Bosch (family)

The Bosch family is a German family of entrepreneurs and industrialists . The most famous members of this family are Robert Bosch and Carl Bosch .

history

Restaurant Zur Krone in Albeck

In the 19th century, the Bosch family belonged to the local farming upper class in Albeck, northeast of Ulm . From 1736 to 1869 she ran the Zur Krone inn . The innkeeper Servatius Bosch (1816–1880) was unusually educated for a man of his class, attached great importance to a good education for his children and was a Freemason . With his wife Marie Margarethe Bosch geb. Dölle (1818–1898) he had twelve children among them were Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch and Robert Bosch . The family was of Protestant denomination.

Robert Bosch was a leading German industrialist , engineer and inventor . He founded Robert Bosch GmbH in 1886 . Robert's nephew and Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch's son Carl Bosch was a chemist , technician and industrialist who ran BASF and IG Farben . Together with Fritz Haber , he developed the Haber-Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia. In 1931, Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contribution to the discovery and development of high pressure chemical processes . Robert Bosch jun. , the son of Robert Bosch, was instrumental in founding the Robert Bosch Foundation in 1964 , which holds the majority of the shares in Robert Bosch GmbH with a 92% stake. The remaining 8% are held by members of the family. Together with his sister Eva Madelung geb. Bosch he also founded the Heidehof Foundation in 1964. In the list of the 500 richest Germans of Manager Magazin the Bosch family occupied in 2013, No. 33 with an estimated net worth of three billion euros.

Tribe list

Carl Bosch

Robert Bosch

Servatius Bosch (1816–1880) ⚭ Marie Margarethe Dölle (1818–1898)
- Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch (1843–1904) ⚭ Paula Liebst (1851–1930)
  - Carl Bosch (1874–1940) ⚭ Else Schilbach
    - Carl Bosch Jr.
    - Ingeborg Bosch
- Robert Bosch (1861–1942), ⚭ (I) Anna Kayser (1864–1949); ⚭ (II) Margarete Woerz (1888–1979)
  - (I) Margarete Bosch (1888–1972)
  - (I) Paula Bosch (1889-1974) ⚭ Friedrich Zundel (1875-1948), who in his first marriage with Clara Zetkin was married
    - Georg Zundel (1931-2007)
  - (I) Robert Bosch (1891–1921)
  - (II) Robert Bosch jun. (1928–2004) ⚭ Irmgard von Graevenitz (* 1927), daughter of Fritz von Graevenitz
    - Christof Bosch (* 1959)
    - Ise Bosch (* 1964)
  - (II) Eva Bosch (* 1931) ⚭ Gero Madelung (* 1928), son of Georg Madelung

literature

Theodor Heuss: Bosch, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , pp. 479-481 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Klemm : Bosch, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 478 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ They are the richest Germans. The richest Germans. In: manager-magazin.de. October 8, 2013, accessed February 5, 2016 .
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[1] They are the richest Germans. The richest Germans. In: manager-magazin.de. October 8, 2013, accessed February 5, 2016 .

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