Ernst Schiess
Ernst Schiess (born September 14, 1840 in Magdeburg , † September 9, 1915 in Erkrath ; alternative spelling Ernst Schiess ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur . For many years he was a Düsseldorf city councilor , chairman of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and founder of the Association of German Machine Tool Builders (VDW) .
Life
Ernst Schiess came from a Magdeburg banking family. He attended a humanistic high school in his hometown, which he left after secondary school . He then studied for a year at the Hanover Polytechnic . Here he joined the Corps Saxonia . Practical training in Manchester showed him the importance of machine tools for industrial development. In Schiess the decision to found a machine tool factory matured. The Düsseldorf industrialist Albert Poensgen recognized the potential of the young engineer. Poensgen convinced him that the city on the Rhine was the right location for the implementation of his plans and helped him to turn a small workshop into a machine tool factory. In 1866 production started in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk , from which the world's most important company of its kind was to develop. Three years later, in 1869, he married Anna (1846–1941), née Bodenstein, and started a family. The daughter Franziska (1869–1911) married Wilhelm Pfeiffer jun. (1861–1934), since 1885 co-owner of the CG Trinkaus banking house and director of the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange . The second daughter Elisabeth (1872–1954) married in 1892 August von Waldthausen (1862–1952), councilor of commerce in Düsseldorf and on the supervisory board of Deutsche Maschinenfabrik AG, Duisburg .
From November 23, 1888 until his death, Schiess was a member of the Düsseldorf city council as chairman of the Liberal parliamentary group. He took care of commercial and transport matters, but in particular of the commercial school system. In 1891 Ernst Schiess was awarded the title of Kommerzienrat . In the same year he initiated the establishment of the Association of German Machine Tool Manufacturers with ten other machine tool manufacturers. From 1890 to 1894 the entrepreneur was Vice President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce, and since 1897 its chairman. Together with Heinrich Lueg , he organized the Düsseldorf industrial and commercial exhibition in 1902. Tax statistics from 1910 classify Ernst Schiess' fortune at 13-14 million marks .
Ernst Schiess died on September 9, 1915 shortly before his 75th birthday at his country estate in Erkrath near Düsseldorf. The entrepreneur was buried in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery.
The enterprise
During the founder's lifetime
The company, founded in 1866, did not initially manufacture its own machines. Repair work was carried out and individual machine components were manufactured. It was not until 1870 that Schiess supplied machine tools from its own production, and since 1872 also abroad. At the end of 1873, the young company was already employing around 100 people, despite the difficult economic environment. In 1880, after the start-up crisis had been overcome, the large trade and art exhibition took place in Düsseldorf . With 190 employees, the Schiess company was now one of the three largest machine tool factories in the German Reich. During this exhibition, the entrepreneur Ernst Schiess was awarded the Silver State Medal, the highest distinction that a machine tool manufacturer could have received. The jurors were impressed by the variety and quality of Schiess products. In the 1880s, the company finally succeeded in overtaking its biggest competitor, the Dortmund company Wagner & Co. In 1906 Schiess converted his company into a stock corporation . The share capital was 4.7 million marks. Co-founders were his sons-in-law, the bankers August von Waldthausen and Wilhelm Pfeiffer (1861–1934). In 1915 Schiess AG had 1023 employees. The company was classified as essential to the war effort and earned well in and on the First World War. The company was an important supplier for the German shipyards.
After the founder's death
In 1925 Schiess AG merged with Defries-Werken to form Schiess-Defries AG, and from 1939 the company was again operating under the old name. Under the National Socialist rule, the company was again involved in the production of goods that were important for the war effort. All five plants were dismantled between 1945 and 1948. In the 1950s, production was resumed in the Lörick district of Düsseldorf . In 1993 the company was taken over by Bremer Vulkan , and in 1996 Bremer Vulkan filed for bankruptcy. Schiess merged with the Aschersleben machine tool factory (WEMA) located in Aschersleben , and the Düsseldorf production location was subsequently given up. The company's name was later changed to Schiess GmbH. In 2004, Schiess GmbH was taken over by the Chinese machine manufacturer Shenyang Machine Tool Group after financial difficulties.
The approximately 250 employees of Schiess GmbH develop and install the machines, which are produced exclusively in Aschersleben. The Schiess product range includes horizontal bench and panel drilling machines as well as large vertical machining centers for combined turning , milling and drilling . Smaller five-axis portal milling machines and multi-axis vertical lathes are offered under the Aschersleben brand . In addition, maintenance, repairs and general overhauls of third-party products are carried out in customer service.
Honors
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In 1930 the city of Düsseldorf named a street in the Derendorf district after Ernst Schiess. However, this street was renamed on January 31, 1966. At the same time, Löricker Strasse in the Lörick district, where the Group's headquarters was located, was renamed Schiessstrasse in its southern course in the Heerdt district.
In Aschersleben, the company has its headquarters at Ernst-Schiess-Straße 1.
The German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven owns a bronze sculpture by Ernst Schiess.
literature
- Stephan Pfisterer: Mechanical engineering in the Ruhr area. Wagner & Co. 1865-1913. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08812-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 years of Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention. Bochum 1963, p. 143.
- ↑ Reter Hüttenberger: The development to the big city up to the turn of the century (1856-1900). In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2. Schwann / Patmos, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , p. 554.
- ↑ Silke Wilms, Clemens von Looz-Corswarem (arr.): Düsseldorfer City Council 1878-1933. Düsseldorf 1992/1993. (Finding aid from the City Archives of the State Capital Düsseldorf; online as PDF document, 199 kB)
- ↑ Reter Hüttenberger: From the late 19th century to the end of the First World War. In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 3. Schwann / Patmos, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34221-X , p. 194 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shoot, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shoot, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1915 |
| Place of death | Erkrath |