Carl Schwenk

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Carl Schwenk (born September 12, 1852 in Ulm ; † December 19, 1942 there ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur . He was the owner of E. Schwenk, Cement- und Betonsteinwerke Ulm and several subsidiaries .

Life

As the son of the company's founder Eduard Schwenk (1812–1869) and his wife Marie Schwenk (née Reichardt; 1828–1904), he grew up in Ulm. The ancestors of the family can be traced back to Ulm in 1427. He attended secondary school in Ulm and completed a commercial apprenticeship in Stuttgart from 1868 . He did his one-year voluntary military service with the royal Württemberg field artillery regiment No. 13 "King Karl" in Ulm and was later a reserve or Landwehr officer. From 1873 he studied at the University of Zurich in the chemical, technical and natural science subjects. Here he joined the Corps Tigurinia .

In 1874 he joined the family company, which was founded in 1847. As a first innovation, he set up a laboratory for quality assurance in production in 1875 and in 1876 brought the first precast concrete parts (contemporary "cement goods") onto the market.

On August 28, 1879, he married Lina Ebner, the daughter of Kommerzienrat Friedrich Ebner and his wife Regina Heinrich.

At the end of the 1880s, he began to expand the company's production capacities. Further cement works started production on July 16, 1889 in Allmendingen and in 1901 in Mergelstetten , and in 1904 a terrazzo and gravel plant was added in Herrlingen .

His son Carl Schwenk (1883–1978) joined the company in 1913, and it was further expanded under their direction. After the First World War, the son officially became a partner when the company was converted into a general partnership. At the end of the 1920s, the company entered the building materials trade. In 1933 production was relocated from Ulm to Thalfingen . Our own further development, the lightweight panel , has been produced in the Allmendingen plant since 1930.

In Ulm, Carl Schwenk was also involved in local politics; for many years he was a member of the city council. Since the family also invested the profits in shares in other companies, Schwenk was a member of various supervisory boards . Most recently he was an honorary member of the German Concrete Association . He lived in Ulm, Hindenburgring 29, the company's headquarters.

Awards

literature

  • 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 , column 2097.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1747.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 10th edition, Berlin 1935.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 402 f .
  • Albrecht Rieber: Pedigree swivel. ( Facsimile of an unpublished partial preprint from 1940) Sprockhövel 1997, ISBN 3-928441-29-9 .
  • Wolfgang Ollrog (edit.): Der Schlüssel, Volume 5. Complete tables of contents with location sources for genealogical, heraldic and historical journals. Evaluation of all genealogical-heraldic journals published in the Federal Republic from 1945 to December 31, 1960. Heinz Reise-Verlag, Göttingen 1961, ISSN  0934-4918 (unchanged new edition, n.d. , ISBN 3-7686-3057-9 ), p 1408.
  • Richard Winkler:  Pan. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 66 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 144 , 139
personal data
SURNAME Pan, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1942
Place of death Ulm