Julius Pfungst
Julius Pfungst (born October 15, 1834 in Darmstadt , † October 31, 1899 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German entrepreneur.
family
He came from a long- established Jewish family in Hessen-Darmstadt whose family name is probably derived from Pfungstadt . His father was Moritz Lob Pfungst (1799–1855), his mother was Susette Pfungst, née Stein.
On June 26, 1861, Julius Pfungst married Rosette Bertha Oppenheim (born April 21, 1839 - 1922), the daughter of Noë Oppenheim (born January 17, 1805) and Betty Löwenik, née Levi (born January 10, 1815). With her he had four children, his first-born daughter, Marie Eleonore (1862-1943), his son Arthur Joseph (1864-1912), his second son Moritz Julius (* October 11, 1866; † 1894) and his second daughter Hedwig Auguste (* January 24, 1870).
Act
Julius Pfungst came to Frankfurt am Main in 1859, at the age of 25, with the acquisition of citizenship.
There he was initially active as a dealer in fur and tobacco products . The city of Frankfurt am Main had a long tradition as an important trading center, in which furs played a large part. When Pfungst gained a foothold in this branch, however, Leipzig was the center of the tobacco and furrier trade.
The basis for founding his later company was an exclusive contract that Julius Pfungst concluded with the Société du Véritable Emeri de Naxie based in Syra . This agreement was only him on the Greek right, Cyclades -Insel Naxos mined real Emery to market them worldwide. For this purpose, Julius Pfungst founded Julius Pfungst, the company of the real Naxos-Schmirgels, Naxos-Schmirgel-Dampfwerk, Frankfurt am Main, in 1871 , later renamed Naxos-Union Schleifmittel- und Schleifmaschinen-Fabrik . His marketing rights for emery passed to his new company on October 15, 1871.
With this business idea, Julius Pfungst became one of the first manufacturers of grinding machines from around 1880 , which were of great importance in the processing industry due to increasing industrialization .
On the company's 25th anniversary in 1896, Julius Pfungst laid the foundation for a pension scheme for his workers and employees with 100,000 Reichsmarks.
He developed the company into a successful company that employed around 70 people around 1880 and around 700 at the time of his death. Together with his wife, he had developed the idea of transferring the income from his company to a non-profit foundation committed to popular education. However, this foundation was no longer established during his lifetime.
After his death in 1899, his son Arthur took over the company. After his untimely death in 1912, the two women, Rosetta Bertha and Marie Eleonore, finally took over the company.
literature
- Volker Rödel: Factory architecture in Frankfurt am Main 1774–1924. Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt 1985, ISBN 3-7973-0435-8
- Mile Braach : Marie Eleonore Pfungst: 1862–1943. 3. Edition. Fritz Bauer Institute , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-932883-15-2
- Pfungst, Julius. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 908 No. 1904, p. 23 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Julius Pfungst on: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
- ↑ Naxos history at: fundament-eg.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
- ↑ Dr. Arthur Pfungst Foundation at: frankfurter-stiftungen.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
- ↑ Naxos Union at: lilit.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
- ^ Marie Pfungst (1862-1943) on: frankfurterfrauenzimmer.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
- ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors. Volume 17: Meid – Phil. P. 462.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfungst, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1899 |
| Place of death | Königstein im Taunus |