Victor Lenel
Victor Lenel ( born June 18, 1838 in Mannheim, † October 17, 1917 ) was a German industry pioneer.
Life and work
He was a son of Moritz Lenel. After attending high school in Mannheim, he studied at Heidelberg University and joined his father in 1866 in a trading company, of which he took over after his father's death and his brother Alfred, and this in " Gebr Lenel " renamed.
In 1873 Victor and Alfred Lenel with the merchant Friedrich Julius Bensinger ( 1841-91 ) and the Bank of Hohenems & Sons in Mannheim the " Rheinische hard rubber wares Factory", was produced in the soft rubber since 1884 and since 1886 celluloid.
On March 27, 1885, the factory in Neckarau was destroyed by fire. After the reconstruction, which took place from April 1 to December 31, 1885 it operated under the name " Rhenish Rubber and Celluloidfabrik ." This employed in 1907 around 500 operational staff and 15 administrative staff. Added to this was 1886, the " factory waterproof laundry Lenel, Bensinger & Co "., the " Rhenish rubber and Celluloid factory " developed the blow -press method for plastics for the production of doll heads and table tennis balls made of celluloid. , 1899 turtle was retroactively protected until 1889 as a legal trademark. exhibition tanks should and the colouration screening of celluloid - products remembered.
As of 1875 was Viktor Lenel for the National Liberal member of the citizens' committee, a judge and member of several supervisory boards of public companies, including, inter alia 1899-1905 Chairman of the Hamburg -Mannheimer insurance. From 1898 to 1903 Victor Lenel was vice-president, then president until 1911 the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce. From 1905 to 1909 he was the first Jewish member of the first chamber of the Baden Estates. After the death of his father in 1876 he founded with his siblings the student support " Moritz- and -Caroline - Lenel Foundation " and on the occasion of his 70th birthday, a children's convalescent home, the Victor - Lenel - pin in Neckargemuend - steered the necessary ground for the city Neckargemuend at - that was 1911, the administration of the city of Mannheim passed. After his death he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim.
His son Richard Lenel led the family business continued until 1938.