Ewald Fritsch

Ewald Fritsch (born October 19, 1841 in Stolp , Pomerania ; † May 18, 1897 in Leipzig ) was one of the founders of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG) and its first chairman of the supervisory board.

Ewald Fritsch

Life

Ewald Fritsch was the oldest son of the bookseller Fritsch in Stolp. He graduated from high school in his hometown. He learned in the colonial goods industry and then worked as a warehouse clerk, correspondent and accountant in Stettin and Hamburg and in a Harburg ironworks.

In Harburg , which at that time was not yet part of Hamburg, he devoted himself to the consumer cooperative system. He was appointed head of the local consumer association in Harburg, eGmbH .

In this function, he was one of the founders of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH, Hamburg (GEG) in 1894 . He became the first chairman of the supervisory board of the new company. He held this office until his death in 1897.

As chairman of the supervisory board of the GEG for Heinrich Kaufmann (who later became the father figure of the consumer cooperative movement of the Hamburg direction), Fritsch was able to establish important contacts with the leading German consumer cooperatives.

literature

• Heinrich Kaufmann: The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919. This article essentially follows the presentation there.

Individual evidence

1. ^ [1] Burchard Bösche : Heinrich Kaufmann, founder and father figure of the ZdK , lecture given at the 2nd Hamburg conference on the history of the cooperative from 2.-3. November 2007 - Founders of the cooperative and their ideas. Page 2, pdf 65 kB, accessed April 12, 2008