Max Radestock (member of the cooperative)

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Max Radestock (born February 21, 1854 in Dresden ; † January 10, 1913 in Langebrück ) was a German consumer cooperative and the first chairman of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations (ZdK), founded in 1903 .

Entire board of the ZdK 1903, from left Karl Schmidtchen , Konrad Barth , Max Radestock (chairman), Heinrich Kaufmann (secretary)

youth

Max Radestock was born in Dresden on February 21, 1854. After completing elementary school, he apprenticed to a soap boiler with his foster father . For three years he went on a journeyman's journey through Germany. When he returned to Dresden, he became a worker in an earthenware factory . There he soon made a modest career that was possible for him as a worker. He became a warehouse manager and warehouse overseer.

Consumer cooperative

In 1885 he was in the board of the consumer association of Pieschen selected. In 1889 he became a part-time managing director there, and from 1892 full-time. He worked for four years on the board of the association of Saxon consumer associations and then became association director. In 1902 he worked out the draft statutes of the newly founded central association, which was discussed in October 1902 by the relevant commission. At the founding meeting of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations (ZdK) in Dresden, Radestock was elected to the board of the newly founded association in 1903. This board worked on a voluntary basis. The board appointed him chairman. Max Radestock died in 1913 after a serious and painful illness.

Honors

The Radestock street in Dresden's Kaditz was named after him . Since 1935 the street laid out after the First World War has been named Dungerstraße in honor of Hermann Dunger .

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Kaufmann: Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations . Published on behalf of the board and committee of the Central Association of German Consumers, printed by Verlagsgesellschaft deutscher Konsumvereine mbH, Hamburg 1928, p. 59.
  2. ^ Streets and squares in Kaditz. Retrieved May 15, 2013 .

literature

  • Heinrich Kaufmann: Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations . Published on behalf of the board and committee of the Central Association of German Consumers, printed by Verlagsgesellschaft deutscher Konsumvereine mbH, Hamburg 1928, in particular page 308.
  • Renate Schönfuß: Max Hirschnitz and Max Radestock from Langebrück shaped German consumer history . [1] , accessed January 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Radestock, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German consumer cooperative, first chairman of the board of the Central Association of German consumer associations
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1913
Place of death Langebrück