Johann Sigmund Schuckert
Johann Sigmund Schuckert ( born October 18, 1846 in Nuremberg, † 17 September 1895 in Wiesbaden ) was an electrical engineer and founder of the company Schuckert & Co. ( Schuckertwerke ).
He was one of the pioneers of industrialization in Nuremberg.
Life / services
Sigmund Schuckert was born in 1846 the son of a Master Büttner. Already in elementary school he made in laboratory experiments acquaintance with the electricity. Sigmund refused to follow in the footsteps of his father, because he had the desire to become a master mechanic. With the help of his teacher, he managed to get an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Friedrich Heller, Nuremberg's oldest electrical company. By the way he dealt with his hobby-horse, the telegraph, and in-depth self-taught his knowledge of arithmetic, geometry, physics and chemistry.
As a journeyman Sigmund Schuckert opened the wandering that took him from Munich, Stuttgart, Hannover to Berlin and for Siemens & Halske. Everywhere he was anxious to meet the best professionals of the renowned companies in order to expand his knowledge and to be inspired in his own ideas. Significant was a multi-year stay in America for him. By emigrants, whom he met in Hamburg, the desire was in Sigmund Schuckert awake to go to the United States. While he headed the department of electrical equipment in the mechanical- optical shop of Albert Krage, Sigmund Schuckert learned English. In 1869 he started his journey. From New York he came through Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati to New Jersey, where he worked in the telegraph factory of Thomas Alva Edison. The rude tone in the factory and the inhumane working conditions soon drove him back to New York. In 1873 he returned to Germany.
1873 Sigmund Schuckert a rented workshop space in the Schwabenmühle in Nuremberg and dealt initially with the repair of American singer sewing machines, which otherwise hardly anyone had experience. The now constructed by Siemens dynamos inspired him and aroused his ambition. 1874 Schuckert excited with the construction of a dynamo by Siemens ' principle first sensation which she received the commercial privilege granted. From 1875 he was successful with his machines on the market and received a 1876 government subsidy of 50,000 marks from the Bavarian king, for he 1878 Linderhof Castle installed electric lighting. Machines made Schuckert were cheaper and more powerful than its competitors. The resulting success forced toward economies of scale.
In 1879, he was referring to the advice of the merchant Alexander Wacker, his later commercial director, a part of the Meßthalerschen Maschinenfabrik. Here arc lamps were produced in large numbers, their quality was great recognition at the Paris World Exhibition of 1889. Since the rented premises became too small soon, he built his own large factory in the castle fields road and thus became an entrepreneur in the true sense. He let the artisan traditions behind them, bought parts, and asking an employee. In 1885 he took Alexander Wacker on as a partner and hired engineers, sales professionals and other top professionals with whom he was able to expand its production further. Soon Schuckert & Co. had more than 280 staff and recorded annual sales of 1.53 million marks. In order to meet the large orders, more land has been cultivated in the country grave road from 1889. The invention of the headlight accelerated the rise. The headlights, a complete product of the Nuremberg industry, were exported around the world. In the Schuckert also complete electrical systems were built up to the tram.
Sigmund Schuckert had in 1892 because of a nervous suffering from the operation withdraw and died 1895 in Wiesbaden. His final resting place he found on the North Cemetery in Wiesbaden.
His 1893 transformed into a joint stock company by the name of EAEC (electricity corporation ) business was acquired in 1903 by Siemens & Halske and spun together with their power division in the Siemens - Schuckert GmbH; one produced at this time every year about 2,500 dynamos and a corresponding number of arc lamps, electric measuring, testing and control devices. In 1966 the merger of Siemens AG.
Works
Social Commitment
Sigmund Schuckert put a social security measures for workers and staff who went far beyond the statutory requirements and also the family members which included. He founded in 1883 a health insurance and pensions, paid Christmas bonuses and launched the ten-hour day. While in the industrial milieu generally prevailed strong social tensions, the corporate members of the company Schuckert called their masters trust "Father Schuckert ". He opened a retail store in order to allow staff discount shopping, private business schools and eventually created the " Sigmund Schuckert Foundation " to promote worthy and needy young students, with the Protestant confession.
The largest social monument he sat down at the foundation of the " residential community Sigmund Schuckert ". The architectural style became a model for the cooperative system in the workers' housing for the German Empire. Schuckert was also a member of the circle of patronage morning society.
Honors
In Nuremberg ( Eibach ), there is a named after Sigmund Schuckert school.