From 1909 he worked for the Thyssen company in Mülheim an der Ruhr as a senior engineer and head of the department.
During the World War I, he served his military service from 1914, until 1917 as the chief man and leader of an artillery battery.
In 1956 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit medal and in the same year, the Pfleiderer Institute for Fluid Machinery (abbr.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, at the VDI conference in Hydraulic Machinery, the Carl Pfleiderer Memorial meeting was held at the TU Braunschweig between 14 and 16 October 1981.
Carl Pfleiderer, a meeting took place from 3 July to 15 September 2006 with an exhibition in the Braunschweig University Library to celebrate his life and achievements.