Carl Emanuel Knorr

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carl Emanuel Knorr (born May 18, 1881 in Heilbronn ; † September 9, 1952 ) was a German entrepreneur in the food industry.

Life

Family grave of the Knorr family (right panel)

Carl Emanuel Knorr was the son of the food entrepreneur Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr and the Basel banker's and landowner's daughter Lucy Marguerite nee. La Roche (1855-1881). His grandfather was Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr , founder of the Knorr food company . After attending grammar school and secondary school in Heilbronn, he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart , the Technical University of Berlin , the Neuchâtel Academy and the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main . In Stuttgart he became a member of the Corps Teutonia . After further professional training in Heilbronn and Dresden, he joined CH Knorr AG, food factories in Heilbronn on August 1, 1906 . In 1912 he became a deputy member of the board and took over the management of the entire export business from his father. On April 1, 1919, he was appointed a full member of the Management Board and remained so until June 1932. He then moved to the company's supervisory board, to which he belonged until his death.

During the First World War , Knorr was used as Rittmeister of the Reserve in various formations of the 27th Infantry Division. He was married to Ellen Kiesselbach, with whom he had three children. Until 1923 he lived with his family for a few years in the Villa Dopfer at Gutenbergstrasse 37 in Heilbronn. In 1923 he had a villa built in nearby Alexanderstrasse by the Stuttgart architect Hugo Schlösser .

literature

  • Knorr, Carl. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 959.
  • Knorr, Carl. In: 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 , Sp. 1182–1183.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 293.
  2. ↑ Alexander Knorr: Knorr Chronicle 1838 to 1959. Volume I - 1838 to 1938 . Deutsche Maizena Werke GmbH, Hamburg 1959, p. 20, p. 27, p. 43f. and p. 81
  3. ↑ Alexander Knorr: Knorr Chronicle 1838 to 1959. Volume III - 1949 to 1954 . Deutsche Maizena Werke GmbH, Hamburg 1959, p. 262
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Carl Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the food industry
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1952