Schumann, Maximilian

Engineer officer, factory owner

born: 26.06.1827 in Buckau

died: 07.09.1889 in Schierke

Schumann joined the Prussian army as an officer candidate in 1845, attended the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin and alternated between troop and fortification service in the federal fortress of Mainz from 1857-67. From 1861 he held the rank of engineer captain. In 1863-65 he studied the use of iron in fortress construction in England. In 1868, Schumann was transferred to Berlin, where he designed an armored revolving gun emplacement, a minimal embrasure mount and an armored revolving turret for 2-15 cm guns.

In 1872, Schumann applied for his resignation as major, retired to Biebrich and invented the armored gun carriage, for which a patent application was filed. In 1882, Schumann sold his patent to the manufacturer Hermann Gruson from Magdeburg-Buckau. In 1885, he published the standard work "The importance of rotating gun emplacements for a radical reform of permanent fortifications" in Potsdam. He also improved the technology of the so-called Hotkiss revolver gun (a forerunner of the submachine gun) from England.

Schumann was buried in the Biebrich cemetery.