Paul Kracht
Paul Kracht (* 5. January 1863 in Lemgo , † 18th October 1959 ) was a German linen - producer and Commerce .
Life
Paul Kracht came from an old Lemgo merchant family. His great-grandfather Heinrich Christoph Kracht, councilor for the city of Lemgo, founded an agency for trading linen in 1810. Paul Kracht attended the humanistic grammar school in Lemgo and later the weaving school in Mülheim am Rhein, today's Cologne-Mülheim . From the summer semester 1886 he studied at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg engineering and joined in the same semester the Corps Saxonia-Berlin. After graduating, he received practical training in the W. Meckel weaving mill in Ohligs .
In 1886 his father, Christoph Wilhelm Kracht, Privy Councilor of Commerce, founded the company Kracht & Co., Mechanical Linen Weaving, Lemgo, in which he soon worked together with his father from around 1888. The company was continuously expanded under the leadership of Paul Kracht. The product range encompassed sheet linen, toweling fabrics, wipes, diaper fabrics and curtains. His company's products were well known under the names Niereissa , Wohltat , Trockenperle and Krachtuko .
The trading agency founded by his great-grandfather, which he and his father had expanded into an industrial company, celebrated its bicentenary in 2010, when the city of Lemgo hosted an exhibition on the subject of linen in the Museum Hexenbürgermeisterhaus . A family of merchants and entrepreneurs from Lemgo dedicated three centuries . Today the company is run by the seventh generation of the family.
Honorary positions and awards
- Paul Kracht was deputy chairman of section III of the linen trade association, member of the administrative board and chairman of many cultural and political bodies as well as council sealer in the city council of the old Hanseatic city of Lemgo.
- He was the bearer of the Lippe Cross of Honor .
literature
- Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin to Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968
- Crash, Paul. 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. 1001.
- Crash, Paul. 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. 1228.
Web links
- Linen crotch. A family of merchants and entrepreneurs from Lemgo in three centuries , exhibition in the museum witch mayor's house in the city of Lemgo
- Profile on the website of Kracht GmbH & Co. KG
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crash, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linen manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemgo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1959 |
| Place of death | Lemgo |