Meyer (family)

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Meyer is the name of a family of industrialists originating in Tangermünde , who u. a. the chocolate Feodora made.

The company was founded by Friedrich Theodor Meyer (known as Zucker-Meyer), who was born in Tangermünde in 1796. The sugar boiling plant founded by Fr. Theodor Meyer in 1826 became the first German sugar factory, which by 1945 had developed into one of the largest in Europe.

At the beginning of the Second World War, around 4,500 people worked in the Meyer's factories .

After the expropriation in the late 1940s, the family moved to the West and the Tangermünde sugar refinery company was relocated to Hamburg, where it is still active and family-owned to this day.

people

literature

  • Wolf D. Hartmann / Elke Strauchenbuch: Who was what in Tangermünde - Interesting facts in short biographies about a prevented capital, Wittenberg 2009.
  • Friedrich Meyer: 100 years of Tangermünde sugar refinery 1826–1926, Magdeburg 1926

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. History office Reder, Roeseling & Prüfer: Zertus (1826 - 2016) - history office. In: History Office. January 29, 2015, accessed June 20, 2016 .
  2. Wolf D. Hartmann / Elke Strauchenbuch: Who was was in Tangermünde - Interesting facts in short biographies about a prevented capital, Wittenberg 2009, p. 124.