Adolf Flöring

Men's shoe factory Flöring of the Roland brand

Adolf Flöring Sr. (* 1862 in Barmen ; † 1924 in Wermelskirchen ) was a German entrepreneur in the shoe industry.

Career

After completing an apprenticeship as a tanner, the son of a coppersmith came to Wermelskirchen at the age of 16, where he entered the local leather and uppers industry as a dresser. As early as 1884, at the age of 22, he set up his own business in a small house on the local market. The company quickly flourished with the manufacture of leather and cargo stocks. In 1889 he built his own building for his production on what was then the upper Kohlgasse, now Carl-Leverkus-Straße.

His real merit for the leather industry in Wermelskirchen resulted from his far-sighted realization that the era of shaft manufacturing was coming to an end and only the manufacture of finished shoes had a future. Perhaps the realization that the Imperial Army was a mass army and that enormous quantities of men's boots would be required, promoted the development of large-scale production.

Soon the rooms on Telegrafenstrasse and Kohlgasse were no longer sufficient for production. That is why, from 1897, Adolf Flöring built a new factory in the then barely developed eastern part of the city. In order to round off the company premises and possible extensions, he bought further land from the vom Stein family, Wirtsmühle, in front of Notary Reichmann, Rep. 5738-41, certificate no. 324. The factory employed around 200 people through extensions and extensions.

Adolf Flöring was a member of the Wermelskirchen city council and the Bergische Chamber of Commerce. He died in 1924 at the age of 62 and left his son - with the same first name - a flourishing company.

literature

• O. Fischer: Wermelskirchen, the city of over 1000 years. Wermelskirchen 1926, p. 91f.
• G. Schumacher, G. Paetzer: Wermelskirchen - pictures and reports from the past and present. Remscheid 1983, ISBN 3-922055-69-9 , pp. 176f.
• NJ Breidenbach: Old farms and houses in the Wupperviereck of Wermelskirchen. Wermelskirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9802801-2-9 , p. 247