Georg Hiller (entrepreneur, 1908)

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Georg Hiller (also: Geo Hiller ; * 1908 ; † 1985 ) was a German entrepreneur and pioneer of vegetarianism .

Life

Georg Hiller was born at the time of the German Empire in 1908 as the son of Georg Hiller senior , a pioneer of the reform movement , writer, founder of the mail order company and tea producer Rehburg Diet & Tea Factory in Bad Rehburg and co-founder of the Natura-Werk Gebr. Hiller with headquarters in Hanover .

After the Second World War , Geo Hiller opened what would later be the longest continuous vegetarian restaurant in Germany, Restaurant Hiller at Blumenstrasse 3 in Hanover. At around the same time he took over the chairmanship of the Vegetarian Union of Germany (VUD) and initiated the periodical Der Vegetarian , which was later published by the Vegetarian Association Germany, Bund für Lebensernationale (VEBU) . Journal for ethical lifestyle, vegetarianism and life reform .

After the death of his father, Geo Hiller also continued his father's company in Bad Rehburg from 1960. In 1963 he took his son Hans Hiller into the management of the then Rehburger Diet & Tea Factory, Geo Hiller & Sohn , whose name was retained until Geo Hiller's death in 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: History - Mail order company Hiller since 1898 on the hillerstee.de page [ undated ], last accessed on September 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Natura work. Hiller Brothers. 1901-1976. Yesterday's knowledge. Knowledge of today. Tomorrow's task . Text and design in collaboration with H. Hünerhoff u. O. Körner, ed. from Natura plant. Gebr. Hiller GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover: Scherrerdruck, [1976], [without page numbers]
  3. ^ Wolfgang R. Krabbe : Society change through life reform. Structural features of a social reform movement in Germany during the industrialization period (= studies on the change in society and education in the nineteenth century , volume 9), at the same time dissertation in 1972 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Münster (Westphalia), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1974, ISBN 978- 3-525-31813-3 and ISBN 3-525-31813-8 , p. 124; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Compare the letterhead of the Hiller brothers, Natura-Werk in Bregenz from around 1913
  5. ↑ Antje Weibels (Red.): Vegetarian variety. The Hiller restaurant in Hanover , in this: Boulevard Airport. The magazine from Hannover Airport , publisher: Hannover Airport, corporate communication, marketing, issue 01/18, Hannover, 2018, pp. 56–59
  6. ↑ a b Compare the information in the journal database
personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiller Geo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, restaurateur and vegetarian functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
DATE OF DEATH 1985