Reinhold Mendritzki

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Reinhold Mendritzki (born July 3, 1931 in Layß , Braunsberg district , East Prussia ; † May 13, 2014 in Plettenberg ) was a German entrepreneur and philanthropist .

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Mendritzki was born in East Prussia and came to Plettenberg in the Sauerland as a 13-year-old refugee during the Second World War . He found shelter with a farmer in Affeln and began an agricultural apprenticeship before completing another apprenticeship as a rolling miller in Plettenberg and later rose to become a rolling mill foreman and operations manager. In 1970 he founded Reinhold Mendritzki Kaltwalzwerk GmbH & Co. KG.

After German reunification, Mendritzki became heavily involved in companies in East Germany. In 1991 he founded MWS Schneidwerkzeuge GmbH in Schmalkalden , thereby maintaining the manufacturing industry in the city after the tool combination founded in 1969 was to be wound up by the trust and partly sold outside the industry. Rötberg GmbH, acquired in 2001, was incorporated into MWS, the total investment volume in the Schmalkalden area amounted to over 35 million euros, the group of companies employs over 300 people. For his services he received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1999 and on October 3, 2009 he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the City of Schmalkalden.

In 1992 he founded Meteor Umformtechnik and the Mendritzki industrial park in Zella-Mehlis , in which (as of 2009) over 400 employees work. In 2009, the Mendritzki Group had two plants in Plettenberg, one in Bochum and three plants in Thuringia and employed around 480 people.

When the Protestant parish freely offered its shares in the Plettenberg Hospital in 2006 and there was a threat that the hospital would be taken over by investors, he established the Reinhold Mendritzki Foundation, which, with a capital of 1.3 million euros, acquired around 48% of the hospital's shares, so that the rest of the city and the hospital could remain in municipal ownership. At the same time he founded the support association for the hospital, which with 1,700 members became the largest association in Plettenberg. According to his own statements, Mendritzki wanted to “only give back to the people of Plettenberg with his extensive foundations what they have given me over the decades”. At the New Year's reception of the Mayor of Plettenberg in 2008, Mendritzki received the City of Plettenberg's Ring of Honor, the municipality's highest award, for his extraordinary commitment and services to the city of Plettenberg.

At the end of 2016, the hospital shares of the Mendritzki Foundation were acquired by the radprax group.

Awards

  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1999)
  • Ring of Honor of the City of Plettenberg (2008)
  • Medal of Honor of the City of Schmalkalden (2009)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mendritzki.de: About us , accessed on April 14, 2018
  2. ^ Thuringian State Chancellery - Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Medal bearer
  3. ↑ The hospital gets a new sponsorship . Süderländer Tageblatt, December 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mendritzki, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Layß , Braunsberg district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2014
Place of death Plettenberg