Fritz Züchner

Fritz Züchner (born May 23, 1898 in Seesen ; † August 3, 1977 there ) was a German sheet metal manufacturer.

Life

Fritz Züchner jun. was born in Seesen in the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1898 as the son of the can manufacturer Fritz Züchner senior. (1870–1950) born. Its company went back to the canning factory Heinrich Sieburg & Rudolf Züchner founded by Rudolf Züchner (1846–1890) together with Heinrich Sieburg , which also produced tin goods. Fritz Züchner jun. completed a craft apprenticeship, attended the technical college for sheet metal processing in Aue and the Hamburg commercial academy . He then worked in several sheet metal factories and in 1923 joined the family business as operations manager, which had employed 1,500 people at the time of the First World War . The company's decline occurred during inflation . Züchner subsequently built up a new company for the production of tin cans, which he continuously expanded and modernized. He eventually created the largest family-owned sheet metal packaging factory in Europe. In addition to the headquarters in Seesen, there were branch plants in Koblenz, Cologne, Barmstedt and Düsseldorf, as well as distribution centers in Berlin and numerous major cities in the Federal Republic.

Züchner also campaigned for public issues. After the end of the Second World War, he provided help with the employment and accommodation of refugees and supported the German Red Cross . He was a member of the plenary assembly of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce , a member of the board of the Fachverband Feinblechpackungen and a member of the transport committee of the Federation of German Industries . In 1963 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class . Züchner died in Seesen in August 1977 at the age of 79. A Fritz-Züchner-Strasse commemorates him in Seesen and Barmstedt .

literature

• Rosemarie Henning: Züchner, Fritz. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 675 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Claudia Märtl (ed.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present , Vol. 3: Modern times . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 285.