Gustav Schickedanz (* 1 January 1895 in "† 28. March 1977 ebenda) was a German manufacturer and entrepreneur.

Coming of to a craftsman family, he opened a wholesale business for short, knowing and Wollwaren after completing commercial teachings and the war service 1922. 1919 he married Anna Zehnder.

1927 it created the distributing house source and oriented themselves thereby at the American idea of the Versandhandels. This modified it German conditions accordingly over and perfected it, in order to carry for the German consumer habits calculation. It set quality from the outset on the maxim "at an appropriate price".

1929 died its wife, his father and its son Leo with a car accident, Schickedanz was heavily hurt. The daughter Louise remained intact.

1935 acquired Schickedanz the rights at the mark speed and the united paper works in Nuremberg. 1939 reached the distributing house source a conversion of 40 million Marks. With its second wife Grete Schickedanz, which was since 1922 its employee, it brought the enterprise after end 2. World war, in with an air raid to 16. March 1945 the camps in successful courses were destroyed.

After numerous integrations of further enterprises into the company the conversion amounted to already 1972 5 billion Marks.

Gustav and Grete Schickedanz were active apart from their business activity also as promoters and initiators of numerous donations and for it with numerous honors were considered. It created the Gustav Schickedanz donation on 1 January 1965 on the occasion of its 70. Birthday.

The donation supports primarily for at least 5 years in Bavaria living students of all fields, if these are needy. Likewise many roads and mechanisms carry their names. He is honour citizen of the city

Gustav Schickedanz had two daughters, larva line Schickedanz and Louise Dedi.

Schickedanz was member of the NSDAP and councilman in It was arrested until 1948 as war criminals, its fortune was seized to a large extent and it was forbidden to it leading and entering its enterprise. On trust administration was among other things, not to the disadvantage of Schickedanz, in the hands of its sister Liesl Kissling. The united paper works, the brewery Geismann and further companies could Schickedanz due to its party membership during LV the regime the far under actual value of the formerly Jewish owners probably acquire (Arisierung).

Sources

• "The time" No. 24, 5 June 2003 author: George Etscheit,
• "The small book of the handkerchief" of Eugen Roth,
• Article in CICERO "the Weihnachtsfrau" by Thomas Schuler)

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