Dieter Freudenberg

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Dieter Freudenberg (born February 20, 1926 in Weinheim ; † October 1, 2010 ) was a German entrepreneur.

Act

After high school graduation , military service and imprisonment, Freudenberg joined the Freudenberg Group in 1945 and was initially trained in sales and in managing foreign relations for the then dominant leather business. He spent longer teaching stays abroad, including in London, Paris, South Africa and Argentina. In 1953 he initially took on sales tasks in the company and received power of attorney in the following year . From 1959 to 1990 he was a personally liable partner, after which he was a member of the shareholders' committee until 1998.

From 1971 to 2002 Freudenberg was a member of the Weinheim City Council. In 1986 he founded the Domhof Foundation in Weinheim to promote musical youth. Together with his wife, he put together a unique collection of more than 800 historical musical instruments, which they bequeathed to the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in 2000 , the basis for the Mannheim Bassermannhaus Museum for Music and Art .

Freudenberg was made an honorary member by TSG Weinheim in 1998 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morgenweb, Museum mourns the patron Freudenberg ( memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), October 7, 2010
  2. ↑ Freudenberg, Dieter. In: TSG Lexicon. Special edition of the TSG Journal for the Jubilee, TSG Weinheim, March 2012, p. 13. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsg-weinheim.de
personal data
SURNAME Freudenberg, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2010