Jakob Sigle

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Letterhead of the shoe factories J. Sigle & Cie. AG, around 1917

Johann Jakob Sigle (born November 17, 1861 in Kornwestheim ; † July 5, 1935 in Wiesbaden ; spelling of the first name partly also "Jacob") was a German shoemaker, to whose workshop in Kornwestheim the founding of the Salamander shoe factory can be traced back.

Life

Jakob Sigle came as the son of Elisabeth Sigle, b. Hammer, and Johann Christoph Sigle to the world. His younger brother was Ernst Sigle .

Sigle initially trained as a shoemaker in his hometown and then worked in Marbach am Neckar from 1878 to 1881 . During his military service in Ulm from 1881 to 1884 he was a company cobbler. He then worked in Stuttgart, and then from 1885 on he set up his own master craftsman business in Kornwestheim; In 1889 the company "Gebrüder Sigle" was founded with his brother Christoph. From 1891, the Stuttgart sales representative Max Levi (1868–1925) took over sales.

On his trips to America, Sigle found out about shoe manufacturing there. In 1905 he and Rudolf Moos founded the “Salamander-Schuhgesellschaft mbH” based in Berlin, and in 1909 “J. Sigle und Cie ”took over the entire company, and Levi built his own branch network, which in 1909 comprised 26 stores. In 1916 the company was converted into an AG and the three plants in Kornwestheim, Türkheim (1917) and Berlin (1905) were merged as "Salamander AG" (since 1930).

Jacob Sigle and his younger brother Ernst , as the owner, chairman of the supervisory board and his deputy, together with general director Alexander Haffner, were primarily responsible for the aryanization of Salamander AG in 1933 and its direct beneficiaries.

Sigle was also involved in social policy by reducing working hours to 53 hours a week in 1905 and, from 1912, as the first shoe manufacturer in Germany to introduce one week of paid vacation for his employees.

literature

  • Martin Otto: Jacob Sigle. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 , pp. 270-273.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Bräutigam: Medium-sized entrepreneurs under National Socialism - Economic developments and social behavior in the shoe and leather industry in Baden and Württemberg. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997, p. 257
personal data
SURNAME Sigle, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigle, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Shoemaker in Kornwestheim
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kornwestheim
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1935
Place of death Wiesbaden