Walter Pfeiffer (manufacturer)
Walter Pfeiffer (born July 21, 1891 - † November 7, 1971 ) was a German manufacturer .
Life
Walter Pfeiffer was born as the son of the owner of the Ohler Eisenwerk, Theobald Pfeiffer . After finishing school, he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1913 he became a member of the Stauffia Corps . He participated in the First World War as a soldier. At the end of 1919 he joined his father's company as a partner, which at the time operated a sheet metal plant, a multi-line hot rolling mill, normalizing furnaces and its own power generation in the Ohle an der Lenne hydroelectric power station (since 2009 Stadtwerke Mainz). The plant specialized in the production of deep-cut and body panels.
Under Walter Pfeiffer, the plant was expanded to include new halls and rolling mills, an independent water supply was created and a separate sewage treatment plant was built. From his entry to 1963, the plant's production increased tenfold. With around 1,200 employees, the Ohler Eisenwerk became the most important company in the city of Plettenberg , building four hundred company apartments for its employees. In 1959 Walter Pfeiffer founded Ohler Flexrohr and in 1963 a branch in Schifferstadt for the production of glass fiber reinforced polyester light panels. After his death, his son Hans Walter Pfeiffer (1928–2010) continued the company and brought it to the joint venture Alcan Ohler GmbH in 1982 . The plant has been part of the outsourced Novelis Group since 2005 .
From 1935 at the latest until his death, Walter Pfeiffer was a member of the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Advisory Board Wuppertal of Deutsche Bank . From 1920 until the incorporation of Ohles into Plettenberg in 1942, he was a member of the then Ohler municipal council . He was married to Wilhelmine Anneliese Berg (1900–1971) since 1920. On her initiative, the Ohle local association of the German Red Cross was founded in 1925 , and she was its chairman for decades. The Pfeiffer family founded the Ohle kindergarten together in 1956.
Awards
- 1949, appointed honorary boy of the Corps Stauffia
- 1961, made an honorary citizen of the city of Plettenberg
- 1963, awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Ring of honor of the city of Plettenberg
Web links
- Hans Walter Pfeiffer Theobald Pfeiffer, Walter Pfeiffer and Wilhelmine Anneliese Pfeiffer at www.plettenberg-lexikon.de
- Sources on Walter Pfeiffer at www.plettenberg-lexikon.de
- Sources on Theobald Pfeiffer at www.plettenberg-lexikon.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 117
- ↑ Article in: "The West" of September 4, 2009
- ^ Letter from Ohler Eisenwerk from December 1981 on www.plettenberg-lexikon.de
- ↑ Agenda of the 1936 General Assembly of Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft (PDF file; 1.87 MB)
- ↑ Deutsche Bank, Report of the Year 1971 (PDF file; 6.36 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeiffer, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1891 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th November 1971 |