Erhard Wolff
Erhard Wolff (* 1880 in Bucharest ; † 1965 ) was a Romanian industrialist of Swiss descent.
Life
Erhard Wolff was of Swiss descent. His father Erhard Wolff had settled as a machine manufacturer in Bucharest. His grandfather was the Zurich Councilor Hans Wolf, his great-grandfather the Zurich Councilor Johannes Wolf. To attend school he went to Winterthur and obtained his Matura there . He then practiced at the metalworking school for a year before going to the Technical University of Stuttgart to study engineering . There he became a member of the Stauffia Corps in 1901 .
After completing his studies, he joined the enterprises of his father, who until his death in a factory in Bucharest for the production of petroleum tanks, cisterns, iron structures and cranes with a branch plant in Constanza , a cloth factory in the Vltava River and a copper mine in the Dobrogea included . Wolff continued to expand the machine factory. Under his leadership, it developed into one of the most important companies in Romania.
With the communist upheaval in Romania at the end of the Second World War , Wolff was expropriated from his company and had to live in complete isolation in Romania until he was allowed to leave the country with his family in 1958. After his departure he lived in Stuttgart .
literature
- Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, pp. 145–150
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Christian Baertschi: Wolf (Wolff), Erhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Christian Baertschi: Wolf, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian industrialist of Swiss descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1965 |