Xaver Mayer (Manager)

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Xaver Mayer (born April 20, 1881 in Gunzenhausen ; † July 11, 1942 in Bad Tölz ) was a German mechanical engineer, manager of the energy industry and local politician.

Life

Xaver Mayer attended the secondary school in Nuremberg . After graduating from high school, he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Munich . After graduating, he worked for Felten & Guilleaume Lohmeyer-Werke from 1904 to 1908 . In 1908 he switched to the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven as a manager . In 1911 he was given the position of construction manager at the newly founded Kraftwerk Stettin GmbH . The following year he became director and managing director of the company, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1922. In 1928 he became general director of Großkraftwerk Stettin AG .

Mayer was also managing director of the public works of the city of Stettin GmbH , board member of Stettiner Volksbad AG , chairman of the supervisory board of Stettiner Straßen-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Stettiner paper and cardboard factory , member of the supervisory board of Städtische Werke AG in Stettin, of Stettiner Elektrizitätswerke , of Stettiner Dampfer-Compagnie AG , Stettiner Hafengesellschaft GmbH , Stettiner Hafen-Elektrizitäts-Werk GmbH and other companies inside and outside Szczecin.

He was also chairman of the Association of Electricity Companies in Berlin from 1921 to 1924 . From September to December 1926 he negotiated in New York City with the banking house Harris, Forbis & Co. a loan for 3 million US dollars for the public works of the city of Szczecin . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Wirtschaftsverband der Elektrizitätswerke eGmbH in Berlin and a member of numerous technical and economic deputations.

Since 1916 he was a member of the city council of Szczecin.

Awards

Fonts

  • The Szczecin utilities and their economic importance , 1934
  • The supply companies of Germany in the mirror of the statistics with special consideration of their importance for Stettin , 1936

literature

  • Mayer, Xaver. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 1212-1213.
  • Mayer, Xaver. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1447.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Wärme: Zeitschrift für Dampf-Kessel und Maschinenbetrieb , 3rd year, episode 17/18, September 12, 1942, p. 99
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 283.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, manager of the energy industry and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1942
Place of death Bad Tölz