Carl Robert Wagner

Carl Robert Wagner (January 31 1859 - July 25 1931)[1] was a German entrepreneur and draftsman.

As founder of the company Rowac, he was responsible for bringing the first industrially produced steel stool to market.

Carl Robert Wagner was born in Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, on January 31, 1859.

After successfully completing his apprenticeship in metalworking, Wagner travelled through Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland as a journeyman from 1874 to 1879 and acquired not only technical know-how, but also an enormous amount of self-dependence.

He turned down an offer to work as a foreman in the spinning department of the Wiedesche Maschinenfabrik.