Kurt Scherrer

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Kurt Scherrer (born September 25, 1904 in Hanover ; † December 11, 1985 there ) was a German businessman , author and part of the Scherrer printing company that had been run in Hanover for generations .

Life

family

Kurt Scherrer was

  • married to Margret Fiehn , daughter of the lawyer and notary Hans Fiehn .
  • the great-grandson of Felix Scherrer , a master printer around 1830 in Hanover. Felix Scherrer was the great-grandfather of Ilse Pröhl , the wife of Rudolf Hess .
  • the grandson of Ernst Ferdinand Scherrer (1840–1905), printer, operations manager and technical operations director of the Jänecke & Schneemann company .
  • the son of the company's founder, Franz Scherrer (1872–1935).
  • the father of the later managing director Wolfgang Scherrer .

Career

In 1923 he passed the Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Hanover. From 1923 to 1925 a commercial apprenticeship followed in Bremen at the paper wholesaler Carl Lange Nachhaben. He then worked as an assistant in Neuruppin at the company Oehmigke & Riemschneider, the then manufacturer of the Neuruppiner picture sheet . In 1927 he briefly joined his father's company, but on May 31, 1928 he took the steamship Munich to New York City and then spent a year in the USA . There he worked in various printing and advertising companies (including Einson Freemann Corporation; Kaufmann & Strauss Co. New York), where he gained a great deal of experience which he was later able to bring to the Hanover family company .

Job reference Kaufmann & Strauss 1929

At the end of May 1929 Kurt Scherrer returned to his hometown and in the same year joined the company Druckerei Franz Scherrer founded by his father . After the death of his father in 1935, he took over the company and expanded it considerably, for example by expanding poster printing and introducing photolithography . The private contacts with the owners of the companies Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG (confectionery), B. Sprengel & Co. (chocolate) and Vorwerk & Co. (carpets) led to years of printing orders for these companies. In the 1970s, facsimile prints by Wilhelm Busch were made for the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover using the complex multi-color offset printing process based on lithographs.

In 1944 Kurt Scherrer was a member of the Supervisory Board of Roto-Werke AG in Königslutter , Europe's largest manufacturer of rotary duplicating machines .

In the last days of the Second World War , the office buildings of the Franz Scherrer printing company were completely destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , but were then rebuilt on a larger scale.

Most recently, his family business was run as Scherrer - printing, data and project management in the 4th generation.

Kurt Scherrer was chairman of the building committee from 1951, president from 1961 to 1975 and a member of the board of directors of the German tennis club Hannover (founded in 1896, the oldest tennis club in Hannover) until 1981 .

In 1962, Scherrer was the chairman of the regional flat printing division in the Association of Graphic Companies in North Rhine-Westphalia (VBGN) . In 1968, as chairman of the regional flat printing group in Hanover, Scherrer campaigned for a nationwide strengthening of the regional associations for better cooperation with the Finnish paper industry.

Fonts

  • Kurt Scherrer: To my dear parents on June 21st and August 24th, 1935 , copy of the single copy from 1935, life report of Kurt Scherrer, family tree of Kurt Scherrer, created on the occasion of the family festival on December 12th – 13th. June 2010 at the mill in Sorsum (270 pages), Berlin 2010: epubli GmbH; online through google books

literature

  • Franz Scherrer printing company, Hanover. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover, 1954 , Hanover 1954: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, p. 93
  • Franz B. Döpper: Five generations of printers in Hanover / Franz Scherrer Hanover / Scherrerdruck GmbH Hanover. In: Hanover and its old companies , ed. from the Association of German Economic Historians eV, Hamburg; 1st edition, Hamburg 1984: PRO HISTORICA Gesellschaft für Deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte mbH, ISBN 3-89146-002-3 , p. 300f.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: SCHERRER, Franz. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 318; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Scherrer - printing, data and project management GmbH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 540.
  • Gert Hagelweide: Literature for the German-language press. Biographical literature. Editors, journalists, publicists and publishers, ... 136876-149882 / Mi-Sc: Volume 13 , No. 147222-147224, De Gruyter Saur, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-095490-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: SCHERRER, Franz. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG publishing house and printing house, 2002, ISBN 9783877067062 , p. 318; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b Kurt Scherrer: To my dear parents on June 21 and August 24, 1935 , copy of the single copy from 1935, life report of Kurt Scherrer, family tree of Kurt Scherrer, created on the occasion of the family festival on December 12th – 13th. June 2010 at the mill in Sorsum (270 pages), Berlin 2010: epubli GmbH; online through google books
  3. ^ A b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Scherrer - Print, Data and Project Management GmbH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 540.
  4. ^ Franz Scherrer printing works, Hanover. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover, 1954 , Hanover 1954: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, p. 93
  5. ↑ a b c Laudation for Kurt Scherrer's 60th birthday. In: Der Druckspiegel, Volume 19, Issues 7-12, Druckspiegel-Fachzeitschriften-Verlags-GmbH, 1964, p. 82
  6. ↑ Passenger list of the steamer Munich for the trip on May 31, 1928 from Bremen to New York ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-maus-bremen.de
  7. ^ Wilhelm Busch Yearbook 1971 . Wilhelm Busch Society, 1971, p. 51
  8. ↑ Busch, Wilhelm, "Vierhehand", facsimile print, 1971; "Die Fromme Helene", facsimile of the manuscript, 1972; "Müller und Schornsteinfeger", 13th facsimile print of the Wilhelm Busch Society, 1973; "Julchen", facsimile of the manuscript, 1977; "Balduin Bählamm" facsimile print, 1980; "Max and Moritz, first & second strike" facsimile print, 1990
  9. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , Volume 49, Part 2, 1944, p. 1376
  10. ↑ G. Stalling: Hanover District , 1959, p. 136
  11. ↑ DTV Hannover: The Chronicle of the 100 Years  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 11, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dtv-hannover.de  
  12. ↑ Der Druckspiegel, Volume 18, Issues 1-6, Druckspiegel-Fachzeitschriften-Verlags-GmbH, 1963, p. 40
  13. ↑ Der Druckspiegel, Volume 23, Issues 1–4, Druckspiegel-Fachzeitschriften-Verlags-GmbH, 1968, p. XIV
personal data
SURNAME Scherrer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1985
Place of death Hanover