Sergei Shilkin
Sergei Apollonowitsch Schilkin ( Russian Сергей Аполлонович Жилкин / Sergej Apollonovič Žilkin ; * December 27, 1915 in Petrograd ; † July 18, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur of Russian origin. His father was the St. Petersburg spirits producer and purveyor to the court Apollon Fjodorowitsch Schilkin (* December 14, 1877 , † June 24, 1944 ; grave at the Kaulsdorf cemetery in Section I U-131), who emigrated to Berlin with his family in 1921 .
life and work
After graduating from high school, which he passed in 1936 at the Berlin-Karlshorster Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium , Sergei Schilkin studied mechanical engineering at what was then the Technical University of Berlin from 1938 and was head of the institute for welding technology at the TH since 1944.
From 1945 to 1946, in addition to his work as a lecturer, he and his wife Erna rebuilt the spirits factory built by their father in Berlin-Kaulsdorf and destroyed in the Second World War . In 1948 he gave up his university activities and later developed the company into one of the leading quality production facilities in the GDR . The company , which had since become state-owned , was "transferred to public ownership" in 1971 , but Schilkin remained the manager of the Schilkin state-owned company for a decade until he retired .
After the re- privatization in 1990, Sergei Schilkin took over the management of what is now called Schilkin GmbH & Co. KG . After handing over the operational management to his son-in-law Peter Mier in 1992, he continued to exert intense influence on the development of the company, particularly through the reactivation of traditional vodka brands based on old family recipes and the establishment of branches in Saint Petersburg and in the United States was marked. In 1995 he published his memoirs under the title Hope while you breathe . Schilkin is buried in the Kaulsdorf cemetery.
Sergei Schilkin was Honorary President of the Federal Association of the German Spirits Industry and Importers and the Association of the Central German Spirits Industry . He and the Schilkin Foundation he founded sponsored the Tierpark Berlin and various social and cultural projects in the Berlin districts of Kaulsdorf and Biesdorf . After reunification he became a member of the SPD .
Sergei Schilkin was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in the GDR in 1972 and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in reunified Germany .
literature
- Schilkin, Sergej Apollonowitsch: Hope, as long as you breathe. acts n 'facts GmbH, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-98046-810-7
- Jan Wielgohs: Schilkin, Sergej Apollonowitsch . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Berlin Week of August 8, 2007
Web links
- SCHILKIN GmbH & Co. KG
- Birgitt Eltzel: Sergei Schilkin died at the age of 91. Retrieved March 1, 2012 . in: Berliner Zeitung of July 28, 2007
- Schilkin in the SPD archive in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spelling of the names in some sources also Sergej and Appolonowitsch
- ↑ Schilkin was already burning vodka for the Tsar ( memento from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 27, 1972, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schilkin, Sergei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Жилкин, Сергей Аполлонович (Russian); Schilkin, Sergei Apollonowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur of Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrograd |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 2007 |
| Place of death | Berlin |