Eberhard Günther (entrepreneur)

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Eberhard Günther (born May 9, 1945 in Annaberg ; † July 9, 2015 in London ) was a German entrepreneur. He was the managing director of Foron GmbH, where the first CFC- free refrigerator was developed.

Life

In cooperation with the environmental organization led by Günther Foron Hausgeräte GmbH developed Greenpeace the first refrigerator without ozone-damaging CFCs or climate-damaging HFCs . Instead, the so-called Dortmund mixture developed by Harry Rosin , among others, was used. In 1993 Foron was the first recipient of the German Environment Prize from the German Federal Environment Foundation .

After Foron went bankrupt , Eberhard Günther founded Günther engineering GmbH in 1997.

With the prize money from the German Environment Prize of the DBU from 1993, Günther initiated the Foron Foundation “Besser Leben”, which organizes practical seminars for students at German universities in the fields of refrigeration and thermodynamics.

Appreciation

"Against all odds, he set environmentally friendly accents in the household appliance sector throughout his life, which prove that environmental compatibility and technical implementation are not mutually exclusive."

- Heinrich Bottermann , German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) : press release of July 24, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Günther's obituary notice. Annaberger Zeitung ( Free Press ), July 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ First refrigerator without CFC. MAZ, January 20, 2019
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) dated September 25, 1998, accessed on November 12, 2019 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbu.de
  4. ↑ http://www.kulturserver.de/-/einrichtungen/detail/37375
  5. ↑ https://www.dbu.de/123artikel36299_2442.html
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2015
Place of death London