John P. Bauer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Peter Bauer (originally: Hans Peter Bauernfreund , chicken farmer ) (born November 14, 1925 in Fürth , † January 6, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale / USA) was a former German-American businessman.

family

His parents, August Bauernfreund and Agnes, geb. Rosenfeld, owned the Süddeutsche Lebensmittelwerke . August's sister Clothilde was married to Bernhard Lehrburger († May 13, 1946 in NYC), who ran a postcard publishing company on Gostenhofer Zufuhrstrasse. His cousin Karl Lehrburger ( Korle ) worked in his father's business, was a member of the Black Heap and, after its dissolution in 1928, joined the KPD , where he rose to the position of local leader. He took courier trips in Chevrolet and Ford cars and gave Jakob Boulanger shelter. Lehrburger was arrested at the beginning of March 1933 and taken to Dachau concentration camp on April 13th together with Comrade Erich Gans († June 1934) , where Hans Steinbrenner shot him in the forehead on May 25th "in self-defense". In the same year the Bauernfreund family emigrated to France. In December 1933 their stock corporation was expropriated and sold to Stefan Winter and Wolfgang Brügel the following month. To cover the Reich flight tax of around 100,000 RM, the tax office applied for the foreclosure sale of a piece of property in May 1939. In 1940 the family emigrated to the USA.

Life

In 1941, John P. Bauer began his studies in New York and served in the US Army from 1942 to 1944 . In 1946 he received his B.Sc. and B.Econ at New York University. When his father demanded the return of his confiscated property that year, an old friend Ludwig Erhard was able to help him.

John then works as Vice President of the BNS boarding school. Sales Corp. New York . In 1949 he married Marion, the daughter of Jacques Rosenstein , with whom he had two sons. In 1965 he became the owner and president of the Bauer Internat. Corp. New York , with subsidiaries in Canada, Mexico and Frankfurt ( Bauer International (Europa) GmbH and Transcontinental Packing (Europa) GmbH ). He was granted patents in the field of proteins. In 1967 he made Erhard a member of the supervisory board of his Frankfurt company. After the collapse of a cheese business with the GDR, however, the business relationship deteriorated over the next two years.

After a tax claim from 1968, the auditors of the Frankfurt tax office filed for bankruptcy. Beginning in December 1968, Bauer acquired Alan Wood Steel shares for $ 2.3 million . In the same year Erhard switched to the supervisory board of Argenta Internationale Anlagegesellschaft mbH . A lady wired a "400-word telegram" to the USA, with which Erhard expressed great interest in acquiring this block of shares. After Interpol caught him, the police locked him up and escaped to Switzerland by taxi.

In 1974 he settled in Fort Lauderdale , where he founded Basic Food International five years later with a team of investors . In 1992 he was awarded the International Trader of the Year Award by the World Trade Council . In 2019, he died of a stroke in Fort Lauderdale.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Politics, economics, public life ; P. 37
  2. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alcalz/aufbau/1946/1946pdf/1946a20s35.pdf ( Memento from November 26, 2013 on WebCite )
  3. ↑ Fatherland writings ; P. 123
  4. ↑ http://www.hdbg.de/parlament/content/persDetail.php?id=229
  5. ↑ Siegfried Imholz: ".. The emigration of Siegfried Israel Goldmann is therefore no longer possible ..."
  6. ↑ ERHARD: Old friends . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 1969 ( online - July 28, 1969 ).
  7. ↑ AFFAIRS: Taxi to Basel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1971 ( online - May 10, 1971 ).
  8. ↑ Fred Hunter's Funeral Home - accessed online June 7, 2020 | 4 p.m. - available online
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, John P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, John Peter; Farmer friend, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth