Friedrich Paul Fikentscher
Friedrich Paul Fikentscher (born May 15, 1861 in Zwickau ; † February 4, 1924 in Munich ) was a German businessman , entrepreneur , commercial judge and city councilor and, with the military rank of major, commander in chief of the 9th Royal Saxon Reserve Battalion No. 133 in Zwickau. He was the first investor in A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke AG in Zwickau.
Life
Paul Fikentscher was one of the main owners and board members of the stoneware factory Friedrich Chr. Fikentscher GmbH , founded in 1845 by Friedrich Christian Fikentscher in Zwickau as a glassworks , founding father and president of the Saxon-Thuringian Automobile Club (SThAC), founded in 1903 together with automakers from the Zwickau district administration , and “a true friend “By August Horch .
For almost a quarter of a century Paul Fikentscher was a commercial judge and member of various municipal bodies in Zwickau. From December 1900 to February 1908 he was a city councilor in Zwickau, after which he was a voluntary member of the city council . In May 1911 he was awarded the title of (royal Saxon) commercial councilor .
Paul Fikentscher played a decisive role in founding and relocating the Horch and Audi plants in Zwickau. He drew on 8 March 1904, the first stock option to the company A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagen Werke AG . Initially there were plans to found the plant in Leipzig .
In the years 1907 to 1908, Fikentscher secured the existence and continuation of the Horch garage in Munich, the general agency of A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke AG for Bavaria . August Horch and Paul Fikentscher with his nephew Franz Fikentscher founded AUDI Automobilwerke GmbH in 1909 with the purchase of the Robert Walther wood goods factory in Zwickau .
literature
- August Horch: I built cars. From apprentice blacksmith to auto industrialist. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1937. (2nd edition, 1944.) / as reprint: August Horch Museum Zwickau, Wilkau-Hasslau 2003.
- Zwickauer Tageblatt of February 6, 1924 (obituary by Audiwerke AG)
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- Business records and documents from A. Horch and Cie. Motorwagen Werke AG , Zwickau, 1904–1909, in the Saxon State Archives in Chemnitz
Web links
- Photo of Paul Fikentschers with his children Helene and Fritz, 1902 on www.autojuwel.de
- Audiatur et altera pars on www.autojuwel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirzel : The chemical establishment of Mr. Fikentscher in Zwickau . In: The Gazebo . Book 21, 1857, pp. 292-296 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ↑ August Horch: I built cars. From apprentice blacksmith to auto industrialist. Schützen-Verlag, Berlin 1937, p. 274. ( Scan from www.autojuwel.de ) / as reprint: August Horch Museum Zwickau, Wilkau-Hasslau 2003, p. 301, paragraph 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fikentscher, Friedrich Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fikentscher, Paulm (first name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, entrepreneur, commercial judge and city councilor in Zwickau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1924 |
| Place of death | Munich |