Erich Selbach
Erich Selbach (born July 25, 1905 in Essen , † October 29, 1985 in Baden-Baden ) was a German entrepreneur .
Life
Erich Selbach, born in Essen in 1905, studied law in Tübingen, Göttingen and Münster. In Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1924 . After the second state examination in law, Selbach was legal advisor at the textile dyeing company in Krefeld from 1932 to 1938, and in 1937 he was appointed to the supervisory board of the Girmes-Werke Aktiengesellschaft; from 1938 to 1971 he was spokesman for the board.
From 1971 to 1977 Erich Selbach held the office of chairman of the supervisory board; from 1977 he was the honorary chairman of this group of companies. Major companies, e.g. B. Trinkaus , Kaufhof and the cellulose factory Phrix appointed Selbach to their supervisory board or advisory board.
Selbach was represented in numerous trade associations. From 1957 to 1974 he was President of the Krefeld Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and later Honorary President.
He was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. V. and holder of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
During the textile crisis in the 1970s, Selbach was able to increase Girmes sales by around 40%. After he resigned, Girmes-Werke went downhill in 1984, and in 1989 the corporation went bankrupt. In 2003 the successor GmbH went bankrupt. The debts had grown to almost 100 million euros. The insolvency administrator laid off 260 of 727 employees. In 2004 Tissavel bought Girmes assets and reduced the number of employees to 50.
The children Karl Heinrich Selbach and Erika Littmann geb. Selbach founded the Selbach Environment Foundation in Munich in memory of their father and his legacy . A street in Nettetal is named after Erich Selbach.
Works
- On the state of the German economy in autumn 1973 , oA
- The German economy in the field of tension between state and politics in the middle of 1976 , oA
- What moves us. Econ, Düsseldorf, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-430-18330-8 .
Web links
- Velvet without a care . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1968, p. 52 ( online ).
- Ingrid Neumann: Custom work - no assembly. In: The time . No. 23, 1966 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 801
- ↑ Swiridoff: Portraits from the German economy - Swiridoff illustrated books, volume 15. Günther Neske, Pfullingen 1966.
- ↑ Capital , January 1972
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selbach, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1985 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |