Siegfried Meurer (entrepreneur)
Siegfried Gottlob Meurer (born September 7, 1840 in Waldenburg ; † May 4, 1926 in Dresden ) was a German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and mountaineer.
Live and act
Meurer studied mechanical engineering at the Chemnitz trade school. After working for a few years in Richard Hartmann's machine factory , he founded a brass foundry in Pirna in 1871 . Two years later he founded the G. Meurer company with his brother Coelstin Meurer . The entrepreneur produced iron goods, art castings and a liquor cooker that had been developed by Siegfried Meurer. With the increase in gas consumption at the beginning of the 20th century, Meurer quickly recognized the growing industry and has been producing gas stoves ever since.
Due to the high demand for these new products and the necessary expansion, the company was relocated to Cossebaude near Dresden in 1903 . After the Meurer brothers founded branches in Tetschen in 1907 and in Königsbrück in the same year, as well as several assembly workshops in Budapest and Barcelona , the family company was converted into a stock company , Eisenwerke G. Meurer AG . After Siegfried Meurer left, his son Johann Conrad Meurer took over the management of the company.
After his retirement, Siegfried Meurer dedicated himself to mountaineering. He joined the Dresden section of the German-Austrian Alpine Club and recruited younger members. His two sons also joined the climbing club and took part in numerous first ascents, for example the first ascent of the Meurerturm in the Schrammsteinen, named after them . Siegfried Meurer preferred the Pala group in the Dolomites , where he also made two first ascents. Through his notes on his climbing trips, he helped to create a map and he campaigned for the construction and use of a support hut for the section. He had a second built himself and later sold it to his section.
Awards
- Great decoration of the mountaineering section Dresden
- Saxon Commerce Councilor
literature
- Andreas Kieselbach: Meurer, Gottlob Siegfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 267 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Pankotsch: Meurer, Gottlob Siegfried . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meurer, Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meurer, Siegfried Gottlob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1926 |
| Place of death | Dresden |