- Gustav Schickedanz
Infobox Person
name= Gustav Abraham Schickedanz
caption=
birth_date= birth date|1895|1|1|df=y
birth_place=Fürth
dead=dead
death_date= death date and age|1977|3|28|1895|1|1|df=y
death_place=Fürth
occupation= entrepreneur
spouse= second wife Grete Schickedanz, née Lachner (first wife Anna Schickedanz, née Zehnder)Gustav Abraham Schickedanz (
1 January 1895 —28 March 1977 ) was a German entrepreneur. He had two daughters, Madeleine Schickedanz and Louise Dedi.Schickedanz came from a modest background. After attending "
realschule " in his hometown ofFürth , he did a commercialapprenticeship .In 1919 he married Anna Zehnder.
He registered his first enterprise in 1923 and in 1927 registered the mail order company Quelle, later Europe's largest mail-order house.
On
July 15 ,1929 , his wife Anna and only son Leonhard were killed in an automobile accident in which he was also seriously injured. Only his daughter at the time, Louise, was unharmed.In 1935 Schickedanz acquired the rights to the Tempo brand and the paper company Vereinigte Papierwerke in
Nuremberg . In 1939 Quelle achieved sales of 40 million Reichmarks.Schickedanz was a member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party and after the war was initially prohibited from carrying on his business by the American occupation authorities. He was later rehabilitated and in 1952 was awarded a "citizen's medal" by the city of Fürth; in 1959 he was made an honorary citizen, the equivalent of being given the keys to the city.
After numerous acquisitions, Quelle's group sales reached 5 billion Deutschmarks by 1972.
Gustav Schickedanz and his wife Grete initiated a number of charitable works for which they received much public recognition.
Sources
* cite news
first = Tanja
last = Kewes
title = Wollen! Wägen! Wagen!
url = http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Politik/Deutschland/_pv/doc_page/1/_p/200050/_t/ft/_b/1058340/default.aspx/wollen!-waegen!-wagen!.html
format =
work = Handelsblatt Nr.65
publisher = Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH
page = 10
date =March 31 2006
accessdate = 2007-01-26
language = German
* "Die Zeit" Nr. 24, 5. Juni 2003 Autor: Georg Etscheit De icon
* "Das kleine Buch vom Taschentuch" von Eugen Roth De icon
* Artikel in CICERO "Die Weihnachtsfrau" von Thomas Schuler) De iconExternal links
* [http://www.gustav-schickedanz-stiftung.de Gustav-Schickedanz Stiftung web site]
* [http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=Gustav_Schickedanz Wiki familee tree]Persondata
NAME= Schickedanz, Gustav Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH=1895-01-01
PLACE OF BIRTH=Fürth
DATE OF DEATH=1977-03-27
PLACE OF DEATH=Fürth
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