Alfred Carl Toepfer (* 13. July 1894 in Altona with Hamburg; "† 8 October 1993 in Hamburg) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the largest private donation of Germany.

Toepfers enterprises with head office in Hamburg operated among other things world-wide trade with agricultural products, in particular grain.

1931 it created the donation F. Vth S., which assigns Vth S. annually numerous prices and scholarships today as a Alfred Toepfer donation F. for the promotion of the European unit.

The entrepreneur was a pioneer of the landscape and nature protection. A special request of Toepfers was the preservation of the heath and the creation of nature parks in Germany. This succeeded starting from 1956 with announcing the nature park program in the aula of the University of Bonn as well as Federal President Theodor Heuss.

Into the 1990er years the role of Toepfers and its donation was lit up critically in the time of the national socialism. Swiss science historian Michael pale shrubs wrote, Toepfer had along-financed the official cultural policy, and its donation pursued pangermanistische goals as "“cultural fifth column"” for the time after the Second World War. The city Strasbourg quit thereupon 1996 co-operation with the donation up. The Alfred Toepfer donation created 1997 an independent historian commission under the direction of Hans Mommsen, which published 2000 an anthology with a critical stocktaking of Toepfers biography and donation history. The commission came in the end, Toepfer the central goals and motives of the national socialism, in particular the Antisemitismus, did not divide and in particular not at arisiertem property did not enrich themselves.

Literature

• Alfred Toepfer. Founder and buyer. Components of a biography - critical stocktaking. Given change by George circle, Gerd Krumeich, Henri Menudier, Hans Mommsen and Arnold Sywottek. Christians, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7672-1373-7

Related links

• Alfred Toepfer donation F.V.S.
• Toepfer international

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