Michael Felke

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Michael Felke (1939)

Michael Felke (born April 18, 1895 in Laufersweiler ; † April 8, 1977 in Sohren ) was a German entrepreneur and industrial pioneer in the Hunsrück .

Life

Michael Felke was born as the first of four children in the village of Laufersweiler in the Hunsrück. As the son of a master carpenter, he also learned to be a carpenter . His activity in his father's carpentry business was interrupted by the First World War because he was deployed in the Saarland, Harz, the Balkans and Romania. As a war wounded man he returned to Germany shortly before the end of the war and worked in a carpenter's workshop in Koblenz and then in the radio works in Rheinböllen as well as briefly as a model carpenter in a foundry.

In 1919 Michael Felke took over his father's carpentry business and together with his brother Franz founded the Felke Möbelwerke . In 1924 he married Maria Oberst from Belgweiler . After a devastating fire in the Laufersweiler workshops in May 1928, Michael Felke relocated his business to the neighboring Sohren that same year. In 1933 he and his family from Laufersweiler moved to the Sohren company premises. Through the expansion of the company and the associated job allocation, he became known in the Hunsrück as an industrial pioneer.

In the 1950s, his three sons Walter , Aloys and Günter Felke joined the company management. At the end of the 1960s, he left the management of the company to his sons, who ran the company until it was liquidated.

Honors

Michael Felke receives the Federal Cross of Merit 1965

1957 received Felke from Pope Pius XII. the Order of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . The municipality of Sohren granted Felke honorary citizenship . In 1965 Michael Felke was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class .

Street names

Memorial plaque in Michael-Felke-Strasse in Sohren

Web links

Commons : Michael Felke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F. Böhmer: The Felke family , Biochronik Hunsrück, Vol. 1, Simmern 1965, p. 195
  2. ↑ a b April 18, 1895–1995, Michael Felke 100 years, pioneer of the industrial settlement in the Hunsrück , Rhein-Zeitung from 22/23. April 1995
  3. ^ Fritz Schellack: Laufersweiler, Geschichte einer Hunsrückdorfes , series 22, Argental 1994
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Heinemann: Fritz Vollbracht, Chronicle of an upheaval , Simmern 2006, ISBN 978-3-9810654-1-1
personal data
SURNAME Felke, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Laufersweiler
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1977
Place of death Sohren