Carl Albert Schiffers

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Carl Albert Schiffers (born January 13, 1935 - † November 28, 2014 in Neuss am Rhein ) was a German entrepreneur and president of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein .

Life

Carl Albert Schiffers was the second of four children from the marriage of Erich A. Schiffers and Marie Louise Bicheroux. He was an alumnus of the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and passed the Swiss commercial diploma there. He completed an apprenticeship as a seaport freight forwarder in Düsseldorf and Hamburg and worked in shipbuilding in London and in a ship agency in Paris. After the death of his father, he joined the family business and, together with his brother Erhardt, took over the Köhler am Büchel department store, and from 1989 Köhler market house in Neuss am Rhein.

Schiffers was a city ​​councilor in Neuss and chairman of the city finance committee from 1961 to 2009 . From 1983 to 1989 he was President of the Middle Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He was also one of four vice-presidents of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA) , treasurer of the Main Association of German Retailers (HDE) . Schiffers was for many years chairman of the board of directors of the trade association for the retail trade and chairman of the administrative board of the non-profit workshops in Neuss (GWN).

In 1968 Carl Albert Schiffers was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and on July 8, 1968 in Munich by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy, and Hermann Josef Abs , Lieutenant in Germany, in invested the order. He was last Commander of the Order.

Carl Albert Schiffers had been married to Walburga Cremer since 1958. The marriage had four children.

Honors

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  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who 2001, page 1225
  • Public Life Paperback 2003, Volume 52, Page 1496

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ludger Baten: On the death of Carl Albert Schiffers , Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper NGZ , November 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Obituary notice of Carl Albert Schiffers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rheinische Post , December 3, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / trauer.rp-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schiffers, Carl Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, President of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1935
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2014
Place of death Neuss on the Rhine