Wilhelm Schöpflin

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Headquarters of the mail order company Schöpflin in Lörrach-Haagen

Wilhelm Schöpflin (born September 26, 1881 in Hägelberg ; † July 8, 1952 in Lörrach-Haagen ) was a German entrepreneur and the founder of the mail order company Schöpflin .

Life

Wilhelm Schöpflin came from a farming family. After attending elementary school in Haagen, he switched to the Lever-Gymnasium in Lörrach . Then he did a commercial apprenticeship at the Brombach textile company Großmann. Working for a Basel freight forwarding company gave me an insight into this industry and the opportunity to acquire French language skills.

In July 1907, Schöpflin and his wife opened a small shop in the then still independent community of Haagen. The business slowly but steadily developed into the nucleus of a large company . In this shop, textile scraps from the factories in Wiesental and Alsace were also sold. During the First World War , Wilhelmine Schöpflin ran the shop alone, as her husband was in the war. After the war it was difficult to expand the business and in 1923 the company came to the brink of ruin due to inflation.

With the entry into textile wholesaling in 1924, rapid growth began and in 1925 the sons joined the company. Before the global economic crisis in 1929 restricted Schöpflin lending to wholesale customers, and turned to the customer segment of end users. In 1930, Schöpflin founded a mail order company , which, according to the company, was initiated by a visit to a Parisian department store.

In 1931 the textile manufacturer Haagen Wilhelm Schöpflin was created . In 1938 he took over the Gebrüder Grossmann textile manufacturer in Brombach and with this company also 62 company apartments. In 1941 Wilhelm Schöpflin took over the operational management of the company again, as his sons, Hans and Rudolf, were called up for military service. He set up the Wilhelm Schöpflin Foundation, a benefit and pension fund for his employees. In 1948 Hans and Rudolf Schöpflin came back and took over the management of the Schöpflin Group.

family

On March 22, 1906, Wilhelm Schöpflin married Wilhelmine Sütterlin (* 1884) in the Protestant Germanus Church in Brombach, with whom he had two sons:

  • Hans (1906–1985) ⚭ September 5, 1935 Trudel Moser
    • Heidi Schöpflin-Junghanss
    • Hans Schöpflin
    • Albert Schöpflin , photographer, filmmaker, painter ∞ Gisela Szemere
      • Nikola
      • Stefanie
      • Christian
  • Eduard Rudolf (1910–?) ⚭ May 23, 1940 Annemarie Schmidt

Honors

In 1951 he became an honorary citizen of the then still independent municipality of Haagen. In Lörrach-Brombach a street is named after Wilhelm Schöpflin.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Klettke: Nine decades of Schöpflin. The rise and fall of a trading company. In: Badische Heimat , Volume 82, issue 4/2002, pp. 700–704.
  • Hanns Uhl: At the grave of Wilhelm Schöpflin. The lever band said goodbye to a friend from home. In: Die Margrafschaft, Heft 8/1952, pp. 15-16.
  • Günter Huhndorf [edit.]: First mail order business Schöpflin (1907 Haagen near Lörrach). In: Günter Huhndorf: Roots of Prosperity: Images and Documents of Southwest German Economic History. [Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft d. Industrial u. Chambers of Commerce in Baden-Württemberg]
  • Gerhard Moehring: The honorary citizen portrait: Wilhelm Schöpflin, honorary citizen 1951, Hans Schöpflin, b. December 12, 1906, honorary citizen 1956. In: Unser Lörrach (1974), pp. 32–35.
  • Haagen community (ed.), Fritz Schülin : Rötteln-Haagen. 1965. pp. 352-356. (Großversandhaus Schöpflin Haagen) and p. 565 (family table)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Klettke p. 700; leobw with a different incorrect information
  2. ↑ see Uhl, p. 15
  3. ↑ see Poisel, p. 22
  4. ↑ Klettke, p. 700
  5. ↑ see Klettke p. 701
  6. ↑ see Uhl, p. 15.
  7. ↑ see Schülin, p. 565.
  8. ↑ bk: Giving meaning to money. In: Weiler Zeitung from November 8, 2017; accessed on July 30, 2018
  9. ^ Valeska von Roques: The world of Albert Scopin on www.scopin.info; his stage name is Albert Scopin; accessed on July 30, 2018
  10. ↑ see Schülin, p. 565.
personal data
SURNAME Schöpflin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and the founder of the mail order company Schöpflin
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Haegelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1952
Place of death Loerrach-Haagen