Victor Toyka

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Victor Toyka (born August 24, 1875 in Katowice ; † May 4, 1942 ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Victor Toyka completed an apprenticeship at the iron works in Katowice and then worked temporarily in a company in Szczecin before moving to Berlin at the local hardware store Jacob & Co. Ravene only employee , then Handlungsbevollmächtigter was.

On October 1, 1905, Toyka became an authorized signatory at the iron wholesaler Heinr in Dortmund . Aug. Schulte . After this was converted into a stock corporation shortly afterwards , Victor Toyka became a member of the board of the AG. During the First World War he established "a close connection to the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG and thus gave the iron wholesaler strong factory support". Entrepreneurially strengthened, Eisen-AG was able to found the United Stahlwerke AG under Toyka and through this take over all the other founding companies in northwest Germany. Even during the Weimar Republic , Toyka expanded the AG's sphere of activity through various branches and participations in smaller iron dealers.

Meanwhile, Toyka made a name for itself in the Dortmund sports scene . He retired in 1933 , the year the seizure of power by the Nazis , "for health reasons" from the Heinr. Aug. Schulte AG . He died in the middle of World War II at the age of 66.

Toyka was also the business leader of the German Gymnastics Association in the early 1930s .

Victor Toyka Street

The Victor-Toyka-Strasse in Dortmund, where the sports club TSC Eintracht Dortmund has its headquarters, was named after the iron trade board.

literature

  • Fritz Pudor (editor): necrologist from the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . Born 1939–1951. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1955 ( online copy ).

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d Pudor (1955), see under literature.
  2. ^ Klaus Buske: Dortmund / Heinrich August who ...? in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 1, 2007, accessed on February 21, 2013
  3. ↑ Compare the imprint at Alexander Kiel (CEO): IMPRINT ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page tsc-eintracht-dortmund.de , accessed on February 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsc-eintracht-dortmund.de
personal data
SURNAME Toyka, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1942