Christian Gottfried Dierig

Christian Gottfried Dierig (born October 12, 1923 in Langenbielau , Silesia , † June 5, 2016 in Augsburg ) was a German textile entrepreneur. He was the son of Gottfried Dierig .

Dierig was CEO of what was once the largest textile company in Europe, founded in 1805 by Christian Gottlob Dierig . The Dierig Holding AG is now run by the sixth generation of Dierigs son, Christian Dierig. In today's Dierig Group, based in Augsburg, around 200 employees work in various textile subsidiaries of Dierig Holding AG and in property management.

With 15,000 employees, the Dierig company was one of the largest cotton spinning mills on the continent. CG Dierig was appointed to the management board of Dierig Holding AG in 1953 as well as managing director of Dierig Textilwerke GmbH.

After the Second World War , in which Christian Gottfried Dierig took part as an artillery lieutenant, the family's Silesian possessions were lost. After the war, Dierig found work as an auxiliary fitter in the Augsburg textile factories of the Dierig Group. These had already been acquired by the Dierig company in 1919. Through the acquisition of Hammersen Group in 1930 the Dierig Group was the owner of other textile factories in Augsburg, Kempten , Rheydt , Bocholt and Rheine .

After training as a textile engineer, Dierig was appointed to the management board of Christian Dierig AG in 1953, and he took over as chairman in 1969. In the 1960s, Dierig again became the largest textile company in Germany and employed up to 8,000 people. Dierig remained CEO of Christian Dierig AG and its successor company Dierig Holding AG until 1990 .

Dierig reacted to the structural change in the textile industry with means of mechanization and optimization of processes. Nevertheless, the group's sales declined in the late 1980s. In order to ensure the survival of the company, Dierig, who has been Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dierig Holding AG since 1990, developed a plan to withdraw from in-house production in Germany together with the management. In 1997 his son Christian Dierig became the spokesman for the management board of Dierig Holding AG. Since then, Dierig has concentrated on the textile trade, bed linen business and real estate management. In 2013 Christian Gottfried Dierig resigned from his supervisory board mandate and was appointed honorary chairman of the supervisory board.

Dierig was also President of the General Association of the Textile Industry of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Web links

• Christian Gottfried Dierig in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine. (No longer available online.) In: trauer-verbindungen.augsburger-allgemeine.de. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016 ; accessed on June 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.