Georg Sigl

Georg Sigl (born 13 January 1811 in Breitenfort (Lower Austria ); † May 9, 1887 in Vienna Waehring ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur.

Life

Georg Sigl learned the locksmith craft and came to his journey through Germany and Austria to Berlin, where he established a small workshop in 1840 and 1844 a small engineering works for the construction of book printing presses.

When he founded in 1846 his factory in Vienna, he still maintained his Berlin factory. The company moved to Vienna in 1851 in the Währingerstraße; there also steam locomotives were manufactured from 1857. The early 1870s, the first two compaction -free two-stroke engines were built according to the plans of the mechanic and automobile pioneer Siegfried Marcus ( not to be confused with the two four-stroke engines from 1887 and 1888, stationary engines and engine of the Second Marcus cars, both at the Technical Museum Vienna). In addition, we introduced machine tools, paper machines, steam engines, agricultural equipment and steam boilers ago.

In 1861, Sigl leased the transferred previously in the possession of the Austrian Credit-Anstalt in Günthersche locomotive factory in Wiener Neustadt; 1867 was this factory on his property.

He participated in numerous other companies, so he fabricated oil presses, marine engines, water amusement machines, Arsenal facilities and support structures (including, but the roof of the Votive Church in Vienna).

1872 sailed the " Sigl - road locomotive" with great attention to the contemporary press tentatively as a towing vehicle, the streets of Vienna.

As a result of the stock market crash of 1873 had Sigl all his company, with the exception of the Vienna factory, in which only the general engineering was applied, leave. Among them was the Wiener Neustadt locomotive factory that has been converted into a public company.

He died in 1887.

Appreciation

On February 11, 1870, Sigl honorary citizen of Vienna.

In 1888 (9th district ), the Georg Sigl alley named after him in Vienna Alsergrund.

In the year 2011 established the Austrian Postal occasion of the 200th birthday of a special stamp.

The former machine factory Sigl in the Vienna Währinger Straße today. It now houses the socio-cultural center WUK