The royally Saxonian Kommerzienrat Carl Ernst Mey (* 5 September 1844 in Niederschmiedeberg; "† 30 January 1903 in Leipzig) was an entrepreneur in Paris and Leipzig.

In the year 1867 it acquired Gray's American Mouled PAPER Collar CO into of Paris an US-American patent for Papierkragen and paper seals as well as the business of the past owner, the company ". "and its own company based. In the year 1868 it accepted his youth friend Bernhard Edlich as a partner; since then the business firmierte as a company Mey & Edlich.

In the year 1869 Mey shifted the company of Paris into the municipality troubling joke to the west of Leipzig, where her up to the nationalization in the middle 20. Century produced. Subsequently, it was shifted to Munich.

As a member of the Plagwitzer of local council Mey supported the building of the welfare and church (first Plagwitzer church).

Ernst Mey and his Mrs. Emma, geb. Wrankmore had five daughters and two sons.

In the year 1884 Mey began additionally with the production of Celluloid goods in Schleussig. From this enterprise later the German Celluloidfabrik AG developed.

With the publication first lists of goods illustrated in the year 1886 are considered to Mey as founders of the German distributing house. In addition it created addresses in Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, London and Zurich.

In the year 1888 the past Plagwitzer Elsterstrasse, in which the factories Meys lay, was renamed after that straight (seriousness Mey road).

On 30 January 1903 Ernst Mey at the age of 59 years in Leipzig died. He was buried on the cemetery troubling joke. Its great, tomb worth seeing created the Leipziger sculptor Professor Adolf Lehnert (1862-1948).

On 3 June 1903 his widow and its children handed to the office for arm over of the city Leipzig a capital at a value of 20.000 Goldmark to a seriousness Mey donation (document from 20 July 1903, legally responsible with regulation from 7 August 1903). Their interest is to be distributed to the half to arms in Leipzig troubling joke and to the other half to arms in the rest of Leipzig.

In the year 2004 the company had to announce Mey & Edlich bankruptcy.

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