Otto Kauffmann

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Ceramic tile from a floor covering, before 1906

Otto Adolph Kauffmann (born January 13, 1875 in Niedersedlitz , † May 15, 1941 in Dresden ) was a German manufacturer.

Life

Otto Kauffmann came from a papermaking family. His grandfather was the papermaker Peter Philipp Kauffmann. His father Carl Emil Otto Kauffmann (1845–1900) was a paper manufacturer and in 1871 the founder of the Otto Kauffmann company, chemical factory, chamotte and mosaic plate factory and later of Otto Kauffmann Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH . Both companies were based in Niedersedlitz.

After attending primary school in Niedersedlitz and secondary school in Dresden , Kauffmann studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg and the Technische Hochschule Dresden . In Berlin he became a member of the Corps Rheno-Guestphalia . In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock Dr. phil.

In the same year he joined his father's company, which he took over after the death of his father in 1900. Under Otto Adolph Kauffmann's leadership, the company developed into one of the leading suppliers of fireclay products and mosaic tiles in Germany. The edging of the platform steps in Dresden-Neustadt station was made by Kauffmann .

Kauffmann was a member of the board of the Association of Saxon Industrialists and belonged to the Dresden Chamber of Commerce . He was married to Bertha Tiedemann from New York. The couple had 2 daughters and 3 sons.

literature

  • Kauffmann, Otto, Adolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 841.
  • Kauffmann, Otto Adolf. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 1102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 55.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kauffmann, Otto Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedersedlitz
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1941
Place of death Dresden