Adolf Gustav Seifert

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Adolf Gustav Seifert , also Adolf Seifert , (born December 6, 1861 in Zwickau , Saxony; † November 20, 1920 ) was managing director of the Schedewitz consumer association and from 1902 managing director of the large-scale purchasing company Deutscher Consumvereine m. b. H. (GEG), member of the committee of the Central Association of German Consumers .

Life

Adolf Seifert learned the commercial profession. From October 1, 1886, he was managing director of the Schedewitzer Konsumverein , Schedewitz (Saxony). He was one of the driving forces behind the founding of a purchasing company for the consumer cooperatives. When the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine was set up in 1894, he signed a capital contribution of 3,000 marks for his consumer association Schedewitz, the highest amount of all German consumer associations. From 1895 to 1902 he was a member of the supervisory board of this consumer cooperative goods and business center, in recent years as chairman of the supervisory board.

In 1899, at the invitation of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited (CWS), he traveled to England with six other members of the GEG's supervisory board, its managing director Ernst August Scherling and another member of the consumer cooperative to get to know the organization and operations of the CWS.

From 1902 to 1920 he was managing director of the large-scale purchasing company of German consumer associations.

From 1914 until 1920 he was a member of the committee of the Central Association of German Consumers.

When the Volksfürsorge union-cooperative insurance company was founded, he was elected to the company's deputy supervisory board.

Seifert was a cautious businessman who refused daring speculations and unsafe experiments. In the management of the GEG he was considered a counterweight with a moderating influence on the forward-charging daredevil Heinrich Lorenz .

literature

  • Heinrich Kaufmann : The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Will and Action. The way of the German consumer cooperative movement. Hamburg 1953
  • Wilhelm Fischer: 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954.
  • Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Erwin Hasselmann: History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 390.
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Adolf Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German consumer cooperative and managing director
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1920