Joseph Anton von Maffei

Joseph Anton Ritter von Maffei ( born September 4, 1790 in Munich, † September 1, 1870 ) was an industrialist. Besides Joseph von Baader (1763-1835) and Baron Theodor Cramer -Klett (1817-1884) is considered as one of the three Maffei most important pioneers of the railway in Bavaria.

Life

Joseph Anton Maffei was the son of an Italian merchant gender from Verona. The Palazzo Maffei still stands at the Piazza delle Erbe today. His father came to Munich to operate a tobacco wholesaler to Joseph Anton Maffei led further and later pledged to set up a locomotive factory.

Joseph Anton Ritter von Maffei died on 1 September 1870; his grave can still be found today in the Old South Cemetery in Munich. His legacy went to his nephew Hugo Ritter and Edler von Maffei. The Villa Maffei in Feldafing ( Lake Starnberg ) is now a museum and exhibitions.

Services

1835 was one of the founding shareholders of Maffei Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank.

1838 bought Maffei in Munich's English Garden Hirschau on a plot of land and established there the " iron Hirschau ". His concern was to make Bavaria competitive in the field of machinery industry. From small beginnings, a locomotive factory was established with an international reputation. The following year, work began on the construction of locomotives and in 1841 delivered the first steam locomotive named The Munich at the Royal Bavarian State Railways for 24,000 guilders.

Maffei sat down, inter alia, for the construction of the railway line Munich - Augsburg and supported Johann Ulrich Himbsel the construction of the private railway Munich - Starnberg.

1851 delivered Maffei for shipping on Lake Starnberg the first steamer Maximilian. By 1926 there were 44 steamboats.

1864, the 500th locomotive was delivered. Already at that time, Maffei worried about its workforce, founded a charity fund and provided for dedicated age pensions.

Maffei was Magistrate in Munich and became famous for, inter alia, the construction of the famous Hotel Bayerischer Hof.

Well-known products of the locomotive factory, the express train locomotives S 2/6 ( high-speed record in 1907: 154 km / h ) and S 3/ 6, which can still be admired in the tourist center of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and in the Nuremberg Transport Museum today.

With the Schwartzkopff works in Berlin 1907, the Maffei Schwartzkopff works were created as a joint effort in which electric locomotives from 1910 and from 1924 also diesel locomotives were built. More electric locomotives were manufactured from 1925 together with Siemens and AEG.

The company J. A. Maffei went bankrupt in 1930 and merged in 1931 with the company Krauss & Co. in Allach to Krauss -Maffei. The Maffei Schwartzkopff -Werke GmbH went there in 1932 in liquidation. The plants in the Hirschau been recovered by the creditors and demolished in 1935. Only the water power plant remained.

Gallery

Superheated steam train locomotive with four-cylinder compound engine (G 5/5)

Freight locomotive for the Anatolian Railway (Asia Minor)

Freight tank locomotive for the Imperial Japanese National Railways

Locomotive for the railway Damas - Hama

Passenger Locomotive for the Brazilian Central Railway