Wolfgang Andreas Reuter

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Wolfgang Andreas Reuter (born June 24, 1866 in Helsinki , † February 5, 1947 in Bodenwerder ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

As the son of court counselor and geometer Conrad Reuter from Aabenraa , who co-founded the Helsinki Polytechnic and was a professor there, he spent his childhood in Helsinki, where he attended the normal high school and then graduated from the Polytechnic with a degree in engineering . In 1880 he went to Weather to focus on the recommendation of his uncle, the mechanical engineer Theodor Reuter , in the mechanical workshops Harkort & Co. of Ludwig Stuckenholz develop. In 1896 he became a partner in Rudolf Bredt and finally took over the company in 1899. Under Reuter's direction, the company specialized in hoist construction and oriented itself towards the then expanding metallurgical industry . Through his marriage to Martha, the daughter of Julius Blanks , he acquired shares in the Märkische Maschinenbauanstalt , which he merged with his existing company in 1906 to form the Märkische Maschinenbauanstalt Ludwig Stuckenholz AG . The merger with his main competitor, Duisburger Maschinenbau AG and Benrather Maschinenfabrik , took place in 1909 initially as a community of interests and in 1910 in the Deutsche Maschinenfabrik AG, which he managed, as General Director of the company later trading as Deutsche Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft (DEMAG) , he expanded the company into one the most important supplier of industry, trade and transport until he handed over the company management to his son Hans in 1940 .

From 1923 to 1934 Reuter was President of the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions . Until 1945 he was also a member of numerous professional associations and several supervisory boards, including Salzdetfurth AG and Deutsche Bank AG . After the end of the war, he was suspended from his mandate as a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank AG because of his Nazi past. Among other things, he had taken part in the secret meeting of February 20, 1933 on election campaign financing for the NSDAP .

Honors

In 1919 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen as Dr.-Ing. Eh that same year he became Finnish Vice Consul and in 1938 an honorary citizen of the city of Wetter . He was holder of the Finnish Order of the White Rose and the Turkish Mecidiye Order . In 1954 the company's own space in front of the DEMAG administration building in Duisburg was renamed Wolfgang-Reuter-Platz after approval by the city council . There is a Wolfgang-Reuter-Straße in Wetter .

literature

  • Conrad Matschoss : A Century of German Mechanical Engineering. From the mechanical workshop to the German machine factory (1819-1919). Springer, Berlin 1922.
  • Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk : The great time of fire. The way of the German industry. Wunderlich, 1959.
  • Fritz Toussaint: Wolfgang Reuter (1866-1947). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien, Volume 7. Aschendorff, Münster 1960, pp. 105–124.
  • Horst A. Wessel : Continuity in Transition: 100 Years of Mannesmann 1890–1990 . Mannesmann AG, Düsseldorf 1990
  • ders .:  Reuter, Wolfgang Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 464 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Gall : The German Bank, 1870-1995. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7 , p. 433f.
  2. ↑ Weather continues to struggle with city honors , article from November 30, 2013 by Steffen Gerber on DerWesten.de
  3. ↑ Duisburg street names alphabetically. directory
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Wolfgang Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1947
Place of death Bodenwerder