Georg Grammer
Georg Grammer (born May 15, 1931 in Amberg ; † May 15, 2005 there ) was a German entrepreneur .
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In 1954, Georg Grammer took over the saddlery founded in 1880 by his grandfather Willibald Grammer. In the same year, Grammer founded a "company for the manufacture of seat cushions". Grammer AG was founded in 1989 and went public in 1996. Georg Grammer gave up the chairmanship of the AG in 1998 and switched to the supervisory board , of which he served as chairman until 2000 and as deputy chairman until his death.
One of Georg Grammer's particular merits was the introduction of polyurethane integral foam, invented two years earlier by his company chemist Rainer Tilch (born 1948 in Amberg, Bavaria) into the industrial production of upholstery parts for vehicle seats and office chairs in 1976. The new method revolutionized the labor-intensive and laborious manufacture of these parts from scratch. It enabled fast and inexpensive mass production with consistently high quality and spread throughout the world in the following years.
In 1986 the government of the Free State of Bavaria awarded Georg Grammer the State Medal for special services to the Bavarian economy.
Honors
- Cross of Merit, First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1980)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1998)
- State Medal for Special Services to the Bavarian Economy (1986)
- Honorary citizen of the East Bavarian Technical University of Amberg-Weiden
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grammer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | On the mountain |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | On the mountain |