Paul Thorer

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Paul Albert Thorer

Paul Albert Thorer (born March 5, 1858 in Görlitz , † April 7, 1920 in Leipzig ) was a German entrepreneur and association official of the tobacco industry . For many years he headed the internationally operating tobacco company Theodor Thorer , which his father founded. The important Persian breed in Namibia goes back to Thorer , through which the previous Russian-Near Eastern Persian monopoly was broken.

Career

Villa Thorer at Beethovenstrasse 35, corner of Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse (1898)
Grave of the Paul Thorer family, Südfriedhof Leipzig , XV. Department (closed in 2014)

Paul Thorer was the third son of the furrier and tobacco merchant Theodor Thorer from Görlitz . Paul's older brothers were Ernst and Curt Thorer, the younger Theodor, Max and Fritz, all of them were tobacco merchants. Since his father wanted to entrust him with the management of Russian business relations, Paul was sent to Moscow in 1875 to learn Russian.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Paul Thorer initiated the establishment of the breeding of Karakul sheep ( Persians ) from Russia in Germany and above all their establishment in what was then German Southwest Africa, today's Namibia . In the spring of 1903, Thorer and Julius Kühn , Tierzucht-Institut Halle / Saale, arranged for four bucks and 28 dams to be imported from Bukhara (Central Asia) to Germany. At the request of the then German governor of Southwest Africa, Friedrich von Lindequist , Paul Thorer bought ten ewes from a transport of karakul sheep destined for Austria, as well as two karakulrams already bred in Groß-Enzersdorf . In 1907 he initiated the first transport of pure-bred animals, from which the important karakul breed in Namibia developed (Swakara). Swakara Persians were at times one of Namibia's most important export items.

In 1912 his fortune amounted to almost 2 million marks and he was appointed to the Royal Saxon Commerce Council. He owned a manor and the houses at Brühl 70, Ritterstrasse 31, 33 and 35 in Leipzig. He himself lived in the Beethovenstr. 35 in Leipzig.

Shortly after his death in 1921 - and at his suggestion - the Association of Leipziger Rauchwarenfirmen e. V. in the Reich Association of German Tobacco Manufacturers, seat Leipzig e. V. renamed and thus to a more national interest representation. His son-in-law Paul Hollender became the first chairman .

See also

Commons : Thorer company  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erich Dittrich : Theodor and Paul Thorer. In: Life pictures of Saxon business leaders. Sächsische Lebensbilder Volume 3. Leiner, Leipzig 1941, pp. 346–362.
  • Karin Löffler, Iris Schöpa, Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipzig South Cemetery. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, p. 146.

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  • The individual records are partially cited from www.biogramme.de see here , accessed on March 14, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. Karin Löffler, Iris Schöpa, Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipziger Südfriedhof . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, p. 146.
  2. Karin Löffler, Iris Schöpa, Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipziger Südfriedhof. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, p. 146; Hessian Wirtschaftsarchiv, Dept. 121. Thorer & Co. GmbH & Co . Overview available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed April 13, 2013; 325 years of the Thorer family - 75 years of Theodor Thorer . Self-published by Thorer, Leipzig 1937, family tree before p. 13.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hessischeswirtschaftsarchiv.de  
  3. Wolf Eberhard Trauer: Karakulschafe in aller Welt , in Das Pelzgewerbe , Volume XVI, New Series, 1965 No. 2, pp. 59–66.
  4. ^ Franke / Kroll: Jury Fränkel's Rauchwaren-Handbuch 1988/89 . Rifra Publishing House.
  5. ^ Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the Kingdom of Saxony. Rudolf Martin publishing house, Berlin 1912, p. 46.
  6. ^ Otto Feistle: Rauchwarenmarkt and Rauchwarenhandel. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931, p. 69. Table of contents .
  7. www.bundesarchiv.de; available online; Retrieved April 15, 2013