Helmut Niedermeyer

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Helmut Niedermeyer (born February 28, 1926 in Opava , Czechoslovakia ; † February 3, 2014 in Tenerife , Spain ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of the electronics trading group Niedermeyer named after him .

Life

Helmut Niedermeyer was born in Moravia-Silesia in 1926. His mother, who came from Vienna , died shortly after giving birth. His father, a successful cafeteria man, was interned in a concentration camp for seven years for "political reasons" during the Nazi era . At the age of 17, Niedermeyer was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was imprisoned by the Soviets for five years, which he spent in Siberia . Of 83 camp inmates suffering from paratyphoid fever, he was one of three survivors. Due to the expulsion from the Sudetenland in the course of the implementation of the Beneš decrees , Niedermeyer came to Vienna after returning from captivity.

An employment at the Viennese photo house Herlango from 1949 brought Niedermeyer's commercial talent to light. In 1957 he founded his own company, Niedermeyer AG, as an X-ray, photo and film item business in Vienna's Mariahilfer Strasse . Niedermeyer opened further branches in the following years. Through takeovers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he developed the Niedermeyer Group as an electronics trading company . In 1997, Niedermeyer retired from the company's supervisory board. In 1999 his son Christian sold the electric chain of the mobile operator max.mobil. After several changes of ownership, the company went bankrupt in 2013 . At the beginning of February 2014, Niedermeyer died at the age of 87 of a heart attack on the Spanish island of Tenerife .

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SURNAME Niedermeyer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2014
Place of death Tenerife