Guido Ziersch

Guido Ziersch (born June 28, 1903 in Barmen ; † August 18, 1968 in Neuweilnau ) was a German industrialist in the textile industry .

Life

Guido Ziersch was born as the son of the factory owner and President of the Wuppertal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Rudolf Ziersch , and his wife Clara, née. Brüninghaus born. After graduating from high school in Barmen (1922), he studied chemistry in Munich , where he became a member of the Corps Franconia . He later moved to the University of Freiburg and passed the association examination there. Further studies took him to the Technical University of Dresden . After the diploma examination in Dresden (December 1927) and two further semesters at the University of Basel , he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD. He completed his training with practical work in a colliery and a bank as well as attending the textile engineering school. A longer study trip took him to the United States before he joined his father's piece dyeing and finishing company Otto Budde & Co in Wuppertal-Barmen (since 1950 Wuppertaler Textilveredelung Rudolf Ziersch Söhne KG ) in April 1930 . Together with his brother Ferdinand Ziersch, Guido Ziersch led the company for almost four decades. After the bomb-damaged factory was rebuilt after the Second World War, he developed textile finishing into an important branch of textile processing. His laboratories pioneered the field of textile chemistry research.

Ziersch himself was also involved on an international level, including in the Association Internationale de la Teinture Textile , which he was instrumental in founding. He was chairman of the total textiles research board and member of the supervisory board of the research company Denkendorf, president and from 1959 honorary president of the General Association of the German Textile Finishing Industry in Frankfurt am Main, vice-president of the Wuppertal Chamber of Industry and Commerce (from 1945) and chairman (from 1964 honorary chairman) of the Bergisch- Märkischen Verkehrsverband e. V., of which he was one of the founders after the Second World War. He held supervisory board mandates at Casella Farbwerke Mainkur AG (Frankfurt am Main) and Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG, among others .

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Ziersch was also active in local politics. He was a member of the CDU Wuppertal, where he was district chairman from 1949 to 1964 and from 1961 a member of the city council of Wuppertal.

Awards

• Dr. rer. net. hc from the Technical University of Stuttgart (1963)

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Ziersch's estate is in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, Rhineland Department, in Duisburg (Ziersch, Guido, RWN 0116)

literature

• The Munich Francs as at the end of the winter semester 1971/72 . [Munich 1972], pp. 407f. (No. 918)