Adolf Zapp
Adolf Zapp (born March 11, 1869 in Hagen ; † September 7, 1941 in Metzkausen ) was a German entrepreneur.
Life
Adolf Zapp came from the Bergische Zapp family , which verifiably operated iron mining and later steel production since the first half of the 17th century. In the first half of the 19th century, his grandfather Gustav Adolf Zapp was one of the first German iron manufacturers to introduce the puddling process in the Ründeroth steel hammer. His father was the steel wholesaler Robert Zapp.
After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, he studied mechanical engineering and metallurgy at the technical universities in Munich and Berlin-Charlottenburg. In Munich he became a member of the Corps Franconia in 1891 . In 1895 he took over the management of his father's steel trade, the Robert Zapp company, and became its co-owner in 1896. In 1887 the company received the exclusive sales rights for Krupp tool steel and later the exclusive sales rights for Krupp stainless steel. Together with his brothers Carl Zapp and Gustav Zapp, he decisively developed the company further. In 1931 the company, headquartered in Düsseldorf, had German branches in Berlin, Chemnitz, Erfurt, Frankfurt (Main), Gevelsberg, Halle (Saale), Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart and foreign subsidiaries in Amsterdam, Liège, Milan, Paris and Zurich.
In the First World War, Adolf Zapp took part as Rittmeister of the Landwehr cavalry.
literature
- Zapp, Adolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 2082.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 172 , 529
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zapp, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1941 |
| Place of death | Metzkausen |