Otto Meyer (industrialist, 1882)
Otto Meyer (* 29. August 1882 in Regensburg , † 25. June 1969 in Augsburg ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and industrial managers .
Career
Meyer studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . In 1917 he became technical director of the Bavarian Rumpler works in Augsburg. In 1921 he moved to Fritz Neumayer AG and in 1925 he joined Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) as a board member . In 1942 he took over the navy ship engine plant in Hamburg's free port , which was badly damaged towards the end of the war and then dismantled . In 1945 he was imprisoned for a few months as a military economist . In 1946 he became general director of the entire group and initiated the rebuilding of the company after the end of the war.
From 1953 he was chairman of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and a member of the administrative board of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.
From 1959 to 1960 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .
Honors
- 1952: Honorary citizen of the city of Augsburg
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1954: Grashof commemorative coin of the Association of German Engineers
- 1955: Silver citizen medal of the city of Regensburg
- 1957: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1962: Honorary citizen of the city of Regensburg
- Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Munich
literature
- Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: Meyer, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 365-368 ( digitized version ).
- Sven Feyer: Otto Meyer. MAN board member in the Third Reich. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 62nd volume 2014, issue 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1969 |
| Place of death | augsburg |