Meyer (family)
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
- Friedrich Theodor Meyer, called Theodor (1796–1884), entrepreneur and founder of the Tangermünde sugar refinery
- Friedrich Hugo Ernst Meyer (1870–1927), entrepreneur and founder of the shipping company Fr. Meyer's Sohn Hamburg
- Friedrich Theodor Meyer (1870–1928), manager and general director of the Tangermünde sugar factory
- R. Johannes Meyer (1882–1967), lawyer, until 1933 President of the Hamburg Regional Court .
- Walter Meyer (rower) (1901–1949), entrepreneur and Olympic gold medalist
- Janne Friederike Meyer (* 1981), German show jumper and Olympian
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
- ↑ History office Reder, Roeseling & Prüfer: Zertus (1826 - 2016) - history office. In: History Office. January 29, 2015, accessed June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolf D. Hartmann / Elke Strauchenbuch: Who was was in Tangermünde - Interesting facts in short biographies about a prevented capital, Wittenberg 2009, p. 124.