Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma

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Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (born December 22, 1893 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck , † December 11, 1959 in Hamburg ) was a German entrepreneur and art patron.

The son of the businessman and cigar manufacturer Bernhard Reemtsma joined his father’s company in Erfurt after severe war injuries in 1917 with his brother Hermann Fürchtegott Reemtsma , where he was responsible for sales, advertising and finances. With the endeavor to ensure consistent quality, he made cigarettes a branded item - supported by his long-time advisor Hans Domizlaff since 1921 . For him, a cigarette was "paper, a gram of tobacco and a lot of advertising millions".

After founding a stock corporation , the company's headquarters were relocated to Altona in 1923 . By taking over other companies and through mergers , he developed the company, now trading as Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH , into the most important German cigarette manufacturer, producing around three quarters of the more than 40 billion cigarettes in the prewar period.

The company logo developed in 1920

In 1920 Reemtsma married Gertrud Zülch. This marriage, which resulted in three sons, all of whom died in World War II , was divorced in 1938. A year later Reemtsma married a 23 years younger relative of his first wife, who was also called Gertrud Zülch (1916–1996) and with whom he had a daughter who died shortly after her birth and a son, Jan Philipp Reemtsma . In 1931 the Villa Reemtsma in Othmarschen was completed, which at the time was one of the most expensive private houses in Germany.

Reemtsma also acted as a patron . From 1929 (until 1945), for example, he donated an annual amount of 28,000 Reichsmarks to the Nietzsche Archives , initially anonymously .

After the end of World War II Reemtsma was because of bribery by Hermann Goering in court. The trial resulted in a conviction in 1948. In the same year he was exonerated in the denazification committee . He then took over the management of the company again, which again owned the majority of the German cigarette market by the end of the 1950s.

Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg.

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  1. ↑ Collection of quotes on zitate.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  2. see entry in the DNB
  3. ^ Hermann Hipp, Roland Jaeger, Johannes Weckerle (eds.): Haus K. in O., Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7861-2511-2 , p. 221
  4. ^ Zögling und Erbe Retrieved October 23, 2009 ( Memento of March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Alfred Reckendrees: Review of: Lindner, Erik: The Reemtsma. History of a German family of entrepreneurs. Hamburg 2007, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, April 28, 2008, < http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2008-2-071 >