Heinz Neumüller
Heinz Neumüller (born May 1, 1920 in Oldenburg ; † November 22, 1998 in Oldenburg) was a German entrepreneur and founder of CeWe Color AG & Co. OHG.
Life
Heinz Neumüller had a formative time as a naval officer. He was a passionate photographer. In 1949 he married the daughter of Carl Wöltje, Sigrid Marie Wöltje, owner of the specialist shop for photography in Wöltje . Neumüller joined his in-laws in Oldenburg on his 28th birthday. In 1961 he founded CeWe Color companies in the Carl Wöltje parent company in Oldenburg . In honor of his father-in-law, he added the initials "CW" to the company name.
In 1971 his company became active abroad for the first time and opened up the Dutch market. In 1973 he merged the company with Vereinigte Color in Hamburg and Bremen. Since then, the company name has been United CEWE COLOR companies. In the course of the following years, Heinz Neumüller took over other laboratory operations in Germany and abroad and became one of the market leaders for photofinishing in Germany in the course of the transition from black and white to color photography in the 1970s. From 1961 to 1992 he acted as managing director. He then moved to the supervisory board, where he remained chairman until shortly before his death in 1998.
Heinz Neumüller Foundation
In 1995 he founded the Heinz Neumüller Foundation, which supports doctoral projects by young scientists at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in the fields of computer science as well as economics, law and natural sciences. It has a foundation capital of 550,000 euros.
Awards
- 1979: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1986: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1996: Honorary senator of the University of Oldenburg
- 1998: Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Press release from the University of Oldenburg , accessed on March 24, 2019
- ↑ Johannes Blome-Drees and Reiner Rang: The activities of financial investors in Germany using the example of Cewe Color AG , documentation on the basis of guided interviews with employee representatives of Cewe Color at the end of 2007 on behalf of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf 2009, p. 6 ( Digitized as PDF ), accessed on March 24, 2019
- ↑ Presentation on the website Universität Oldenburg.de , accessed on March 23, 2019
- ↑ [1] , accessed on July 16, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neumüller, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1998 |
| Place of death | Oldenburg |