Georg Dassel

Georg Anton Dassel (/dɑːssəl/; dass-əl; 22 December 1852 – 8 March 1934)[1] was a German industrialist, marble manufacturer, philanthropist and politician.

Dassel was the majority owner of the Westphalian Marble Works (German: Westfälische Marmorwerke AG).

Rittenhaus & Company, an international textile concern, active in Turkey, Africa and India.

He took a stake in a marble company and opened a grinding shop in Reichenbach, from which Deutsche Steinindustrie AG emerged.

Finally, he became self-employed by taking over the operations of the Westfälische Marmorwerke AG in Allagen (“Victoriawerke”), which had been shut down for a number of years, and which he reopened in 1886.