Adolf Greilich

Adolf Greilich (born December 29, 1871 in Alexandrow near Lodz , then Russia ; † November 15, 1922 in Obernigk in Silesia ) was a Russian or Polish entrepreneur and local politician .

Life

After his apprenticeship in the oldest local stocking factory in Poranski (formerly Laube), Greilich founded his own stocking mill in Alexandrow in 1893 with a single stocking machine. In the course of time, the AGA - Adolf Greilich Alexandrow company became the largest stocking factory in the area, the first mechanically operated and the first to use modern flat stocking machines in 1926. The company received various prizes and awards, was purveyor to the court of the Russian tsar in Saint Petersburg and had agents there as well as in Moscow , Tomsk , Riga , Kharkov , Rostov , Kiev and Odessa . Adolf Greilich was Mayor of Alexandrow from 1914 to 1918.

Company history

After Adolf Greilich's death, his sons took over the company and continued to run it under the company of Adolf Greilich's heirs . In the 1930s the company became Poland's largest stocking supplier with over 300 employees. Most of the smaller Alexandrov stocking factories, but also the larger ones such as Hauk & Frey (formerly Poranski) and Rudolf Schulz , were contractors for Greilich during this time .

After the Second World War , production in the US occupation zone of Germany was resumed as the mechanical stocking factory Greilich OHG in the Nuremberg area , initially with a stocking machine borrowed from Wilhelm Rebmann in Lauffen am Neckar in 1946 and continued until the 1960s.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Jewish painter and sculptor Henryk Glicenstein worked in Adolf Greilich's factory.

Web links

• detailed biography on www.heimat-bilder.de (domain offline on July 26, 2020)