Hugo Schmeisser Portrait of Hugo Schmeisser (c. 1945) Born Hugo Schmeisser (1884-09-24)24 September 1884 Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire Died 12 September 1953(1953-09-12) (aged 68) Suhl, East Germany Occupation Inventor Relatives Louis Schmeisser (father)