Carl Johann Freudenberg

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Carl Johann Freudenberg
The coat of arms of the Carl Freudenberg tannery, 1874

Carl Johann Freudenberg (* 1819 in Hachenburg in the Westerwald ; † 1898 in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Freudenberg was the fourth of six children of the Hachenburg mayor and innkeeper of the Goldener Löwe inn , Georg Wilhelm Freudenberg, and his wife Catharina Elisabeth, née. Reinhardt (1789–1843), born. His mother came from a respected family in Neuwied , which also included his cousin, the banker and Mannheim mayor Johann Wilhelm Reinhardt . His grandson was the philologist Karl Reinhardt .

Freudenberg lost his father at the age of nine. When Carl was 14, his mother gave Carl as an apprentice in the Mannheim leather trading house of her brother-in-law, Jean Baptiste Sammet. In 1844 Carl Freudenberg entered his business as a silent partner. From 1849 on, he was a partner in the "Heintze und Freudenberg" tannery , which originally belonged to the company.

In 1874 the partner Heintze died. Carl Freudenberg was now the sole owner. In 1887 he took on his two sons Friedrich Carl and Hermann Ernst as partners. After his death in 1898, they continued to run the company in his spirit. His daughter Auguste married the school reformer Karl Reinhardt .

From these beginnings, the Freudenberg Group developed with annual sales of EUR 9.356 billion in 2017 and over 47,000 employees worldwide, which is still exclusively family-owned today.

literature

  • New German Biography Vol. 5, p. 409 Family article "Freudenberg"
  • Freudenberg, Karl Johann, ed. Writings of the Freudenberg family in Weinheim, 3 volumes, Heidelberg 1969–1976. Printed as a manuscript, not in stores.
  • Pinnow, Dr. Hermann, 100 years of Carl Freudenberg, Munich 1949. Not in trade
  • Freudenberg, Reinhart; Schuster, Sibylla: 150 years of Freudenberg. The development of a family business from a tannery to an international group of companies. Weinheim 1999
  • Grathoff, Stefan, History of the City of Hachenburg, published by the City of Hachenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036381-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report 2017 of the Freudenberg Group: https://www.freudenberg.com/fileadmin/downloads/deutsch/2018.04.17_Freudenberg-Geschaeftsbericht2017.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Freudenberg, Carl Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachenburg , Westerwald
DATE OF DEATH 1898
Place of death Weinheim an der Bergstrasse