Richard Franck (industrialist)
Richard Franck (born June 21, 1871 in Ludwigsburg , † April 18, 1931 in Berlin ) was a major German industrialist . He was the owner of the Heinrich Franck Söhne coffee company and founder of the library and the War Museum World War II library .
His company was founded in 1828 and has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of replacement coffee made from chicory with 27 plants in eleven countries.
In May 1924 he received an honorary doctorate in law at Rosenstein Castle in Stuttgart for the creation of the World War I library , with which he attempted to collect all domestic and foreign literature on the First World War .
In September 1923 Franck gave Adolf Hitler a loan of 60,000 Swiss francs . On January 17, 1942, at a table discussion in Wolfsschanze, Hitler said: "Without the acquaintance of Richard Franck, the Korn-Franck, I would not have been able to get the observer through in 1923."
Remarks
- ↑ The contract text is u. a. printed by: Georg Franz-Willing: Origin of the Hitler Movement 1919–1922 . Preussisch-Oldendorf 1974, p. 289 f.
- ↑ Werner Jochmann (Ed.): Monologues in the Führer headquarters 1941-1944 . Hamburg 1982, p. 208.
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| SURNAME | Franck, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1931 |
| Place of death | Berlin |