Rudolf Vollmöller

Rudolf Wilhelm Vollmöller (born November 17, 1818 in Unterheimbach ; † June 22, 1868 in Ilsfeld ) was a German entrepreneur who introduced mail order and parcel delivery services in Germany as early as 1860.

Life

Rudolf Vollmöller was a son of Johann Heinrich Justus Vollmöller . He was born as the fourth of six children in the Unterheimbach rectory. He was the only one who survived childhood. He attended secondary school and completed commercial training in Heilbronn and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1846 he married Sophie Dallinger, b. Lust (born August 28, 1807, † April 6, 1874), a merchant widow 11 years older. He took over their company in Ilsfeld, expanded it and diversified the business. He expanded the colonial goods trade to include an emigration agency, an insurance agency and a transatlantic mail order business - long before Neckermann and Otto .

His agency looked after Swabian emigrants to the USA, took care of all the formalities, organized the journey to the overseas ports in Germany and Holland and supplied the emigrants in the USA with local products from Swabia and Germany via its own mail order business. He also acquired the salt monopoly for part of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

His two sons, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Vollmöller, made careers. The first-born became a professor of Romance languages; the later born founded Vollmoeller AG . Rudolf Vollmöller died of a heart attack in 1868 at the age of only 49. He was buried in Ilsfeld.

literature

• August Holder: Councilor of Commerce Robert Vollmöller - his life and work , Heilbronn 1912
• Frederik D. Tunnat: Karl Vollmoeller: poet and cultural manager. A biography , Berlin 2011
• Karl Vollmöller: History of the Vollmöller family , Dresden 1937

Web links

• Rudolf Vollmoeller's short biography in the article about Karl Vollmoeller's ancestors