Philipp Müller (carriage manufacturer)

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Philipp Müller , also Fülöp Müller , (born November 21, 1760 in Bensheim , † February 6, 1841 in Krisztinaváros ) was a German carriage manufacturer in Hungary .

Life

Philipp Müller comes from Bensheim, where he learned the saddlery trade - presumably from his father Bernard Müller, a master saddler. He emigrated from Germany around 1780 and came to Buda. On October 31, 1791 he received the citizenship of the city. In 1785/1786 he founded a privileged wagon factory in Krisztinaváros , which he ran - pioneering and against the will of the guilds - as a heterogeneous manufacture (with master craftsmen in all areas of work necessary for the manufacture of carriages: carpentry, locksmithing, saddlery, paint shop, etc.). Müller introduced technical innovations that contributed to the safety of the vehicles; so z. B. the carriage brake invented by Machay. Both guaranteed the high quality of the carriages he produced. Since 1796 there has been a contractually agreed collaboration with a carriage factory in Pozsony (Bratislava). Müller's carriages had an excellent reputation all over Hungary and achieved very good sales. In 1838 Philipp Müller sold his factory to Michael Schnapp, a carriage manufacturer who immigrated to Buda from Fischamend .

Philipp Müller was married three times. The first child from the first marriage was Theresia. She became the mother of Ignaz Semmelweis , the "savior of mothers".

One of his sons-in-law, Jakob Kölber , did an apprenticeship with him and later founded his own carriage factory in (Buda) Pest, which also supplied the European nobility, among other things.

Philipp Müller was a member of the Buda City Council and (1820) acted as a judge (biro) in Krisztinavàros.

He died on February 6, 1841 in Krisztinaváros.

Services

Philipp Müller was a pioneer of carriage production in Hungary.

literature

Hermann Baum: Carriages and coach manufacturers in Pest, Buda and Budapest (1756–1928). On the history of the Felner, Müller and Kölber families, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-656-90447-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mérei Gyula Magyar iparfejlödés 1790-1848, Budapest 1951, 66th
  2. ^ Patriotic papers for the East. Kaiserstaat 1820, pp. 59–60.
  3. ↑ Mérei Gyula Magyar iparfejlödés 1790-1848, Budapest 1951, 66th
  4. ↑ Schams, Franz: Complete description of the royal Freyen main town of oven in Ungern, oven 1822, 545-546.
  5. ↑ Jordán Károly-Kocziánné Szentpéteri rzsebet: A Kölber-Kocsigyár története, in: A Magyar Müszaki és közlekedési Múzeum évkönyve 3, 1974/75, 213-236.
  6. ↑ Schmall, Lajos: Adalékok. Budapest székes fövaros törtenetéhez, 2nd vol., Budapest 1899, 273 and 318.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Fülöp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carriage manufacturer in Hungary
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1841
Place of death Krisztinaváros