August Riedinger
German industrialist (1845-1919)
August Riedinger (9 October 1845 – 15 January 1919) was a German businessman who operated gas companies in Germany and Europe and also participated in balloon and airship manufacturing.
Life
Riedinger was born in 1845 as the son of the industrialist Ludwig August Riedinger in Augsburg. After six years of studies at the Zurich Polytechnic he entered his father's machinery and bronzeworks business in 1877.
His father died in 1879 when the business had 25 gasworks in Bavaria, and another 42 in the rest of Europe and a number of gas plants for factories and public buildings. In 1883 Riedinger took over the business and in 1887 when the company converted to the Joint stock company L. A. Riedinger Maschinen- und Bronzewarenfabrik AG, he became a member of its supervisory board. By then he had already founded the AG Vereinigte Gaswerke (AG United Gasworks) in Augsburg which by 1896 had grown to 17 gas work companies, for example in Bolzano, Lugano and Marburg.
He also worked in the executive committee of the German gas industry association (Gesellschaft für Gasindustrie). In 1889 he took part in the construction and operation of the Localbahn Innsbruck–Hall in Tirol. (a local railway).
From 1888 Riedinger began working with August von Parseval and Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld on the development of dirigible airships.
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