Hermann Petzold

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Hermann Petzold

Franz Hermann Petzold (born April 10, 1870 in Lambzig ; † February 26, 1927 ) was a German weaver and managing director of consumer cooperative companies.

Life

Hermann Petzold was born on April 10, 1870 in the village of Lambzig near Netzschkau in Vogtland. He was the second son of a large weaver family . After attending the elementary school in Plauen and the one in Netzschkau, he learned the weaving trade. He practiced this profession until 1898, when he was employed as the cashier of the Netzschkauer consumer association . Before that he had been a member of the supervisory board of this cooperative for four years. In 1900 he became the managing director of the cooperative.

In 1905 he moved to Essen in the position of the second managing director of the large citizen and workers' consumer association Eintracht . In Eintracht he became first managing director there two years later and in this role from 1909 a member of the supervisory board of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine GEG.

In 1912 he started at GEG as operations manager of the soap factory in Gröba . At the general assembly in Cologne in 1918 he was appointed managing director of the GEG from October 1st. After Adolf Gustav Seifert's death in 1920, he was a member of the committee of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations and the supervisory board of the publishing company of German consumer associations in his place as a representative of the GEG . In the international cooperative movement, he worked in the executive branch and in the committee of the international large purchasing company.

He died on February 26, 1927.

literature

  • Heinrich Kaufmann : The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919, especially page 234
  • Heinrich Kaufmann : Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations. Published on behalf of the board and committee of the Central Association of German Consumers, printed by Verlagsgesellschaft deutscher Konsumvereine mbH, Hamburg 1928, 543 pages with appendix, in particular page 322 f.
  • Wilhelm Fischer: 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954. 362 pages.
  • Erwin Hasselmann: History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, 740 pages.