Hermann Heinrich Schefter

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http://mengelmann64.magix.net/public/Schefter.htm - (Google translate) "Hermann Heinrich Schefter was born on June 8, 1895 in Moravská Třebová (Mährisch Trübau). In 1901 he came to Zábřeh (Hohenstadt), Šumperk district, where his father Hermann Schefter built a silk goods factory. In 1914, the then 19-year-old volunteered for the native Infantry Regiment No. 93 and in the spring of 1916 for aviation. In the summer of 1918 he was badly wounded and shot down as a lieutenant in air combat. During the war he received numerous war decorations.. In 1923 he took over his father's factories in Hohenstadt and Mährisch Trübau together with his brother Oskar. The silk weaving mills to which later the factories in Mähr. Schönberg, Bodenstadt and Ludwigsdorf were added, as well as 40 shops in Moravia and a worldwide export organization, were expanded into a large company employing up to 1900 people in a joint, tireless work.

Before his marriage to Grete Gröger of Šternberk (Sternberg), Hermann H. Schefter studied traveling abroad, particularly North and South America. and a world tour in 1927. He also had other interests, literary and political. Several books were published by him..

Hermann Schefter managed to get out in the summer of 1946, first to Austria and then to Switzerland, where he managed two factories for a local company. In 1950, Hermann Schefter family emigrated from Switzerland to the USA, where they were naturalized in 1955. Of the three daughters, two, Erica and Helga, are married in Switzerland, one daughter, Lore, and son Henry in America.. Hermann Schefter has 14 grandchildren and only retired from his business at the end of 1972.