Carl Berg (airship builder)

Carlsberg ( born February 4, 1851 in Lüdenscheid, † May 26, 1906 in Bonn) was a German entrepreneur and airship builder.

Berg came from a commercial iron family. His great-grandfather founded in 1786 in Lüdenscheid a button-maker 's workshop. In the following generations, the business was expanded into a major metalworking companies. Among other things, a brass movement and a hammer mill in Eveking came (today Werdohl ) added.

Carlsberg took over 20 years after the death of his father, the company and took the Early Years for further expansion. He sat up early the chances of the electrical industry and gave the post the first double bronze wire for telegraph and telephone. There were also additional items of non-ferrous metals.

Berg founded as a subsidiary company, the copper works in Berlin Germany and Austria in Aussig (Bohemia ). Above all, he knew the chances of aluminum as a lightweight construction material. His company in Lüdenscheid became a pioneering companies in the aluminum industry.

In 1892, Berg gave the airship engineer David Schwarz, the material for the planned first dirigible airship in the world. The company Berg also led by the construction of the skeleton and its parts. After the death of Schwarzenberg worked in the same way for Count Zeppelin. On the factory premises in Lüdenscheid ZI was assembled and shipped from there to Friedrichshafen. Even for Z II and Z- III yielded mountain the material free of charge. The engineer Fritz Burr was briefly employed as a manager in Eveking and then founded the aluminum works Wutoeschingen.

After the death of mountain of the aircraft became the purchaser of the company Berg.