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Revision as of 15:32, 5 July 2015
Hugo Hirst (1863-1943), the Father of GEC, an immigrant who fiercely defended English industry from the pressure of German industry, especially before WW1. Later became Lord Hirst of Witton.
1863 November 26th. Born in Altenstadt, Bavaria, as Hugo Hirsch; he was the son of Emanuel Hirsch, a distiller later of Munich.
From 1870, he was educated in Munich, Bavaria, Germany where he studied chemistry.
1881. Aged 18 he came to London. Started work for a trading firm. Later moved to the Electrical Power Storage Co at Millwall.
1883. Naturalised with the name Hirst
1884[1] Joined Gustav Binswanger who had founded a firm selling electric appliances Electric Apparatus Co[2].
1889 Saw the business possibilities of manufacturing electrical appliances. With capital from his friends, Max and Gustav Binswanger (see Gustav Byng), they founded GEC.
1892 He married Leontine Hirsch, daughter of Herman (Norman) Hirsch, on 30 May 1892.
1904 HIRST, Hugo, Springmead, Fitzjohn's Aveline, London, N.W. Car: 22-h.p. Daimler. Is chairman of several electrical undertakings. Hobbies: Riding, skating, in mountaineering, driving. Believes motoring as giving absolute rest for a hard-worked brain, and being a health-giving form of locomotion. Clubs: Whitehall, Constitutional. [3]
1910 Became chairman of The General Electric Company.
1920 President of The British Electrical Development Association (BEDA).
1925 Baronet
1934 Baron Hirst of Witton, Warwickshire
1943 January 22nd. Died age 79
1943 Obituary [4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Times, Monday, Jan 25, 1943
- Motoring Annual and Motorist’s Year Book 1903