Theodor Ehrhardt

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Theodor Ehrhardt (born September 13, 1875 in Zweibrücken , † July 22, 1952 in Saarbrücken ) was a German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Theodor Ehrhardt was born as the son of the Saarbrücken entrepreneur Ludwig Erhardt. After attending elementary school , grammar school and high school as well as the technical school for mechanical engineering in Aachen, he studied engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Munich . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Franconia . After completing his studies, he first worked for a year in his father's company, Erhardt & Sehmer, and for a year at Germania shipyard in Kiel as an engineer. In 1898 he finally joined his father's machine factory in Saarbrücken, where he was a technical board member from 1906 and, together with Rudolf Drawe, started the series production of large gas engines. From 1927 until the liquidation in 1928 he was chairman of the company, which was then continued as a mechanical engineering company, formerly Ehrhardt & Sehmer . He then worked independently as a civil engineer and consulting engineer in Saarbrücken.

Ehrhardt was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Saar-Metallwerk in Saarbrücken, member of the board of the association for the protection of the economic interests of the Saar area and deputy board member of the branch of the association of German ironworkers , Eisenhütte Süd-West . He was married to Anna geb. Henrich. They had three sons.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stahl und Eisen , 72nd year 1952, No. 18, p. 1124.
  2. ^ Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839–1929 , No. 389
personal data
SURNAME Ehrhardt, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1952
Place of death Saarbrücken