Georg Pfleiderer

Georg Pfleiderer (born May 10, 1892 in Heilbronn , † December 14, 1973 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ) was a German architect. He came from the Pfleiderer family , for whom he planned the plant in Neumarkt, which he headed as operations manager from 1927 and which was the largest German woodworking plant in 1960.

Life

Pfleiderer was born as the son of the timber merchant Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer (1845–1896). His father founded the GA Pfleiderer Langholzhandlung in Heilbronn in 1894 , which after his early death was continued by Georg's older brothers Adolf Pfleiderer (1877–1957) and Paul Otto Pfleiderer (1880–1960).

Georg Pfleiderer attended grammar school and secondary school in Heilbronn and was a one-year volunteer with the 4th Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 65 in 1910/11. He then studied architecture and engineering in Munich. During the First World War he was drafted into the 7th Field Artillery Regiment and was initially in the field on the Western Front. At the end of 1914, however, at his request, he was posted to Schleissheim , where he completed his pilot's test and was then a pilot in the Bavarian Field Aviation Department No. 9. In a crash in January 1916, he sustained an injury to his spine. After a bombing flight to Epinal in May 1916, he was awarded the 4th Class Military Merit. From spring 1917 he was a flight instructor in Schleissheim, together with his younger brother Theodor (1895-1917), who died in an accident on March 27, 1917. On May 22nd, Georg Pfleiderer was awarded the Prussian Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. When he fell from his bicycle in August 1917, he suffered a protracted injury to his testicles, and he no longer had the nerve strength required for airplanes, so that he was only assigned to reserve departments for a long time. He asked several times to be transferred to the field troops, but they were always refused. Instead, he returned to various aviation units, where he explored emergency landing sites until the end of the war, most recently as a first lieutenant , and worked as a flight director of the aviation observation school. After the First World War, Pfleiderer stayed in Bavaria. In 1917/18 he was registered in Fürth, and in 1919 he moved to Munich.

In the meantime, his brothers were planning to expand their company and acquired a former parade ground in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate as well as a neighboring, older sawmill and other properties. Georg Pfleiderer, now a graduate engineer, bought the land and real estate. He then planned and built the Pfleiderer plant there. From 1922 to 1927 he had his own architecture office in Munich, although he moved to Neumarkt in 1925, where he took over the management of the plant in 1927, which became the company's headquarters in 1931. He held the management until 1952.

In Neumarkt, Pfleiderer also emerged as a pioneer of skiing and gave various lectures about his time as a World War II pilot.

family

He had been married to Thekla Loichinger (1904–1995) since 1925. The children Wolfgang, Barbara and Peter came from the marriage.

literature

• Norbert Jung: Georg Pfleiderer - An addition to the history of a Heilbronn entrepreneurial family , Heilbronn 2011
• Norbert Jung: Square III, grave row XIII, 28–30. A contribution to the Heilbronn entrepreneur family Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer , Heilbronn 2010.

Web links

• Company history of Pfleiderer AG