Carl Rudolf Bergmann

Carl Rudolf Bergmann (born June 22, 1866 in Bernburg (Saale) , † December 1, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur . He founded and owned the Bergmann Envelopes Carl Rudolf Bergmann company in Berlin.

Life

He was the son of the papermaker Carl Bergmann and his wife Marie nee Becker. After attending grammar school in Bernburg, Carl Rudolf Bergmann founded his own paper and paper goods agency in 1894. Four years later he became an envelope manufacturer and founded the company later named after him in Berlin. In 1922 this factory was converted into a public limited company.

In 1904 he patented the folding device he had developed for the production of envelopes.

Carl Rudolf Bergmann was for many years the first chairman of the paper processing trade association and for several years chairman of the war committee for the German paper trade and for many years chairman of the technical committee for paper, graph. Winning and publishing at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In addition, Carl Rudolf Bergmann took the office of vice-president of the association of Berlin merchants and industrialists and chairman of the employers' association for the paper processing industry.

In Berlin he was elected a city councilor and was assistant judge at District Court I.

family

Carl Rudolf Bergmann married Elise Franziska Hösel (1874–1931), daughter of the Chemnitz businessman Otto Hösel , on September 1, 1887 in Chemnitz . The result of the marriage was Gertrud Bergmann (* 1905), who married Georg Kniestädt, concertmaster at the Berlin State Opera, in 1935. Gertrud Kniestädt inherited her father's company and had to file for bankruptcy in 1972.

Awards

literature

Carl Rudolf Bergmann, envelope factory, Berlin . In: Papierzeitung, Vol. 38, 1913, No. 33.
Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 103.

Individual evidence

↑ Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation, Volume 53, 1922, p. 263.
^ Patent Gazette: published by the Kaiserl. Patent Office, Volume 28, Part 1, 1904, p. 4.
↑ German Gender Book , Volume 129, 1962, p. 69.

personal data
SURNAME	Bergmann, Carl Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bergmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bernburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1939
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation, Volume 53, 1922, p. 263.

[2] Patent Gazette: published by the Kaiserl. Patent Office, Volume 28, Part 1, 1904, p. 4.

[3] German Gender Book , Volume 129, 1962, p. 69.