Lorenz Vollmuth

Lorenz Rudolf Vollmuth (born December 22, 1866 in the station building of the Fürth intersection , today Muggenhof , † February 15, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur.

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Vollmut was the son of the Franconian railroad man Georg Vollmuth (1833) and his wife Christine Bergmann (1834–1874). In his youth he learned the trade before moving to Landshut around 1891 , where he found a job as an accountant at Moosmühle, one of the largest companies of its kind in southern Germany.

After the death of his boss Ferdinand Moos, the owner of the Moosmühle, Vollmuth took over the management of the company, which at the time was owned by Moos' widow Elise Moos, born Hofmann (1856–1946). On September 10, 1894 Vollmuth married the widow. With a capital contribution of 100,000 gold marks - which he should have received through a bank loan - he became a co-owner ("art mill owner") of Moosmühle, which initially as a general partnership under the name of F. Moos und Comp. was operated.

From Vollmuth's marriage, the daughters Elisabeth Anna Maria (called Else) (* October 2, 1896), Bertha (* September 27, 1898) and Anna Maria (* January 7, 1900) and the son Rudolf Simon (* 1895) emerged.

In the spring of 1895, Moosmühle merged with J. Krämerschen Kunstmühle, owned by the Adolf Böhm bank, to form the United Art Mills AG . The new company, in which the Kunstmühle Rosenheim, the Bayerische Vereinsbank and Fritz Volz were also involved, had a share capital of 800,000 Reichsmarks . Vollmuth was appointed to the board of the new company, which within a short time developed into the largest milling company in Bavaria on the right bank of the Rhine.

On September 1, 1900, Vollmuth resigned from his post: Having made considerable wealth through the payment of his share in the company, which had grown considerably, he moved with his family to Munich and settled in Deggendorf in 1902 , where he was in the outskirts of Schaching under the Name "L. & E. Vollmuth ”founded a wood goods factory in which toboggan sleds, handcarts, box vans, children's furniture, field chairs and fruit processing equipment were manufactured.

The new company also proved to be extremely profitable: On November 19, 1921, the company was converted into a "Lorenz Vollmuth & Co Holzwarenfabrik GmbH". The partners were Vollmuth and his wife with 100,000 marks each and the merchant Rudolf Vogl with a capital contribution of 200,000 marks. Vollmuth continued to operate as the factory owner and his son Rudolf as director. At that time, the company's range expanded to include office furniture, toilet seats, triumph chairs, and kitchen and garden furniture. His private wealth was reflected in his villa in Schaching, which had a floor area of ​​150 square meters and a garden of 10,000 square meters.

On April 17, 1924 Vollmuth received the title of Kommerzienrat from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, while he had already received honorary citizenship of the city of Deggendorf in 1923.

At the instigation of his son-in-law Gregor Strasser - who married Vollmuth's eldest daughter Elisabeth Anna Maria in 1920 - Vollmuth joined the NSDAP on August 8, 1925 (membership number 20.009). His son Rudolf made a career as an adjutant to the Reich organizational leadership in the party in which the son-in-law soon took on the role of the second man as the party’s head of organization (general secretary) after Adolf Hitler , before he retired from it at the end of 1932, like Strasser.

Vollmuth died after a long illness at the beginning of 1934 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, where he and his family had moved in 1933.

literature

• Heinrich Egner: The wife of the Reich Organizational Leader. Series in the Landshuter Zeitung. here issues from September 18 and 25, 2004.