Robert Burckhardt

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Robert Burckhardt as a corps student around 1893

Robert Burckhardt (born July 15, 1873 in Wiesloch ; † May 20, 1933 there ) was a German leather manufacturer.

Life

Robert Burckhardt was the son of the Wiesloch leather manufacturer and mayor Julius Burckardt and Dell, née Marie. After attending grammar school in Heidelberg, he studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and became a member of the Corps Saxonia there. He then received his professional training in his father's company, the German Tanner School in Freiberg (Saxony) and the experimental school for the leather industry in Vienna as well as through further stays abroad in England, France and Austria. In 1896 he joined his father's company as a partner, became managing director in 1912 and sole owner of the company in 1927, which had been called Badenia-Lederwerke AG since 1924 .

Burckhardt worked for various specialist and economic journals and published books on practical leather production. He was first chairman of the Badischer Lederwarenfabrikanten association based in Karlsruhe, member of the Heidelberg Chamber of Commerce, the trade committee at the Wiesloch tax office, member of the commercial school council and the trade tax committee in Wiesloch, member of the municipal council of the city of Wiesloch and first chairman of the civil association in Wiesloch.

He took part in the First World War as a captain and finally as a major in the Landwehr. Awards include the Iron Cross II and I Class. He wrote a book about his memories of the war that was put on the list of literature to be sorted out by the Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic .

Fonts

  • Fabrication tables
  • The practical leather production , 1st edition 1903, 2nd edition 1922, published as volume 265 in the chemical-technical library
  • The Burckhardt , 1927
  • Grenade thunder, war memories of a Baden Landwehr officer , 1928

literature

  • Burckhardt, Robert. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , Sp. 350–351.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Weigandt: History of the Corps Saxonia-Berlin zu Aachen 1867-1967 , Aachen 1968, pp. 246, 249
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 24.
  3. ^ Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of the literature to be sorted out , third addendum, Berlin: VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1953 , No. 593 at www.polubbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German leather manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesloch
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1933
Place of death Wiesloch