Leo Gottstein

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Leo Gottstein

Leo Gottstein (born May 26, 1850 in Breslau , † January 31, 1922 in Weimar ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Leo Gottstein came from a Jewish merchant family. He studied comparative anatomy, later chemistry, and received his doctorate in Strasbourg . He made the decision to found a pulp mill and collected a share capital of 360,000 marks from investors. With this he bought the " Feldmühle " property , an old former monastery mill of the Grüssau monastery near Liebau am Bober . In 1886 the factory with two cookers could be put into operation. In 1891 a second pulp mill was founded in Cosel . In 1895 both companies started producing paper. The main administration was in Wroclaw . From 1906 the company took a share in the Pomeranian Zellstoff-Fabrik AG in Cavelwisch near Stettin ; In 1910 it was completely taken over. A year later the new plant in Scholwin near Stettin was put into operation. From 1919 Leo Gottstein joined the supervisory board and his son Hans (1887–1965) took over the management of the company.

Leo Gottstein was married to a daughter of Moritz Behrend, the owner of the paper mill in Varzin founded in 1873 .

Leo's brother Adolf (1857–1941) headed the Prussian health service from 1919 to 1924. The physicist Klaus Gottstein and the physician Ulrich Gottstein are grandsons of Leo.

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personal data
SURNAME Gottstein, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1922
Place of death Weimar