Adolf Pfleiderer

Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer (born September 10, 1877 in Heilbronn , † September 20, 1957 in Großpertholz ) was a German entrepreneur.

Career

Pfleiderer was born as the son of the timber merchant Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer (1845–1896). His father founded the GA Pfleiderer Langholzhandlung (GAP) in Heilbronn in 1894 , which Adolf joined in 1895 after attending evening grammar school and training as a grocer. After the early death of his father, he took over management of the company from 1898 together with his younger brother Paul Otto Pfleiderer (1880–1960). In 1899/1900 he volunteered for one year with the Dragoon Regiment No. 26 in Stuttgart .

In 1910 he married Mathilde Großmann from Wiesbaden, and the connection resulted in five children. In 1922, Pfleiderer acquired a villa at Lerchenstrasse 79 in Heilbronn . He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, deputy commercial judge at the Heilbronn Regional Court and board member of the wholesale and warehouse professional association.

After the First World War , the Pfleiderer brothers shifted the business area to the industrial production of wood products, for which they founded a new plant in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . They also acquired numerous stakes in other companies, including a paper mill in Teisnach and a steam sawmill in Großpertholz . After the destruction of the central warehouse and the severe damage to Paul Otto Pfleiderer's private house by the bombing on December 4, 1944 , the central office in Neumarkt was also idOPf. relocated to where the company had been based since 1931.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Teisnach
• Honorary citizen of Karlstift
• Honorary citizen of Großpertholz
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Norbert Jung: Square III, grave row XIII, 28–30. A contribution to the Heilbronn entrepreneur family Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer , Heilbronn 2010.

Web links

• Company history of Pfleiderer AG