Robert Wilhelm GREEFF (NAMED DE GREEFF)

1853 - 1930  (77 years)

• Name	Robert Wilhelm GREEFF (NAMED DE GREEFF)
  Born	5 Jan 1853	Koln
  Gender	Male
  Died	11 May 1930	Bromley, Kent
  Person ID	I120	Greeff in Germany
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2008

  
  

  Father	Robert GREEFF,   b. 7 Mar 1816, Coln ,   d. 21 May 1889, Frankfurt Am Main  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Laura ANDRE,   b. 8 December1825, Dusseldorf ,   d. 17 May 1909, Weimar  (Age 83 years)
  Married	20 Dec 1849	Hanau
  Family ID	F34	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Toni WEINTRAUT,   b. 13 Dec 1868,   d. 10 Jun 1931, Bromley, Kent  (Age 62 years)
  Married	27 Jun 1886	Orpington
  Children	+ 1. Doris DE GREEFF,   b. 19 Sep 1889, Orpington ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Elsie DE GREEFF,   b. 16 Nov 1890, Orpington ,   d. 19 Jan 1923  (Age 32 years)   3. Robert DE GREEFF,   b. 3 Aug 1892,   d. Jan 1901  (Age 8 years) + 4. Eduard DE GREEFF,   b. 1894 + 5. Janet DE GREEFF,   b. 28 Dec 1898, Bromley, Kent ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Toni (Tony) DE GREEFF,   b. 1900,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2008
  Family ID	F50	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He completed his apprenticeship in Frankfurt am Main, where his parents were living at the time. Then he worked in Zurich and Bremen, where he had the chance to enter the chemical industry. Thereupon he went to England where he and a friend started the firm "Nolling & Greeff" which was short-lived because it did not promise sucess. In the year 1881 he founded his new business "R.W. Greeff & Comp. Ltd." which he brought to a considerable height. It became a global firm that was well regarded in the chemical industry and especially advanced in the manufacture of quinine. Although his work prospered, the World War caused him to retire more and more from his life's work so that his firm was transformed into a public (Limited) company. His testament provided several endowments from his great wealth. R W Greeff & Co, London