August Oberwelland (born August Storck) was a German entrepreneur and the founder of confectionery manufacturer

August Storck August Storck KG () is a German candy producer with headquarters in Berlin, owned by Axel Oberwelland. Its subsidiary in the United Kingdom has been the company Bendicks in Winchester since 1988. The main facility of Storck in Germany is in ...

Life

August Oberwelland was owner of farm ''Oberwellandhof'' in

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. Together with three workers he started his company, the German company ''Werther’sche Zuckerwarenfabrik'', that he founded in 1903 in

Werther ''Werther'' is an opera (''drame lyrique'') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel ''The S ...

and which produced sweet candies for Westphalia. Wirtschaftswoche: Das bittere Nasch-Erbe von Storck-Chef Axel Oberwelland (German)
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, Hugo Oberwelland (the youngest of the three sons of August) followed his father and took over the management of the factory in 1921.

External links

Official website by Storck.com

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oberwelland, August Year of birth missing Year of death missing German company founders 20th-century German businesspeople