Peter Wegmann (entrepreneur)

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Wegmann nameplate (1909)

Peter Wegmann (born March 16, 1843 in Cologne ; † May 29, 1912 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German councilor and co-founder of the Wegmann, Harkort & Co. company in Kassel . Today this company is integrated into the arms company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW).

Life

On behalf of two investors, Wegmann bought the disused car factory from Sethe & Krippen in Rothenditmold near Kassel in 1882 . On November 2nd of the same year he founded the Casseler Waggonfabrik von Wegmann, Harkort & Co. together with Richard Harkort, a descendant of the Harkort family of industrialists , and another investor . This company already employed 210 people in its first year of existence ( mainly taken over from the predecessor company Wagenfabrik von Sethe & Krippen). In 1882, the company built 273 freight and coal railroad cars as well as 15 railroad cars for passenger transport. In 1886 Wegmann was, after the departure of co-shareholder Richard Harkort, sole owner of the company and is now called this in Wegmann & Co. to. In 1888, Wegmann founded the Wegmann & Co. company health insurance fund , today's BKK Herkules, as a company-related company health insurance fund . After Wegmann's death, the company was sold to the engineer August Bode and the businessman Conrad Köhler.

Honors

In the Jungfernkopf district of Kassel, Wegmannstrasse was named after Peter Wegmann.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kassel.de/stadt/geschichte/chronik/info/09469/index.html
  2. ↑ Thomas Vollmer, Ralf Kulla: Panzer from Kassel. The armaments production of the companies Henschel and Wegmann . Prolog-Verlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-88122-996-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Wegmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, councilor and co-founder of Wegmann, Harkort & Co
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1912
Place of death Bad Kissingen