Rudolf Oetker

Rudolf Oetker (born November 17, 1889 in Berlin ; † March 8, 1916 near Verdun ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur .

Life

Rudolf Oetker was the son of August Oetker , the founder of the Bielefeld company Dr. August Oetker KG , and his wife Caroline Oetker geb. Jacobi. He attended the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld , studied chemistry at the Technical University of Hanover and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and in 1909 became a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn . In 1914 he was with the dissertation "On new esters of some monosaccharides with acetic acid , benzoic acid , cinnamic acid and caffeic acid " doctorate and joined the leadership of his father's company as a partner.

During the First World War , Oetker was drafted into the Uhlans and then transferred to the infantry . He led a company of 200 soldiers. He fell at Verdun at the age of 26. A foundation by his mother Caroline Oetker in memory of him, who had already suggested a concert hall for Bielefeld during his lifetime and who played the piano and organ himself, made the construction of the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle possible .

Oetker was married to Ida nee Meyer. The couple had a daughter, Ursula Oetker, and a son, Rudolf-August Oetker , who was born six months after his father's death and who took over the family business in 1944. In 1919 Ida Oetker married Richard Kaselowski , who was part of the company's management until his death in 1944.

literature

• Rüdiger Jungbluth : The Oetkers, shops and secrets of Germany's most famous economic dynasty. Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-02112-9 , p. 85.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturamt occupies Oetkerhalle twice. Neue Westfälische , accessed on September 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11 , 410
3. ↑ Kulturamt occupies Oetkerhalle twice. Neue Westfälische , accessed on September 8, 2015 .