Conrad Tack

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Conrad Tack (born June 30, 1844 in Krefeld ; † March 4, 1919 in "Berlin- Strausberg " ) was a German entrepreneur and co-founder of the Conrad Tack & Cie shoe factory . in Burg near Magdeburg .

Tack initially operated a silk trade in Brühl . In 1883 he founded a shoe factory with his brother Jean Tack and Wilhelm Dedermann. In 1888, after Hermann Krojanker's entry, the company became a partner in Conrad Tack & Cie. renamed, at the highest times 4,000 pairs of shoes were produced, after his withdrawal even up to 3 million pairs. In 1894, after problems with the workforce, he created the benefit and auxiliary health insurance fund. Approx. In 1905 he retired from the company and went to Berlin, where he also died in 1919. He is considered a pioneer in the shoe industry, as he was the first to set up and establish his own company shoe stores. The shoe stores even had their own children's magazine “Der gute Conrad” with puzzles and stories.

After the Tack family left in 1905, Conrad Tack & Cie. Taken over by the previous Jewish partners Wilhelm Krojanker and Alfred Zweig. After Wilhelm Krojanker's death, his son Hermann succeeded him in 1924.

During the global economic crisis , the company got into financial difficulties. In autumn 1932, Hermann Krojanker was already negotiating a takeover of Conrad Tack & Cie. by Freudenberg , as he could no longer pay his outstanding debts with his largest leather supplier. When the situation for the Jewish owners of the Tack company, the Krojanker family, became untenable from 1933 onwards, Freudenberg took over the Krojanker shares at a price that was fair at the time. The negotiations took place in a friendly atmosphere.

In Burg the "Conrad-Tack-Ring" and the "Vocational School Conrad Tack" of the district of Jerichower Land are named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With Berlin-Strausberg is Strausberg meant. From 1912 onwards, all municipalities (with the exception of Berlin), which from the same year worked as members of the Greater Berlin Association in purposes (landscape conservation, water supply, wastewater treatment, garbage disposal, traffic planning, etc.), officially added Berlin- in front of their place names. The municipalities led the way with the founding of the association and the addition of a name, where the royal Prussian State Ministry slowed down the creation of Greater Berlin. With the formation of Greater Berlin by the republican Prussian State Ministry in 1920, most of the member municipalities of the association became legally part of Berlin and the suffix applied to them. Strausberg, although a member of the association, remained independent and the addition was dropped in 1920.
  2. ^ Paul Nüchterlein: Tack, Conrad. In: Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon. ( online , last accessed November 4, 2010)
  3. ↑ http://dideldum.gmxhome.de/conrad.htm
  4. ^ Karin Hönicke: Tack - Europe's oldest large shoe company. 110 years of the shoe industry in Burg. Oschersleben 2005, p. 33.
  5. ^ Sybilla Schuster: The leather factories Freudenberg and Hirsch in the time of the Third Reich. In: The city of Weinheim between 1933 and 1945. (= Weinheimer Geschichtsblatt, 38.) Weinheim 2000, pp. 313–349, p. 325.
  6. ↑ A letter in which Hermann Krojanker thanks for the "friendly, elegant form" of the negotiations is printed in Hönicke, p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Tack, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, co-founder of the shoe factory Conrad Tack & Cie
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1919
Place of death Berlin-Strausberg