Gustav Winkler (textile manufacturer)

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Gustav Winkler (born May 11, 1867 in Liegnitz , Province of Silesia , † April 26, 1954 in Berlin ) was a German textile manufacturer and patron , especially of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

Life

Winkler's father was a farmer. He attended school in Liegnitz and then completed an apprenticeship in his uncle's textile business. In 1909 he founded his first handkerchief factory, Gustav Winkler Textilwerke , and by 1939 he expanded the business to a total of 13 factories, all of which were located in what was then Silesia , including in Lauban . The textile works developed into the largest company in Lauban; at the same time, 95% of all German handkerchiefs were produced in Lauban before the Second World War.

Winkler was a sponsor of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG): from 1929 until his death he was a "supporting member", first of the KWG, and later of the successor institution, the Max Planck Society . From 1935 to 1951 he was senator of the KWG and from 1937 to 1951 2nd secretary of the KWG. He was also a member of various boards of trustees of institutes of the KWG and also a member of the board of directors of the Harnack House in Berlin-Dahlem.

The companies in Silesia were lost after the Second World War. Winkler acquired the Lauffenmühle in Tiengen near Waldshut as early as 1935 . After 1945, a total of six handkerchief factories were built in southern and western Germany, including Gustav Winkler KG Berlin, the handkerchief factory in Bielefeld-Aalen and the mechanical handkerchief weaving mill in Blumberg / Baden.

Streets in Bielefeld and Unterlauchringen are named after Gustav Winkler. He was married and had two sons, the son Helmut Winkler took over the business of the Winkler Group.

Awards

literature

  • Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : The Harnack Medal of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1924-2004 , series of publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, volume 19, archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A short curriculum vitae can be found in Henning / Kazemi, Die Harnack-Medaille, p. 156, see literature
  2. ↑ see page about Winkler as a textile manufacturer after the Second World War at the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org
  3. ↑ Information on the years according to Henning / Kazemi.
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile manufacturer and patron, especially of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1954
Place of death Berlin