Heinrich Schneider (Manager)
Heinrich Schneider (* 1852 in Erfurt ; † 1934 ) was a German manager.
After his apprenticeship, which he began in 1866, he became a specialist editor of the Deutsche Schuhmacher-Zeitung in Berlin in 1873 and published various specialist magazines. Since 1876 he worked in the USA. In 1878 he went to St. Petersburg, where he co-founded the first shoe factory in Russia.
He was first technical manager, then director of what was then the largest shoe factory in Europe, Skorochod in St. Petersburg .
Before the First World War, Schneider was an Imperial Russian Councilor of Commerce and a multimillionaire. In 1914, the year the war broke out, Schneider returned to Erfurt to build a smaller shoe factory there. He had eight children.
His grandson is the journalist Wolf Schneider .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schneider, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1934 |