Helmut Brüchner

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Helmut Brüchner (born March 22, 1921 in Dresden ; † 2007 in Regensburg ) was a German furniture entrepreneur and founder of Möbel-Brüchner Helmut Brüchner GmbH & Co. KG . After the Second World War, he was one of the economic pioneers in Regensburg and later acquired the reputation of the "East Bavarian furniture king" with his furniture company.

Life

Brüchner was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and in 1940 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets at the end of the war. In 1945 he was released from this near Eger and initially lived in Weiden idOpf. with a war comrade.

Möbel-Brüchner Helmut Brüchner GmbH & Co. KG

From Weiden he went penniless to Regensburg and started a small carpenter's workshop in Hainsacker .

Gradually, a total of 16 furniture stores were built in several Bavarian cities, including Straubing , Hof / Saale and Ingolstadt . In total, the company, whose head office was located on the Regensburg Danube Market, grew to 400 employees in 16 furniture stores. He abandoned his plan to build a commercial building on the Danube market after thinking about building a town hall there and sold his entire company in 1989.

In 1995 the headquarters of his former furniture company were relocated from Regensburg to Bayreuth . The area on the Donaumarkt is known today as the “Brüchner Areal”. In the former Regensburg furniture store on Donaumarkt there was a flea market until the end of 2011. It was demolished in 2012; The Museum of Bavarian History was opened there in 2018 .

Private

From his marriage to his wife, who died in 1992, they had two daughters.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c pioneer of the economy. Obituary. Mittelbayerische Zeitung , May 5, 2007.
  2. ↑ Möbel Brüchner Helmut Brüchner GmbH & Co. KG at moneyhouse.de
  3. ↑ Heinz Alfred Stöckel: Brüchner, Donaumarkt and no end in sight…. regensburg-digital, February 28, 2008.
  4. ↑ Rainer Wendl: Brüchner block. Josef Abel was the last to turn off the light. Weekly, December 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ Claudia Böken: Space for the museum: business is being torn down. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, April 13, 2012.
  6. ↑ Matthäus-Runtinger-Medal. City of Regensburg; accessed on July 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Brüchner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German furniture entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2007
Place of death regensburg