Karl Schmitz-Scholl senior

Karl Friedrich Schmitz-Scholl (1868–1933)

Karl Friedrich Schmitz-Scholl , actually Karl Friedrich Schmitz (* 21st May 1868 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † 11 April 1933 ibid), a German was wholesale - businessman and shareholder of the company Tengelmann .

Live and act

Karl Friedrich Schmitz came from a merchant family in Mülheim and was the son of the company's founder Wilhelm Schmitz and his wife Louise, née Scholl. After the death of his father, he and his brother Wilhelm owned the company Wilhelm Schmitz-Scholl oHG . Together with his brother, he founded the Hamburg coffee import company Emil Tengelmann in 1893 , which opened numerous sales branches throughout Germany and in 1914 already had 560 branches. Tengelmann mainly sold coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, pastries and sweets. Following this product range, a second coffee roastery was opened in Heilbronn in 1900, followed by the Rheinische Zuckerfabrik in Düsseldorf in 1906 , and the Wissoll chocolate factory opened in Mülheim-Speldorf in 1912 ; the company is an abbreviation for the name of the company's founder, Wilhelm Schmitz- Scholl . From the 1920s onwards, more coffee roasting plants and food production plants were built, and the sales and branch network was optimized and expanded. After his death, his son of the same name, Karl Schmitz-Scholl junior, became the sole managing director of the company, with his daughter Elisabeth Haub b. Schmitz-Scholl (1899–1977), was a co-partner.

Marriage and offspring

In 1895 he married in Borbeck Elisabeth Franziska Josephine Maria nee Weynen (1873-1936). The marriage had two children:

Karl Wilhelm Erivan (1896–1969)
Amalie Luise Elisabeth (1899–1977)

literature

Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung from April 12, 1933 (obituary)
The Tengelmann Group between innovation and tradition. In: Verkehrsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (Ed.), Karl Wilhelm Tempelhoff (Red.): Mülheim an der Ruhr, yearbook 2000. (55th edition) Mülheim an der Ruhr 2000, pp. 173–177.
Thomas Urban: The founders of the Tengelmann Group. The Schmitz-Scholl family. In: Horst A. Wessel (Ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs. Pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century. Klartext, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-645-2 , pp. 219-231.

Other sources

City Archives Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 1550, No. 209 (Mülheim personalities)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Barbara Gerstein, Maria Schimke: Schmitz-Scholl, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 256 ( digitized version ).
↑ The company was named after Emil Tengelmann, the company’s authorized signatory at the time.
↑ The first branch was opened in Düsseldorf in 1893 on what was then "Communicationsstrasse"
↑ The Tengelmann Group between innovation and tradition. In: Verkehrsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (Ed.), Karl Wilhelm Tempelhoff (Red.): Mülheim an der Ruhr, Yearbook 2000. (55th edition) Mülheim an der Ruhr 2000, p. 175.
↑ The Tengelmann Group between innovation and tradition. In: Verkehrsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (Ed.), Karl Wilhelm Tempelhoff (Red.): Mülheim an der Ruhr, Yearbook 2000. (55th edition) Mülheim an der Ruhr 2000, p. 176.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmitz-Scholl, Karl senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmitz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 1933
Place of death	Mülheim an der Ruhr

[NDB-1] A ^b Barbara Gerstein, Maria Schimke: Schmitz-Scholl, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 256 ( digitized version ).

[2] The company was named after Emil Tengelmann, the company’s authorized signatory at the time.

[3] The first branch was opened in Düsseldorf in 1893 on what was then "Communicationsstrasse"

[4] The Tengelmann Group between innovation and tradition. In: Verkehrsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (Ed.), Karl Wilhelm Tempelhoff (Red.): Mülheim an der Ruhr, Yearbook 2000. (55th edition) Mülheim an der Ruhr 2000, p. 175.

[5] The Tengelmann Group between innovation and tradition. In: Verkehrsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (Ed.), Karl Wilhelm Tempelhoff (Red.): Mülheim an der Ruhr, Yearbook 2000. (55th edition) Mülheim an der Ruhr 2000, p. 176.