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Henry Harnischfeger (* July 10, 1855 in Salmuenster, County Schluchtern, Hesse -Nassau as Henry Harnischfeger, † November 15, 1930 ) was an American businessman of German origin.

Life

Harnischfeger was born the son of a tanner, Konstantin Harnischfeger and his wife Christina in the Hessian Salmuenster. After his apprenticeship as a fitter, he wandered on March 23, 1872 to the United States, where he arrived at Castle Gardens, New Jersey on April 9, 1872. Upon his arrival, he lived and worked first with his cousin Michael, a bakery owner.

Harnischfeger soon found a place in the work of the sewing machine manufacturer Singer, but was released in the same year due to a corporate crisis. After he had worked for six months as a locksmith in another local company, he moved to Providence, Rhode Iceland, where he first worked for the Rhode Iceland Locomotive Works and later for Brown & Sharpe. During another economic crisis, he lost his job again and went for a short time to New York. As a singer in 1874 a new factory in Elizabeth, New Jersey opened, he returned to his former employer and remained there until 1881. He developed a sewing machine, which contained the first automatic screw machine and studied now additionally technology.

In 1881 he moved to Milwaukee, where he was foreman at the Whitehill Sewing Machine Company, where he met his future business partner, the pattern maker Alonzo Pawling. On December 1, 1884 both established the company P & H Mining, which has now gone up in Joy Global.

By 1903 his company had 100 employees. 1911 ill Pawling and Harnischfeger hard earned shortly after the company's shares. After the death of a partner, the company was renamed Harnischfeger Corporation.

1892 Harnischfeger married Marie Kauwertz, with whom he had four children. In Milwaukee he left in 1905 by the architect Eugene Liebert build a house in the Neo-Renaissance style, which is a listed building today.

Harnischfeger was his hometown Salmuenster always connected. In 1930 he traveled to Salmuenster and founded a school, today's Henry Harnischfeger school. In the same year he died of a heart attack and was buried in the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. At this time, his firm employed 1500 workers and put cranes, excavators and construction machinery ago.

2009 Harnischfeger was recorded with Pawling in the National Mining Hall of Fame of the United States. The Harnischfeger Park in Dodge County is named after him.

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