Werner Eckart

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Werner Eckart (born March 27, 1909 in Munich ; † May 17, 1997 ibid) was a German food entrepreneur. He founded the Pfanni company in 1949 , then in Munich.

Life

The Eckart family has been running food businesses since 1605. Werner Eckart's grandfather, Johannes Eckart, founded the Johs canning factory in 1868 . Eckart , the first Bavarian canning factory. His father, Otto Eckart, the king of dumplings , found a method of preserving potatoes and produced dried potatoes as food for the troops during the First World War . From 1926 to 1928 Werner Eckart trained in the Upper Palatinate canning industry Ludwig Gschossmann GmbH & Co. KG in Schwandorf . In 1932 he received power of attorney in his father's company. On January 1, 1943, he changed the corporate form of the company to a limited partnership . Until 1945, the Wehrmacht ensured high sales of the canning factory in dried potatoes, vegetables and powder . From September 2, 1949, Werner Eckart brought a dehydrated potato mixture to the market under the brand name Pfanni .

The government of José Miguel Ramón Idígoras Fuentes in Guatemala appointed Eckart their consul, and the federal government issued him the exequatur on April 17, 1962 . Werner Eckart acquired the Spreda Nahrungsmittelwerke near Cloppenburg during the economic recession in 1967 . On the occasion of the murder of Karl Graf von Spreti , Werner Eckart resigned as consul of the Republic of Guatemala in 1970. From 1974 Eckart was consul general ad honorem of the Republic of the Philippines . His son Otto Eckart became Consul General of Guatemala in 1974, took over the company in 1987 and founded the Otto Eckart Foundation in 1996 .

Honors

literature

  • Helmut Alt: From potatoes, dumplings and Pfanni , Munich 1959.
  • Otto Eckart, Michael Kamp : The history of the Eckart family - From Franconia to Munich and Hawaii , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-944334-61-5 .
  • Otto Eckart: Pfanni - my life. A company biography , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-940061-82-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Jürgen Teuteberg, Günter Wiegelmann: Food habits in the industrialization of the 19th century p. 85
  2. ↑ Dumplings from the consul . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1966 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Cemetery of the Weak . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1967 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Inventor of the Pfanni dumplings collapsed dead - the heart . In: Berliner Kurier , May 18, 1997
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Eckart, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German food business operator
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1997
Place of death Munich