Theodor Plieninger (industrialist)

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Theodor Plieninger (seated, far left) on the IG Farben supervisory board, 1926
Administration building of the chemical factory Griesheim-Elektron in Frankfurt

Theodor Plieninger (born April 10, 1856 in Stuttgart , † January 13, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German businessman and manager in the chemical industry .

Life

Theodor Plieninger was a son of the Stuttgart pastor and dean Gustav Plieninger. After attending grammar school, he did a commercial apprenticeship in the chemicals dealer Schmidt & Dillmann in Stuttgart . After working abroad ( Milan , London , ten years in India ), he joined Chemische Fabrik Griesheim AG on February 1, 1891 , and was a member of its board from July 1, 1893. After the merger with Chemische Fabrik Elektron AG in 1898 to form Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron AG (CFGE), Plieninger became the general director (chairman of the board) of this stock corporation on January 1, 1910 . During the First World War he was involved in founding the United Aluminum Works AG (VAW). In 1925 he led the negotiations for the CFGE to found IG Farben , whose board of directors he joined in the same year and of which he belonged until his death in 1930.

Between 1923 and 1928 Plieninger sat on the supervisory board of the metal bank , from 1928 on the supervisory board of the metal company . He was temporarily a member of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Frankfurt-Hanau Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which had been unified since 1922 , member of the board of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie as well as an honorary member of the Association for the Protection of the Interests of the Chemical Industry in Germany and the Professional Association of the Chemical Industry .

Honors

In 1916, Plieninger was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Stuttgart (as Dr.-Ing. E. h.). During his lifetime, a Theodor Plieninger fountain created by the Frankfurt sculptor Carl Stock was erected at the CFGE production site in Bitterfeld . According to him, which is Plieningerstraße in Frankfurt's West End named.

literature

  • 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 , column 1717 f.
  • v. Heider: Dr. Theodor Plieninger †. In: Zeitschrift für angewandte Chemie , Volume 43, 1930, No. 6 (from February 8, 1930), p. 121. doi : 10.1002 / anie.19300430602

Individual evidence

  1. Stefanie Knetsch: The Group's own banking institute of the Metallgesellschaft in the period from 1906 to 1928 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07406-6 , p. 172.
  2. Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . 9th edition, Volume 2, Karl Curtius Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 987.