Philipp Dessauer (20 June 1837 – 19 August 1900) was a "Kgl. Bayer. Kommerzienrat" (Royal Bavarian Commerce Advisor) and founder of the paper factory ''Weißpapier- und Cellulosefabrik Aschaffenburg'' in Aschaffenburg.
Career
Philipp Dessauer was born in
Aschaffenburg, the son of Franz Johann Dessauer and Alberta (Berta) Katharina Theresia Molitor.
After completing
Gymnasium, Dessauer joined in 1852 his father's coloured paper factory, which he headed from 1866 as director. The war of 1870/71 left a shortage of white paper. Therefore, he founded in 1872 a factory for white paper.
He died in Aschaffenburg.
Awards and honors
* Board of Aschaffenburg community representative
* Chairman of the District Board of Trade, factories and commercial
* Member of the Bavarian Railway Council
* Committee member of the Wittelsbach family foundation
* Co-founder and Chairman of the Association of German pulp factory
* Knight of the Orden vom Hl. Michael (Order of St Michael) 4th Class
* Knight of the Königl. Preußischer Kronenorden (Royal Prussian Crown Order) 4th Class
* Honorary citizen of Damm (now part of Aschaffenburg)
On the occasion of his 175th birthday, a celebration took place in the Ridingersaal of the Aschaffenburg castle.
Descendants
A son,
Hans Dessauer
Hans Dessauer senior (24 June 1869 – 23 October 1926) was a German industrialist and politician.
Dessauer was born in Aschaffenburg in a family of industrialists who owned the Aschaffenburger Buntpapierfabrik, a leading coloured paper factory ...
, succeeded him in 1900 in the management of the company. The youngest son was
Friedrich Dessauer
Friedrich Dessauer (19 July 1881 – 16 February 1963) was a physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.
Friedrich Dessauer was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany. As a young man he was fascinated by new discover ...
. Grandchildren were
John H. Dessauer
John H. Dessauer, also known as Hans Dessauer, (13 May 1905 – 12 August 1993) was a German-American chemical engineer and an innovator in developing xerography. He was instrumental in turning a $7 million company of the 1930s into Xerox, a bil ...
, who went to the United States in 1936, and his brother, the producer, art collector and professor
Guido Dessauer
Guido Dessauer (7 November 1915 – 13 January 2012) was a German physicist, pioneer in paper engineering, business executive, writer, art collector, patron of the arts, and academic. Born into a family of paper industrialists, he worked as an ae ...
. A granddaughter, , was a member of the Bavarian parliament from 1962 to 1974. A great-granddaughter,
Ursula Schleicher, is a member of the parliament of the European Union.
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19th-century German businesspeople
People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
German company founders
1837 births
1900 deaths