Eduard Würfel

Eduard Würfel

Eduard Würfel (born February 18, 1860 in Hamburg , † October 5, 1917 in Hamburg) was a German cooperative member and managing director of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG).

Eduard Würfel was born in Hamburg on February 18, 1861. He learned Großhandelskaufmann in the grocery industry and was also as taught for several years worked. He was then accountant for the club bakery in Hamburg for half a year and an accountant for the tobacco workers' cooperative for eight years. Both were productive cooperatives . During this time, he volunteered to manage other productive cooperatives. Later he was elected to the honorary administration of the bourgeois consumer cooperative, the New Society for the Distribution of Living Needs of 1856 . He was a secretary of the company's trade commission and was an employee of the company for a year. In September 1902 he moved to the large purchasing company of German consumer associations and was here the representative for the districts of Northwest Germany and Rhineland-Westphalia. When these districts were separated, Würfel took over the representation for the northwestern district. In 1904 the management appointed him as a dispatcher at the headquarters at Besenbinderhof in Hamburg. The general assembly meeting in Eisenach on June 23, 1908, elected him as authorized signatory at the suggestion of the management and the supervisory board. On June 17, 1914, he was elected managing director of the GEG in Bremen.

On October 5, 1917, he died in Hamburg after a long illness.

literature

• Wilhelm Fischer : 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954.
• Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• Heinrich Kaufmann : The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919.