commerce Council.
He has developed his own drive switches and drive motors for tram rail cars, and special chassis with several elliptical leaf springs are also from him.
In 1901 his entrepreneurial luck ran out after he had worked on a series of projects, such as the power station in Niederlößnitz or the Ammergaubahn , which later became Germany's first single-phase alternating current railway, or the Dresden suburban railway , which he had built to transport his workers and which was later named after him. His company went bankrupt before the projects could be completed.
In 1903 the Sachsenwerk , which still exists today, was founded on the site of the Kummer-Werke .
Oskar Ludwig Kummer was one of the first to recognize the importance of electrification for industry and railway construction. He gave important impulses for the industrial development of the greater Dresden area and all of Saxony. Kummer is an honorary citizen of Murnau am Staffelsee .
family
Oskar Ludwig Kummer had married Franziska Auguste Sophie Imhof (* around 1854 in Rome; † March 16, 1944 in Dresden), called Fanny, daughter of the sculptor Heinrich Max Imhof in 1875 . The son Max Heinrich Robert, born in 1876, died before he was three years old. Kummer died in Klotzsche in 1912 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery; the Kummer family grave was leveled in 1969.
literature
- Harald Müller: 160 years of Oskar Ludwig Kummer. Portrait of an outstanding Dresden entrepreneur. TUDpress Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940046-88-8 .
- Peter Blath: Rail traffic in Werdenfelser Land. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-886-7 (One chapter is dedicated to OL Kummer and his Murnau − Oberammergau railway).
Web links
- Harald Müller: The forgotten entrepreneur , on saechsische.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brief company history of Sachsenwerk Licht und Kraft AG on the website of the Main State Archives Dresden , accessed on March 1, 2017.
- ↑ Award. In: Teplitz-Schönauer Anzeiger , February 19, 1898, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Marion Hruschka (editor): Markt Murnau am Staffelsee. Contributions to history. Volume 1. Ed .: Markt Murnau am Staffelsee. Murnau am Staffelsee 2002, p. 512.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sorrow, Oskar Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1912 |
| Place of death | Klotzsche |