Johann Alexander Wisniewsky
Johann Alexander Wisniewsky (born May 23, 1929 in Langenbielau , Reichenbach district ; † February 3, 2012 in Lingen (Ems) ) was a German entrepreneur .
Career
Wisniewsky came from Lower Silesia and came to Lingen im Emsland in 1946 as a displaced person . From the drugstore “Zum Goldenen Becher” founded in 1958 , in which he developed customer films and pictures in his own darkroom, he built up the large industrial photo laboratory “colibri”, which was one of the leading companies in this branch in the 1980s. With the advent of digital photography and because he had not found a successor in his own family, he sold the company with its three locations (Colibri Lingen; Colorfix Dortmund and iZett Regensburg) to the Kodak company in Stuttgart in 1991 .
In 1995 he founded the "Johann Alexander Wisniewsky Foundation" with a foundation capital of three million DM. The purpose of the foundation is to promote musical and cultural education, research into recent Emsland history and support the concept of hospice in Emsland. The foundation provided, among other things, start-up financing for the hospice associations in Emsland. In addition, it supports the training and further education of the hospice employees. Since its inception, the Wisniewsky Foundation has distributed over one million euros in funding.
Honors
- 2002: Emsland Medal
- 2005: Federal Cross of Merit
- 2005: Lower Saxony Order of Merit on ribbon
Web links
- Lingen entrepreneur Alexander Wisniewsky died at the age of 82 . In: Lingener Tagespost , February 9, 2012
- Website of the Johann Alexander Wisniewsky Foundation
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wisniewsky, Johann Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenbielau , Reichenbach district (Eulengebirge) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 2012 |
| Place of death | Lingen (Ems) |