Richard Schneider (building contractor)

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Richard Schneider (born November 27, 1903 in Elberfeld , † July 17, 1998 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German building contractor and qualified engineer .

Life

Schneider studied at the Technical University in Darmstadt , where he became active in Corps Hassia in 1922 . He lived in Königstein im Taunus near Frankfurt am Main . Through his marriage to the construction company daughter Hilde Kunz, he acquired and took over the construction company Josef Kunz Söhne, which was founded in Höchst am Main in 1863 . Richard Schneider and the company became the largest medium-sized building contractor in Hessen, through the construction of town houses, indoor swimming pools, kindergartens, sewage treatment plants, hospitals and schools. In addition to his work as a building contractor, he was also a lecturer at the TU Darmstadt. In 1976 he received the Grand Cross of Merit with a star from Federal President Walter Scheel . In 1988 his company went bankrupt.

The eldest of his children is Jürgen Schneider , whom he brought up hard and later made the manager of his construction company. Richard Schneider, however, continued to reserve the right to make decisions and eventually fell out with his son, which in business life, when Jürgen Schneider started his own business, culminated in open hostility. The influential senior advised the major banks not to grant his son loans for his construction projects. However, history showed that this advice was not heeded by the banks.

Richard Schneider also had a residence in Switzerland, where he had deposited a high double-digit million amount in bank accounts. He had disinherited his legally convicted son Jürgen. But although Richard Schneider died while his son was in prison, Jürgen Schneider was able to secure a third of Richard Schneider's estate for himself or his own family through lawyers and contracts with his siblings.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schneider, Richard. In: Who is who? The German Who's Who , Schmidt Rönhild, 1988, p. 1214.
  2. ↑ a b c The revenge of the disinherited Der Spiegel , edition 49/1999
  3. ^ Directory of Weinheimer Corps Students 1990, p. 419
  4. ↑ Focus 52/1999: A dachshund named Utz
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse on January 2, 2013: The 2013 calendar is full of anniversaries (accessed on October 26, 2018.)
  6. ↑ Erwin K. Scheuch , Ute Scheuch: Manager in megalomania , limited preview in the Google book search
  7. ^ Henner Kotte :: Leipzig Visitation: and four other crimes , limited preview in the Google book search
  8. ↑ a b Erwin K. Scheuch and Ute Scheuch: Manager im megalomania , 2017, section 20
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel 28/1996: Success with the great Blöff
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractor and graduate engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1998
Place of death Königstein im Taunus