Company founder Hans Bürklin died on June 1 at the age of 94. The family mourns in a small circle.
Oberhaching - The Oberhaching industrial area on Grünwalder Weg has proven to be the ideal location for the electronics distributor Bürklin. Finally, you no longer had to comb through the floors up and down stairs like in Munich, but in 2011 found a single-storey building with a 10,000 square meter hall. At that time, company founder Hans Bürklin had already handed over the scepter to his two sons. On Monday, June 1st, he died at the age of 94. Son Ralph Bürklin: "He fell asleep peacefully, was never sick, but was very old."
The young Hans Bürklin studied business administration at Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University and also did his doctorate in the subject. He is a typical representative of the war generation. At the age of 17 Notabitur, drafted in 1942 and wounded returned from war. At that time his passion was electronics, more precisely radio.
Passion for electronics crafts
The deceased was an electronics hobbyist throughout his life. He also left behind a collection of equipment that his descendants hoarded. The historically interesting radio devices and receivers mainly in tube technology will get a small private museum at the location in Oberhaching. With specimens from the 50s to 70s. Ralph Bürklin: “I only really know my father at work in the office or at home in the craft cellar, where he taught us children to love electronics. We learned soldering and the importance of resistance and capacitor. ”Physics was not a problem.
Quickly founded my own company
After the war, Hans Bürklin joined his brother early in his parents' interior decorating and upholstery business on Blumenstrasse in Munich, now Prälat-Zistl-Strasse. In his own interest and a little bit of black market activity, he decided relatively quickly to open his own company in Schillerstrasse in 1954. He knew his way around well and had detailed knowledge especially about the electron tubes. That was an advantage. During his stay in America, he stumbled across the mail order system and began shipping his goods by post. For this he mainly appealed to commercial customers. It stayed at the Munich location for a long time, in the 90s they moved on to a house number. In the meantime, a branch in Düsseldorf and one in Saarbrücken were added. Not to forget that a marriage was also committed and three children were born, all of whom made their first physical attempts in the father's tinkering workshop.
2011 site in Oberhaching found
In the end, the space in Munich simply became too small and the Bürklins found the site in Oberhaching. In the meantime, father Hans had already retired and moved to Wasserburg on Lake Constance. Ralph Bürklin: “My father grew up there and he was drawn back there all his life. We were often there as children with grandma. ”He also died in this environment.
Son Ralph and his brother had long since started doing business. The sons' professional cycle is also coming to an end today, and the next generation is already in the starting blocks.