Max Berk

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Max Berk (born November 14, 1907 , † March 31, 1993 in Mannheim ) was a German textile entrepreneur.

Career

As a young man, Berk achieved sporting success as a soccer player. In the VfR Mannheim team , the striker won the Baden state championship eleven times alongside Sepp Herberger . After finishing his sporting career, in 1938 he acquired the lingerie factory in Mannheim, where he had completed his apprenticeship, and switched its production to women's clothing. During the Second World War he lost his company and from 1945 rebuilt it in Nussloch .

During a trip to the United States in the mid-1950s, he acquired the rights to the Betty Barclay brand and successfully introduced it and the concept of young fashion for a specific target group on the German market. In 1960 the brands Vera Mont and 1968 Gil Bret were added.

In 1982 he retired from the management and handed it over to his son-in-law Jürgen H. Winter. From then on, Berk devoted himself to building a textile museum in Ziegelhausen .

He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wilhelm Lorch Foundation , where he campaigned for the promotion of young talent in the industry.

Berk also promoted the offspring in sports. As long-time chairman and later president of the tennis club Schwarz-Gelb Heidelberg, he acted as a patron in addition to honorary posts. At the beginning of the 1950s, he not only built the first pure tennis hall in Germany for the club, but also provided the funds that made Heidelberg and the TC Schwarz-Gelb become a true tennis stronghold.

Honors

literature

  • Max Berk , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 3, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Berk, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1907
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1993
Place of death Mannheim