Viktor Schroeder

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Viktor Schroeder (born April 22, 1922 , † September 14, 2011 ) was a patron and paper manufacturer in Birkesdorf , a district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Schroeder was the founder and owner of the medium-sized company Roteck, which was a manufacturer of paper goods such as exercise books, notepads, etc. 1985 Roteck took over the company Kreuzer Produktion & Vertrieb , a manufacturer of stationery . Schroeder relocated his company from Birkesdorf to Huchem-Stammeln . In 1987 he sold his company to Pelikan AG . The Pelikan logistics center closed in 2010 and moved to Berlin.

Schroeder founded the Sophien Foundation , which serves exclusively charitable and benevolent purposes. She built the Sophienhof residential complex, which is connected to a service center. It consists of 88 dormitories and care places as well as, after the expansion in 2006, a total of 114 senior citizen apartments , Schroeder and his wife moved there themselves in 2005.

Viktor Schroeder was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his outstanding social commitment . He was made an honorary citizen of the Niederzier community . Viktor-Schroeder-Strasse in Niederzier was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.aachen-gedenken.de/trauerbeispiel/viktor-schroeder/19969159
  2. http://www.niederzier.de/aktuelles/downloads/NiederzierNr11_20.pdf