Albert Steigenberger

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Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt am Main
Inselhotel Konstanz
A. Steigenberger Hotelgesellschaft KGaA shares of DM 1000 in December 1954

Albert Steigenberger (born November 3, 1889 in Deggendorf ; † October 19, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German hotelier and founder of Steigenberger Hotels .

Life

The son of a textile merchant received his commercial training in the small family business, gained practical experience in the USA in 1912 and modernized his father's company on his return, to which he added a spinning mill.

After the First World War , he got into the power supply and property business, took over the hotel "Europäische Hof" in Baden-Baden in 1930 and created a high-performance hotel chain in West Germany from these beginnings. Until his death, the A. Steigenberger Hotelgesellschaft KGaA included the "Drei Mohren" in Augsburg , the " Frankfurter Hof " in Frankfurt am Main , the " Ritters Park Hotel " in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , the "Badische Hof" in Baden-Baden and the “Park Hotel” in Düsseldorf . Steigenberger also ran a wine wholesaler and sparkling wine cellar , a laundry factory and large restaurants in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart .

His son Egon Steigenberger (1926–1985) took over the family business. After Egon's death in 1985, the hotel company was run by Anne-Marie Steigenberger, Egon Steigenberger's widow, and daughters Christine, Claudia and Bettina Steigenberger in a stock corporation until it was sold to the Egyptian tourism group Travco in August 2009 . The grandson Albert Steigenberger jr. had had his inheritance of 25 million DM paid off. The family owned 99.6 percent of the shares until it was sold to Travco.

Grave of Albert Steigenberger

He is buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Siedenbiedel: Die Steigenbergers In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of August 23, 2009, p. 34
  2. ↑ http://www.stiegbergerhotelgroup.com/geschichte
personal data
SURNAME Steigenberger, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main