Richard Greiling

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Richard Greiling (born February 13, 1882 in Groß Drensen ; † 1954 ) was a German entrepreneur .

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After completing school with attending elementary school and then the commercial school in Deutsch Krone , he took part in the First World War with the rank of captain .

Greiling founded the Greiling cigarette factory in Dresden in 1919 . Under his leadership, it became a company with 4,000 workers and an annual turnover of 100 million marks, making it one of the largest German cigarette manufacturers. In 1930 the company was sold to the Reemtsma group.

As a result, Greiling re-established a cigarette factory in Switzerland. In 1936 he, who was also the Bulgarian consul general at the time , bought the Mannheim bodice factory Felina and a shoe factory owned by Eugen and Hermann Herbst, who initially emigrated to the Netherlands due to racist persecution. Also from Jewish property, he bought the Martin Kallmann company, a successful distributor for light railways , the Dorndorf shoe factory in Zweibrücken (1938) and an East German grocery store with more than 100 branches, which was expropriated in the Soviet occupation zone after 1945 .

For his role in the " Aryanization " of businesses it condemned the denazification in Neustadt (Haardt) 200,000 Mark fine. In 1950 he founded Augusta Hotel GmbH in Mannheim.

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  1. Felina corsetry factory in Mannheim
  2. ^ Although Greiling was not a member of the NSDAP , he had to answer for it in 1946; In 1949, in a restitution procedure, he paid the Herbst family a severance payment for “reparation”. See Felina Miederwarenfabrik Mannheim
  3. Not only a department store king was dethroned Stuttgarter Zeitung , February 22, 2013, p. 15
  4. ^ Der Spiegel , May 15, 1948