Adolf Schindling

Adolf Schindling (center) on his 70th birthday on November 10, 1957 (left: Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Werner Bockelmann)

Josef Adolf Andreas Schindling (born November 10, 1887 in Höchst am Main , † August 22, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Adolf Schindling was the youngest of five children in a long-established fishing family. His father Anton Peter Schindling (1848–1925) was a fisherman and ferryman in Höchst. His mother Catharina Schindling geb. Sauer (1844–1920) was from Fischbach im Taunus. Adolf Schindling enjoyed a commercial apprenticeship in the Höchst machine factory and iron foundry Breuer-Werke GmbH . Then he worked in a foundry in Kaiserslautern . Until 1910 he did his military service in the naval artillery in the German colony of Tsingtau . He took part in the First World War as a naval officer. His last rank was first lieutenant . In 1921 Schindling married Elisabeth Charlotte Paulus (1889–1959). A daughter Liselott (1927–1999) was born from the marriage.

former VDO headquarters in Ffm-Bockenheim

Together with Georg Häußler, who comes from Bischweiler in Alsace , Schindling founded OSA-Apparate GmbH in 1920 . OSA is an acronym for Otto Schulze Autometer . Schulze was an inventor from Strasbourg who applied for a patent for the eddy current tachometer in 1902 . The company founded by Schindling and his partner initially only had the business purpose of selling the speedometers produced by Schulze. After a year, the company name was changed to OTA - for Offenbacher Tachometerwerke - and in 1923 the company began producing speedometers itself. Through the merger with the Berlin speedometer manufacturer DEUTA (for Deutsche Tachometer-Werke GmbH), the company VDO Tachometer AG was founded in 1929 . The "V" in the name of the new company should originally stand for Andreas Veigel , a competitor from Cannstatt . However, Veigel canceled the planned triple merger at the last moment (later his company went bankrupt). The other two mergers left the "V" in the name of the new company and called it United Deuta-Ota - VDO. In 1929, Adolf Schindling built a new plant in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim . The company had 300 employees at the time. The automotive industry was booming and the company developed into one of the most important suppliers to the automotive, ship and aircraft industries. Schindling expanded its product portfolio to include a large number of different measuring instruments for motor vehicles, such as speed, oil level, brake pressure, fuel gauges, clocks, hour meters, tachographs and much more. As a partner, Schindling was one of the company's three board members. Häussler left the company before 1938. His shares were divided between Schindling and Deuta, so that each of the now remaining partners owned 50% of the company. When the Deuta Group left the company as a partner in 1942, Schindling took over the entire company, in which, apart from himself, only his wife and daughter were involved. After the Second World War he renamed the company VDO Adolf Schindling GmbH . In 1958 it employed 3,000 people.

Schindling was a horse lover and owned the Asta stud ( A dolf S chindling Ta nneck) in Tanneck near Cologne . His daughter Liselott, who took over the management of the company with her husband after his death, was internationally very successful as a dressage rider.

Family grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Honors

1955 Honorary Senator of the TH Darmstadt .
1957 Large Federal Cross of Merit
1957 plaque of honor of the city of Frankfurt am Main

Web links

Literature by and about Adolf Schindling in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ 100 years of DEUTA (PDF file; 552 kB) DEUTA-WERKE GmbH (publisher)
↑ vdo tachometer works adolf schindling gmbh. ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) quoted by: F. Lerner: Frankfurt am Main and seine Wirtschaft. Ammelburg-Verlag, 1958
^ Ulrich Eisenbach: Schindling, Josef Adolf Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 793 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Schindling, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schindling, Josef Adolf Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt-Höchst
DATE OF DEATH	22nd August 1963
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] 100 years of DEUTA (PDF file; 552 kB) DEUTA-WERKE GmbH (publisher)

[2] vdo tachometer works adolf schindling gmbh. ( Memento from May 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) quoted by: F. Lerner: Frankfurt am Main and seine Wirtschaft. Ammelburg-Verlag, 1958

[3] Ulrich Eisenbach: Schindling, Josef Adolf Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 793 f. ( Digitized version ).