Hermann Schnabel

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Hermann Schnabel (born March 29, 1921 near Náchod in what was then Silesia ; † June 9, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German entrepreneur and philatelist .

Life

According to his own information, he grew up in the Giant Mountains with his grandparents, in simple circumstances, and only learned the German language when he was 12 years old. After an apprenticeship as a retail salesman, at the age of 17 he was the youngest branch manager of the Schade and Füllgrabe grocery chain in Leipzig . During the Second World War he was a radio operator at Rommel's headquarters in Africa, and later an interpreter for the Wehrmacht in Russia. He was seriously wounded as a shock troop leader in the Halbe pocket and ended up as a prisoner of war. After the war he made his way as a black marketeer for cigarettes and fled to his dream destination Hamburg in February 1949 with his first wife and son .

There he bought the company name of the import and export company Karl O. Helm, founded in 1900 by the businessman Karl Otto Helm . Schnabel expanded this quickly by specializing in the chemical trade. He was fluent in Czech as it was his mother tongue. He held a 50 percent stake in Deutsche Chemapol GmbH until 1992 and a 50 percent joint venture with Chemapol in Prague, through which all of the chemical foreign trade in what was then Czechoslovakia was handled. As managing director and majority shareholder of HELM AG , Schnabel was one of the richest Germans in 2001 with private assets of DM 3 billion. Schnabel died in Hamburg in 2010. HELM AG was continued from 1984 to 2012 by his son, Dieter Schnabel .

family

The grave of the entrepreneur Hermann Schnabel in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Hermann Schnabel was married twice and had two sons and a daughter from his first marriage. His second wife, Else Frieda Schnabel, was employed by his company Karl O. Helm in Hamburg from 1956 to 1958. He lived in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel . He found his final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Others

From 1983 to 2003 he was Honorary Consul General of Pakistan . With his second wife he founded the Hermann and Else Schnabel Foundation . His wife Else Frieda Schnabel is still on the board of this foundation today and inherited his entire fortune after his death. Hermann Schnabel was close to the CDU, for which he donated large sums of money.

He owned one of the world's largest stamp collections with 850,000 motifs in 1200 albums, including a blue Mauritius .

Fonts

  • Hermann Schnabel The money is on the street - you just have to bend down! Memories . Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2009.

Prizes and awards (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Schnabel: The money is in the street - you just have to bend down! Memories' page 13
  2. ↑ Hermann Schnabel: The money is in the street - you just have to bend down! Memories' page 82
  3. ↑ Schnabel: Withdrawal from the CSFR , Hamburger Abendblatt No. 234 of October 7, 1992, p. 37 (fee required)
  4. ↑ The richest Germans: In the beginning there was block chocolate. In: Spiegel Online . August 19, 2001, accessed November 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ http://www.parteispenden.unklarheiten.de/?seite=datenbank_show_k&db_id=46
  6. ^ Stephan Maaß: Hamburg billionaire Hermann Schnabel died . In: The world . June 14, 2010 ( welt.de ).
  7. ^ Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt
  8. ↑ List of honorary senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  9. ↑ Press release (PDF; 72 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2010
Place of death Hamburg