Bernhard Pierburg
Heinrich Bernhard Pierburg (* 7. February 1869 in Dümpten ; † 28. May 1942 in Berlin ) was a German Wholesale - businessman and entrepreneur .
Life
To supply the motor vehicle and aircraft industry, Bernhard Pierburg founded the wholesale company Gebr. Pierburg oHG in Wilmersdorf near Berlin together with his brothers Heinrich-Hermann and Wilhelm and Alfred Urbscheidt in 1909 and took over the general agency for the Dörrenberg steelworks in Ründeroth . Since 1913, the company sales and French Solex - carburetor . In 1923 the company was converted into a stock corporation , the seat was now Berlin-Tempelhof . With the help of DaNat-Bank , the takeover of Arthur Haendler GmbH in Berlin, a wholesaler of Solex carburetors, and J. Mehlich AG in Berlin and Leipzig, whose management board included his brother Wilhelm, was succeeded in 1925 , while Bernhard Pierburg was on the supervisory board. In 1926 Pierburg acquired a production license for the Solex carburetor for 20 years . When DaNat-Bank became insolvent in 1931, Pierburg had to liquidate Gebr. Pierburg AG , but could continue carburetor production under the Solex license with the newly founded company Deutsche Vergaser-Gesellschaft mbH (DVG) . In addition, he founded the Autotechnik Beteiligungs- und Verwertungs-GmbH . In 1935 he had repaid all debts resulting from the global economic crisis . In 1937 he brought the two companies together with his four sons, including Alfred and Walter, under the roof of the newly founded Gebr. Pierburg KG holding . In 1941 he completely handed over the management of the company to his sons.
Bernhard Pierburg was chairman of the supervisory board of AG für Lackfabrikation in Hamm around 1929 and a member of the supervisory board of Dürkoppwerke AG in Bielefeld , R. Frister AG in Berlin and the Cologne-Berliner Versicherungs-AG belonging to the Gerling group .
Since 1921, Bernhard Pierburg was a corps loop bearer of the Corps Vitruvia Munich , to which his son Walter also belonged.
Bernhard Pierburg died in Berlin in 1942 at the age of 73. His final resting place is a hereditary burial with a half-height, three-axis grave wall on the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 8-B-45/48).
Awards
- 1921: Awarded an honorary doctorate (as Dr. phil. Hc) from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin
literature
- Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , column 1707.
- Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: Pierburg, Bernhard Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 429 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Philistine Association Vitruvia e. V. Munich : Directory of members as of January 1937, No. 525
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 493.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pierburg, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pierburg, Bernhard Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muffled |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |