Max E. Schmidt

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Max E. Schmidt (born September 5, 1872 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ), † November 13, 1945 in Stadtroda ) was a German wholesale merchant.

Life

Max E. Schmidt was born as the son of the Elberfeld businessman Emanuel Schmidt. After attending grammar school in Elberfeld, he studied law at the universities of Marburg, Tübingen, Leipzig and Heidelberg. In 1891 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . In Tübingen he joined the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . In 1894 he was promoted to Dr. iur. et cam. PhD. In 1895 he joined his father's company, Peter Schmidt, Elberfeld, which specializes in the export of tools, steel goods and similar products . In 1905 he married Luise Schuchardt from Elberfeld. His international business activities took him to England, Canada, Mexico and the United States of America in particular. In 1912 he became the sole owner of the company. In 1935 he sold the company to Carl Kämmerling. Bombed out in 1943, he moved to live with his son in Poznan . He died while fleeing from Posen in Stadtroda.

Max E. Schmidt was chairman of the Rhenish-Westphalian Association for Export and Wholesale and deputy chairman of the employers' association for trade in Wuppertal. From 1907 to 1931 he was a member of the board of the Bergische Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Remscheid and board member of the Reich Association of German Wholesale and Overseas Trade. He acted as an assessor in the regional labor court in Wuppertal.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Tübinger Rhenanen, 5th edition (2002), p. 91 f.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 104 , 753; 129 , 326
  3. ↑ Tool manufacturer and dealer, Peter Ludwig Schmidt, Wuppertal-Elberfeld (holzwerken.de)
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Max E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wholesale merchant
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1945
Place of death Stadtroda