Paul Carl Beiersdorf

Paul Carl Beiersdorf ( born March 26, 1836 in Neuruppin, † December 17, 1896 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist and founder.

Life

Beiersdorf completed a pharmacist teaching and studied in Berlin pharmacy. After his approval, he took over in Moscow the management of a technical factory and was co-owner of an optical company. From 1864 he lived in Berlin and led pharmacies in Bärwalde and Grünberg.

In 1880, Beiersdorf had settled as a pharmacist in Hamburg. Besides, he experimented on pharmaceutical preparations. In close cooperation with the dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna, he founded the paving business and received for the Guttaperchapflastermulle 1882 his first patent. The date of the patent is now the founding date of the company Beiersdorf AG. In 1890 he sold as a result of the suicide of his then 16 jährigens son Carl Albert ( who shot himself because he remained seated at school), the company that kept its name, for 60,000 marks to Oscar Troplowitz. At that time, the company employed eight workers in addition to the owner, two clerks and a laboratory assistant.

Beiersdorf lost his fortune to speculators and failed a professional restart in the pharmacy sector. After that he committed suicide with poison.