Victor Fredenhagen

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Victor Fredenhagen (born July 19, 1876 in Offenbach am Main , † October 11, 1934 in Munich ; full name: Victor Heinrich Richard Reinhard Fredenhagen ) was a German entrepreneur in the mechanical engineering industry.

Life

Victor Fredenhagen was born as the son of the Offenbach factory owner Wilhelm Fredenhagen . He studied engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Franconia and in Braunschweig of the Corps Rhenania .

After completing your studies with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. he joined the company founded by his grandfather in 1829, Fredenhagen GmbH & Co. KG in Offenbach, whose chief engineer and owner he became. With the relocation of the factory from Waldstrasse to Sprendlinger Landstrasse in Offenbach's Lauterborn district in 1904, further expansion could take place. In 1922 Fredenhagen sold the company to Joseph Kupczyk. In the 1920s, Maschinenfabrik Fredenhagen was one of the pioneers of conveyor technology in Germany, which gained crucial importance due to increasing automation in automobile construction.

literature

  • 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855–2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data of Victor Fredenhagen. Accessed February 28, 2019 (paid offer).
  2. ↑ The name Victor H. Fredenhagen is on the corner table of the five-league corner of the castle tavern of the Wachenburg .
  3. ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Uncertainty, fear of the future, financial worries . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from September 1, 2009 ( online version )
  4. ^ The introduction of assembly line work in Germany by 1933
personal data
SURNAME Fredenhagen, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fredenhagen, Victor Heinrich Richard Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur (Maschinenfabrik Fredenhagen)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1934
Place of death Munich