Richard Sichler

Richard Sichler (born March 29, 1876 in Braunschweig ; † August 7, 1952 in Müllheim (Baden) ) was a German entrepreneur and patron .

Life

Richard Sichler was born the son of the chemicals trader Richard Sichler and his wife Berta. After finishing school, he first completed a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company, followed by a stay in England. Back in Braunschweig, he joins his parents' company and becomes an authorized signatory there.

The entrepreneur and organizer

In 1902 he was looking for a new challenge in Munich. He found her at Kathreiner's malt coffee factories and after a few years also became an authorized signatory and later director (until 1912).

In 1911 at the first international hygiene exhibition in Dresden , he came into contact with Karl August Lingner , who became his great role model. After leaving Kathreiners, Sichler worked as a freelance businessman and consultant until the outbreak of the First World War . He managed to amass a fortune and in 1912 he had Theodor Veil plan a villa in Starnberg for him . In 1915, Sichler was commissioned to set up a department in the Prussian War Ministry to organize the war economy. In this department for restitution systems Sichler (AZS) - the war labor office - he worked with Joachim Tiburtius and tried to coordinate the requirements of the army with those of the industry with regard to soldiers and workers. With a union-friendly social policy, the AZS helped to avoid strikes. After the end of the war, Sichler worked with Wilhelm Groener and Kurt von Schleicher on the demobilization of the imperial army.

Sichler was appointed general manager of the Lingner works in May 1922 . After Lingner's death and the interruption of production caused by the World War, he brought it back to life and founded numerous foreign branches. High investments shortly before the Great Depression got the Lingner works in trouble and led to a sale in 1932. Shortly thereafter, Sichler left the company. In 1928 the TH Dresden made him an honorary senator for his services .

Sichler was now working as a consultant again and had customers like the Carsch house . In 1933, Sichler left Germany because he got into difficulties there because of many business contacts with Jews and because of foreign currency violations. After the Röhm putsch in 1934, an investigation was initiated against him because of his acquaintance with Kurt von Schleicher . Sichler first lived in Basel and then traveled via Bombay (1935) to Shanghai (1936–1939).

The patron

Bürgeln Castle

During a spa stay in Badenweiler , Sichler got to know Bürgeln Castle in 1920 and quickly decided to restore this building. Theodor Veil emerged victorious from an architectural competition in which Richard Riemerschmid and Max Laeuger also took part. After the planning was completed, work began in 1921 and lasted until 1926. The costs are estimated at 7 million euros. On October 24, 1928, at the suggestion of the Architecture Department, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Braunschweig for his monument conservation work .

Parts of the Markgräfler public and even the Bürgeln-Bund saw Sichler's efforts ambiguously and assumed that he intended to transfer the castle - since he had only leased it - to his private property and not want to make it accessible to the public.

In 1939 Sichler returned to Germany from Asia and lived at Bürgeln Castle. There were constant quarrels about the use of the castle, which were also reported in the press and in court. In 1952 Sichler died in the hospital in Müllheim - near Bürgeln Castle - as a result of an embolism. Shortly before, he had signed two contracts with the then federal state of Baden for the purchase of the castle's furnishings. The new federal state of Baden-Württemberg did not recognize these agreements. This ultimately leads to the auction of the inventory on behalf of his widow in 1957. It was an extensive collection of furniture, tiled stoves, porcelain, East Asian handicrafts, miniatures, glass, bronzes, garden sculptures and pictures.

Marriages and offspring

Sichler married Thusnelda von Kutschenbach († 1928) on May 13, 1922. From this marriage the son Peter (* July 1922, † 1971) was born.

In 1941, Sichler married Nelly Rosselet (* 1907, † 1972) for the second time.

Works

• Richard Sichler, Joachim Tiburtius : The workers question a key question of the world war: A contribution to the declaration of the outcome of the war , Berlin 1925

literature

• Anton Josef Martin: Z'Bürglen uf der Höh. Richard Sichler at Schloss Bürgeln , 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029243-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the peppermint oil required for Odol was no longer supplied by the USA
2. ↑ s. Martin p. 62
3. ↑ Institute of the Architecture Department at the TU Braunschweig , accessed on August 19, 2018
4. ↑ Collection and estate of Dr. hc Richard Sichler. Auction catalog. Küppers & Bödiger, Bonn 1957.