Carl Kressmann
Carl Kreßmann ( Carl III ) (born January 4, 1897 in Gera ; † May 8, 1975 in Hildesheim ) was a German department store owner.
biography
Kreßmann was the son of the businessman Wilhelm Kreßmann and the grandson of the entrepreneur Konrad Kreßmann . He attended secondary school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. He served as a soldier in the First World War . Then he worked in various textile houses. His grandfather took over the Rudolf Honig textile company in Schwerin in 1910 . In 1926, Carl Kreßmann was co-owner of the Kressmann textile house in Schwerin, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse (today Mecklenburgstrasse 19/21/23). In 1936 he bought and ran a department store in Hildesheim, which was destroyed in the war in 1944 and then rebuilt.
Kreßmann was married and had children.
Today's textile houses Kressmann in Hildesheim, Schwerin and Wismar are run by family members of the fifth generation (as of 2020).
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The lexicon of people , Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kreßmann, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kressmann, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German department store clerk |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1975 |
| Place of death | Hildesheim |