Siegfried Guggenheimer

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Siegfried Guggenheimer (born November 22, 1875 in Nuremberg , † December 8, 1938 in Florence ) was a German physicist and industrialist .

Life

He was the son of the businessman Heinrich Guggenheimer and Mathilde Löwenthal . After high school, he first attended the industrial school in Nuremberg . He then studied at the Universities of Munich , Berlin and Geneva , at the University of Paris and the University of Cambridge . In 1898 received his doctorate he in Geneva with the work Contributions Experimentales à l'étude Rayon X Dr. phil. He then went to the University of Frankfurt (Main) as an assistant to embark on an academic career.

Then, however, on August 20, 1906, he registered a company for the manufacture and sale of electrical measuring devices under his name in the Nuremberg commercial register. At first he produced at Deichslerstrasse 19, but then in 1912 the company moved to Schoppershofstrasse 52, and in 1917 the neighboring house No. 54 was added. In the first few years, the company gained a high reputation in Germany and beyond thanks to numerous innovations in a wide variety of areas of measurement technology .

Guggenheimer married Marguerite (Margrit) Bloch on October 30, 1919 (born February 3, 1894 in Basel ). The couple had a daughter Susanne and a son Heinrich (* 1924).

During the inflation period of 1921, Guggenheimer converted his sole proprietorship into a stock corporation . However, the hyperinflation of 1923 forced the Guggenheimer company to undertake further restructuring, so that he left the company himself in 1925. But he separated part of the company and ran it from 1925 as the new, independent Noris Tachometerwerk Dr. Siegfried Guggenheimer continues.

The entrepreneur was very committed to the common good of his hometown. He was one of the sponsors of the Nuremberg Commercial College , which was founded after the First World War , and was a member of the board of directors from 1920 to 1926 and also a lecturer . On July 20, 1921, he belonged to Mayor Hermann Luppe and the SPD - Member of Parliament Max Süßheim of the founders of the association Friends of the Graduate School of Nuremberg .

Until the 1930s Guggenheimer was chairman of the Association of Electrotechnical Special Factories in Berlin . In addition, like many politically active Jews of his time, he was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Bavaria and until 1928 its chairman in the Bavarian State Economic Committee. In addition, he was a member of the board of the Reich Economic Committee of the DDP. With three other Nuremberg Jews he belonged to the leadership group of this party.

In 1933 the Dr. Siegfried Guggenheimer AG put down their name under pressure from the National Socialists and has since operated under the name Metrawatt AG . In 1937 Guggenheimer was forced to give up the management of his own company, the Noris Tachometerwerk . The family then left Germany. Guggenheimer first went to London on December 8, 1937 , but later followed his wife and daughter to Florence. There he died exactly one year to the day after his emigration . His widow Marguerite later returned to her native Basel.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria: German Democratic Party in Bavaria (DDP) 1918-1930
  2. ^ Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 58, Issue 3, Verlag Beck, 1995, Page 1048 (Google Books)
  3. ↑ Dr. Ernst Schmidmer and Dipl.-Vw. Hans Jauch.
  4. ↑ son Henry was Freiburg in Switzerland emigrated, where he worked in Zurich studied; later he emigrated to the USA . - See: Heinrich Guggenheimer (English) .
personal data
SURNAME Guggenheimer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1938
Place of death Florence , Italy