Career
He had two daughters, Madeleine Schickedanz and Louise Dedi. Schickedanz came from a modest background. After attending realschule in his hometown of Fürth, he absolved a commercial apprenticeship.
He registered his first enterprise in 1923 and in 1927 registered the mail order company Quelle, later Europe"s largest mail-order house.
In 1935 Schickedanz acquired the rights to the Tempo brand and the paper company Vereinigte Papierwerke in Nuremberg of former Jewish property for a very low price (arization). He was later rehabilitated and in 1952 was awarded a "citizen"s medal" by the city of Fürth.
In 1959 he was made an honorary citizen, the equivalent of being given the keys to the city. After numerous acquisitions, Quelle"s group sales reached 5 billion Deutschmarks by 1972.