August Judge

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August Ertheiler (born September 15, 1863 in Nuremberg , † January 5, 1960 in Nuremberg) was a German food entrepreneur ( industrialist ), food lobbyist , commercial judge and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit . He was a co-founder and long-time president of the umbrella association of the Federation of German Food Manufacturers and Traders .

life and career

August Ertheiler was born in Nuremberg in 1863 as the son of the liqueur manufacturer Anton Ertheiler. In 1855, Anton Ertheiler and Eduard Vollrath founded a spirits and liqueur factory with an attached wine trade under the name E. Vollrath & Co. and took over sole ownership of the company in 1875. After attending grammar school in Nuremberg, August Ertheiler joined his father's company in 1880.

In 1901 August Ertheiler, together with the food chemist Robert Kayser and the entrepreneur Otto Pfaeffle, proposed the establishment of an umbrella association for the then highly fragmented food industry, the Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders . Its founding meeting took place on May 19, 1901. The office of the association was in Ertheiler's hometown Nuremberg.

In early 1914, Ertheiler went on a study trip through Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) and India . At the time of the First World War , Ertheiler worked as a consultant for field food and people's nutrition in the War Ministry in Berlin. He then published his work in 1919 The collecting system in the war economy . In 1922 Ertheiler converted his company E. Vollrath & Co. into a stock corporation and became its general director .

In 1928 the Bavarian state awarded August Ertheiler the honorary title of a secret commercial councilor .

Ertheiler was chairman and board member of numerous associations, such as the Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders, the Association of German Spirits and Spirits Interested Parties and the Association of German Fruit and Beverage Wineries. In addition, Ertheiler was an assessor at the Cartel Court , a member of the Reich Health Council and a commercial judge . From 1904 to 1934 he was a member of the Pegnese Flower Order .

In 1939 Ertheiler emigrated to Switzerland, but later returned to Nuremberg. From 1952 until his death in 1960 August Ertheiler lived in a manufacturer's villa at Virchowstraße 15 in Nuremberg.

The Vollrath company still exists today, but was taken over by the Humbser Brewery (later Patrician) in 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Volume 3. Munich 2006: Saur.
  2. ^ History of the Vollrath company .
  3. ^ Federation for food law and food science: From the Nuremberg Federation to the BLL. Over 100 years of association history
  4. ↑ Pegnesischer Blumenorden (2016): Stammliste
  5. ^ Nürnberger Zeitung / Claudia Maue (August 16, 2010): Splendor and misery of the factory owners. The villas on Virchowstrasse .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1960
Place of death Nuremberg