Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer

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Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer (born February 17, 1845 in Heilbronn , † May 23, 1896 in Tübingen ) was a German entrepreneur. He founded a log business in Heilbronn, from which today's Pfleiderer company grew.

Life

Pfleiderer had power of attorney at the Heilbronn wood dealer August Vowinckel & Cie. which was initially just a subsidiary of a Düsseldorf company. In 1882 the company was restructured and received an entry in the commercial register in Heilbronn. The managing directors were Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer and Jacob Vowinckel. In 1894 August Vowinckel & Cie. and Pfleiderer continued to run the company under his own name. He granted the long-term employee Friedrich Eberle power of attorney. He died unexpectedly in Tübingen in 1896.

family

Pfleiderer married Elisabeth Michels (1852–1909), the daughter of the local pastor Hermann Georg Michels , on April 19, 1876 in Odenkirchen . The marriage produced six sons. The eldest son Adolf Pfleiderer (1877–1957) joined the company while his father was still alive. After the early death of his father, he continued it together with the third oldest son Paul Otto Pfleiderer (1880–1960). The other sons were Hans Pfleiderer (1878-1944), court director in Heilbronn, Ernst Pfleiderer (1882-1946), a mechanical engineer, Georg Pfleiderer (1892-1973), who as an architect instrumental in building the Pfleiderer plant in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate involved was, and Theodor Pfleiderer (1895–1917), who had a fatal accident as a flight instructor in Schleissheim during the First World War .

Appreciation

The family grave in which Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer, his wife Elisabeth and the youngest son Theodor are buried has been preserved in Heilbronn's main cemetery . The son Hans Pfleiderer rests with his family in another preserved family grave.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Michelsstraße in Mönchengladbach is named after Hermann Georg Michels.

literature

  • Norbert Jung: Square III, grave row XIII, 28–30. A contribution to the Heilbronn entrepreneur family Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer , Heilbronn 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1896
Place of death Tübingen