Otto Meyer (industrialist, 1865)

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Otto Meyer (born September 19, 1865 in Beverstedt ; † 1939 ) was a German civil engineer and manager in the construction industry .

Life

Otto Meyer attended the Domgymnasium in Verden (Aller) . After graduating from high school, he studied eight semesters at the Technical University of Hanover and became a member of the Corps Ostfalia . In 1891 he became an employee of the City Planning Department in Strasbourg . In 1893 he joined the construction company Freytag & Heidschuh , which later traded under Wayss & Freytag . Meyer was a member of the board of directors since converting to a stock corporation in 1900 and has been the company's general manager since 1912 .

Meyer was chairman of the Reichsverband industrial construction companies , board member of the German concrete association , member of the German committee for reinforced concrete , member of the state committee for Baden and the Palatinate of the Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft and board member of the Palatinate industrial association . He was a member of the supervisory boards of C. Baresel AG , Rheinische Creditbank and Hollandschen Credietbank AG . His first marriage was to Emilie Freytag, a daughter of the contractor Conrad Freytag . After her death he married Emma Stoffers. He had a son from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage.

Awards

literature

  • Meyer, Otto. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1244.
  • Meyer, Otto. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , column 1495-1496.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and manager in the construction industry
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverstedt
DATE OF DEATH 1939