Paul Lechler

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Paul Lechler (around 1910)

Paul Lechler , from Lechler since 1909 , (born November 28, 1849 in Böblingen ; † April 24, 1925 in Stuttgart ) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the German Institute for Medical Mission (DIfÄM).

Life

Paul Lechler took over the paint and varnish factory of his father Christian Lechler and son in Feuerbach as a partner in 1871 . He quickly expanded it into a prosperous company. In 1875 he married the banker's daughter Maria Hartenstein. His son Paul Lechler jun. was later president of the regional church assembly of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

Since the age of 26, Lechler has donated ten percent of his company profits to church and social organizations. As a result, he devoted himself more and more intensively to charitable tasks, including in the care of the poor in Stuttgart, and in 1878 placed the management of the company almost entirely in the hands of employees. After the death of his father in 1878 he sold the factory to August Happold and Hermann Haaß . In 1879 he founded a new company called Paul-Lechler for the production of lubricating oils and wood preservatives .

In 1882 Lechler founded the first private employment agency in Stuttgart, which he managed for eleven years and also supported with financial means, an association to help in exceptional emergencies in the country , the Stuttgart boys' choir Hymnus , the Martinshaus with a chapel and a children's school.

In 1898 Lechler met the mission doctor of the Basel Mission , Georg-Eugen Liebendörfer . He told him about the misery that prevailed in India and the help the mission societies had here. As a result, Lechler founded an association for medical missions at the end of 1898 as an aid organization for the Basel Mission. After further discussions, a separate German institute was set up in 1906 with the German Institute for Medical Mission (DIfÄM) .

In 1916 the building of the tropical convalescent home in Tübingen was completed and opened on November 15th.

Lechler family grave, Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

Honors

In 1909, Lechler received the Order of the Prussian Crown and the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in recognition of his efforts for the DIfÄM . Associated with this was the conferral of personal nobility . He also became a doctor honoris causa at the Tübingen Medical Faculty.

The tropical convalescent home in Tübingen is now called the Paul Lechler Hospital Tropical Clinic. In Böblingen the Paul-Lechler-Schule and the Paul-Lechler-Passage are named after him.

The large hall in the Hospitalhof Stuttgart is called Paul-Lechler-Saal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative publication Paul Lechler. Stuttgart 1954. Quoted in 1 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 384 kB) and 2 ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 317 kB)
  2. ^ Economic archive Baden-Württemberg, Paul Lechler

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personal data
SURNAME Lechler, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lechler, Paul von (since 1909)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder of the German Institute for Medical Mission (DIfÄM)
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Boeblingen
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1925
Place of death Stuttgart