Sigmund Meyer (engineer)

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Sigmund Meyer (also: Sigismund Hans Meyer ; born September 11, 1873 in Hanover ; † February 27, 1935 in Bremen ) was a German engineer , an industrialist and politician in particular in the early electric car construction .

biography

family

Sigmund Meyer was the son of the Jewish businessman Sigmund Meyer (approx. 1840–1873) from Bochum and Helene Simon (1845–1919), sister of the Hanoverian banker Alexander Moritz Simon .

In 1901 he married Therese Eichel (1878–1938), the daughter of the Hanoverian businessman Heinrich Eduard Eichel and Therese Emilie Stoll . He had two daughters with Therese.

education and profession

Meyer graduated from the Hanover high school and then spent a year in the electrical engineering department of the Körting brothers . He then studied mechanical engineering and electronics at the Technical University in Hanover , then from 1893 at the ETH Zurich , where he also took his diploma .

Meyer then worked for three years at General Electric in Schenectady (in New York State , USA ). In 1902 he moved to Berlin to join Isidor Loewe's Union Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG), where he was employed as a senior engineer. From there, Meyer moved to Loewe's licensor , the British Thomson-Houston Comp. in English rugby (Warwickshire) , where he rose to chief engineer in 1904. Meyer saw the electric rail motors and controls built there as the drive means of the future.

Heinrich Wiegand , General Director of Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) in Bremen , saw electric rail engines in a similar way to Meyer : In 1905 he called Meyer to Bremen, where he took over the electrical engineering department of the NDL, from which in 1906 in Bremen-Hastedt the “Norddeutsche Automobil- und Motoren AG ”( NAMAG ) was founded with Meyer as head. In 1907, Sigmund Meyer along with Heinrich Boker & Co. in Remscheid , the Bremen tram and the National Bank of Germany , the North German wagon factory AG. In 1912 Meyer, also together with the National Bank, changed the “Bremer Wagen- u. Carkörper-Werke GmbH ”from Louis Gaertner to Louis Gaertner AG .

After NAMAG merged with the Vareler Hansa-Automobil Gesellschaft to form Hansa-Lloyd-Werke AG , based in Bremen , in 1914 , Meyer became a member of the Hansa-Lloyd Board of Management alongside Robert Allmers (1872–1951) and August Sporkhorst (1870–1940), where he was responsible also the electric cars continue. Various city ​​administrations showed great interest in the electrical pre-tensioning wagons designed by Meyer , for example for the previous horse busses or horse trams .

After the outbreak of the First World War, Sigmund Meyer initially served in the military as an officer for communications technology . But still during the war, in 1916, he spun off electric car manufacturing from Hansa-Lloyd and founded Lloyd Dynamowerke AG, which continued the commercial vehicle program . This was helped by the shortage of gasoline during the war and in the young Weimar Republic .

1919 Meyer founded in Hastedt , together with the National Automobile Company , Brennabor and Hansa-Lloyd , a cartel for the sale of cars and commercial vehicles, the Association of German car factories (GDA).

When the major shareholders Carl F. W. Borgward and Wilhelm Tecklenborg (1882–1948) came to the board of the Hansa-Lloyd-Werke in the course of the global economic crisis in 1929 , Sigmund Meyer was no longer represented on the board. The majority of the individual companies in the cartel had long been owned by other owner companies.

politics

In 1919 and 1920 Sigmund Meyer was a member of the German Democratic Party in the Bremen National Assembly . In 1920 he became a member of the Bremen citizenship and from 1920 to 1928 he was the first industrialist in the Senate . He was responsible for business and transport as well as for the Bremen gas and electricity works .

Honors

In 1925 the Technical University of Braunschweig awarded Sigmund Meyer an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing.Eh ).

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Meyer, (12) (see literature)
  2. ↑ cf. NDB article (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß: Meyer, Sigmund ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Sigmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Sigismund Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, industrialist and politician (DDP) in the Bremen Senate
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1935
Place of death Bremen