Alfred Knorr

Tomb of the industrialist family Knorr in Heilbronn

Knorr family grave (right panel)

Villa Knorr, Bismarckstrasse. 50

Karl Alfred Knorr (born November 28, 1846 in Heilbronn ; † May 28, 1895 ibid) was a German entrepreneur and headed the Knorr food company .

Life

Alfred Knorr was the last born child of the company founder Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800–1875), his mother was his second wife Amalie Henriette Caroline Knorr, nee. Seyffardt (1806-1867). This marriage also gave birth to four more children: Anna Knorr (1839–1875), who married Carl Monninger in 1861, Olga Knorr (1840–1911), Ludwig Otto Knorr (1841–1842) and Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr (1843–1921) ).

Alfred Knorr completed parts of his apprenticeship and his first professional years in France and England. In 1870 he joined his father's food company, succeeding his brother Carl Heinrich Eduard, who had already taken this step in 1866. Alfred Knorr was primarily interested in technical issues, while his brother was commercially oriented. The two brothers brought the idea with them from France to make soup preparations from dried ingredients. In the meantime, Alfred Knorr took part in the Franco-German War from 1870–1871 in the service of a medical corps.

After the company's founder died in 1875, the two sons jointly took over management of the company. They laid experimental gardens to improve the soup ingredients and with the construction of a mill in the south quarter in 1884 the foundation stone for the long-standing company premises (today Knorrstrasse 1). The 1860s brought the company a huge boom. In addition to its soup preparations, it also produced dried vegetables, military canned food and the well-known Knorr oatmeal, among other things. In 1885 packing stations were opened in Austria and Switzerland in order to avoid an increase in import duties in these countries. Knorr ready-made soups were not only offered as powder in bags, but from 1886 as bars, from 1889 in sausage form (the legendary pea sausage ), in 1897 as tablets and in 1910 in the form of soup cubes.

Alfred Knorr had been with Marie Therese Knorr, born in 1873. Rupfer (born October 29, 1854 in Stuttgart, † September 16, 1936 in Heilbronn) married. The two had four children: Otto Knorr (1874–1909), Alfred Walther Knorr (1875–1875), Anna Knorr (1877–1954), later married to Carl Keiper, and Rudolf Alfred Knorr (1880–1918).

Alfred Knorr died on May 28, 1895 at the age of 48. He was buried in the family grave designed by the Stuttgart sculptor Emil Kiemlen in the Heilbronn main cemetery. Due to his early death, he did not see the completion of his house at Bismarckstrasse 50 in Heilbronn. His widow and children moved into it in 1896 and called the villa Frau Alfred Knorr . After Alfred Knorr's death, his brother Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr took over sole management of the company.

literature

• Alexander Knorr: Knorr Chronicle 1838 to 1959. Volume I - 1838 to 1938 . Deutsche Maizena Werke GmbH, Hamburg 1959
• Uwe Jacobi: 150 years of Knorr: 1838–1988 . Maizena Gesellschaft mbH, Heilbronn 1988
• Werner Thunert u. a .: They made history. Twelve portraits of famous Heilbronn residents . Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1977, pp. 80-88
• Around the world with the pea sausage. Carl Heinrich Knorr and his sons Carl and Alfred . In: Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn heads . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-64-0 ( Small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives . 42), pp. 40–49
• Arnold, Jürg: The Cloß family of merchants and manufacturers in Winnenden and Heilbronn / Neckar with contributions to the life stories of Robert Mayer, CH Knorr and Paul Hegelmaier . Association for family and heraldry in Württemberg and Baden eV, Stuttgart 1987.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume I.5 Heilbronn district . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 141