Otto Eckart
Otto Eckart (born February 25, 1936 in Munich ; † June 5, 2016 ) was a German food entrepreneur.
ancestors
The Eckart family had been in the food industry since the 16th century. So among Otto Eckart's ancestors there are farmers, millers, bakers and brewers. Otto Eckart's great-grandfather Johannes Eckart founded one of the first canning factories in Germany in Munich in 1868 and his grandfather, who was also called Otto, set up his own company called Otto Eckart in Munich in 1932 , which produced fruit juices and canned foods and was active in the food wholesale business. His son Werner Eckart founded the company Pfanni-Werk Otto Eckart KG in 1949 and established the Pfanni brand on the market.
Life
Eckart attended the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . After graduating from high school, he studied food chemistry and food technology in Berkeley (USA) and at the Technical University of Berlin . He was active in Corps Borussia Berlin (1958) and Corps Makaria Munich (1959). In 1959 his studies were followed by training in marketing and sales at Henkel in Düsseldorf. In 1961 Otto Eckart joined his father Werner Eckart's company.
In 1973, the Republic appointed him Guatemala to Honorary Consul . In the following year he received the exequatur from the Federal Republic of Germany . The Olympic Committee of Guatemala also appointed him Olympic Attaché for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
In 1993, “Mr. Pfanni ”the company Pfanni-Werke Otto Eckart KG to the German Maizena Holding GmbH. Here he took over a seat on the supervisory board until 2000 .
On the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1996 he founded the Otto Eckart Foundation . Otto Eckart was also a founding member of the Münchner Kindl Foundation for Munich Children.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1976)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1986)
- Decoration of honor for services to the federal state of Lower Austria , Silver Commander's Cross (1986)
- Order "Antonio José de Irisarri" (1992)
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Croatia "Redom Danice Hrvatske S Likom Katarine Zrinske" (2003)
- Order of the Quetzal (2005)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (2014)
- Designation of Otto-Eckart-Platz for a new square in Munich's Werksviertel (2020)
literature
- Otto Eckart, Michael Kamp : The history of the Eckart family - From Franconia to Munich and Hawaii , August-Dreesbach-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-944334-61-5 .
- Otto Eckart: Pfanni - my life. A company biography, August-Dreesbach-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-940061-82-9 .
- Helmut Alt: From potatoes, dumplings and Pfanni , Verlag Mensch und Arbeit, Munich 1959.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carmen Ick-Dietl: Mr. Pfanni is dead , Münchner Merkur Online from June 7, 2016
- ↑ Dumplings from the consul . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 1 , 351; 110 , 892
- ^ Zeit-online: Managers and Markets, August 13, 1993
- ^ Otto Eckart Foundation
- ^ Münchner Kindl Foundation for Munich children
- ↑ Street naming in the Werksviertel. In: ru.muenchen.de. February 6, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckart, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German food business operator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 2016 |
| Place of death | Munich |