Hermannsdorfer biography
Hermannsdorfer biography facts!
In 2016, Herrmannsdorf celebrated its 30th year as a company. Karl Schweisfurth has been the managing partner for the last 20 years.
Hermannsdorfer biography
Today, we employ about 200 people, and more than 100 farmers throughout the region supply animals for our slaughterhouse.
The story of Herrmannsdorf is bound up with our philosophy. Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth, the Father of Karl Schweisfurth, owned a major European meat-products company for many years.
Herta had six production sites, annual sales of over DM 1 billion, and more than 5,000 employees. During the 1950s, he played a large role in the industrialization of meat production in Europe, initiating revolutionary changes.( They slaugtered about 20 000 pigs a week; today Tönies slaughter the same in one day!!) His inspiration came from a visit to the famous slaughterhouses in Chicago.
Starting in the 1980s, he was plagued by doubts about this form of business: the processes had become so standardized that demand no longer existed for a master butche