Josef Suwelack (entrepreneur)

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Josef Suwelack (born January 4, 1850 in Greven , Westphalia; † March 9, 1929 in Billerbeck ) was a German entrepreneur and company founder in the early days . He is the father of the fighter pilot Josef Suwelack . Josef-Suwelack-Straße in Billerbeck was named after him.

Vita

Josef Suwelack was born as the third of four children on January 4, 1850 on the Suwelack farm in Greven-Pentrup. The older brother Hermann Bernhard Suwelack was heir to the court. After elementary school and agricultural training, he became the manager of various estates, most recently at the Twickel estate in Havixbeck. In 1884 he visited Wilhelm Fleischmann 's first German dairy-chemical research station and higher dairy in Raden near Lalendorf ( Mecklenburg ), where he acquired the necessary dairy-related expertise. In September 1884 he founded the Billerbeck steam dairy as a public company. On May 24, 1886, he married Katharina Brockmann, the daughter of the founder of the Billerbecker Sparkasse. In Billerbeck he first lived with his family on Beerlager Strasse. After the new dairy was built on Münsterstrasse in 1899, the director's house was built around a hundred meters away. In addition to the modern dairy, he founded numerous ancillary businesses: dry milk plants, a mill, etc. In 1910 he founded the nutrient factory GmbH. On September 13, 1915, his son, the fighter pilot Josef Suwelack, fell on the Western Front. After the nutritional factory went bankrupt in 1924, he and his son Richard Suwelack (1891–1968) retired from management. His son Otto Suwelack (1901–1962) founded the permanent milk factory Dr. Otto Suwelack, who worked in the Dr. Otto Suwelack Nachf. GmbH & Co KG will continue to exist. The company, which is still the largest employer in Billerbeck with 440 employees, goes back to the founding initiative of Josef Suwelack. Suwelack died in Billerbeck in 1929. The access road to the company premises was named after him.

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literature

  • Katja Rösler: The collective dairy in Billerbeck in the context of small-town development and agricultural modernization around 1900, Hamburg 2012, was awarded the Jodocus-Hermann-Nünning-Prize 2013 in Vreden on January 8, 2014 .
  • Suwelack milestones, From the history of an entrepreneurial family, Billerbeck 2010
personal data
SURNAME Suwelack, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and company founder in the early days
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Greven , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1929
Place of death Billerbeck