Ewald Marquardt
Ewald Marquardt (* 1931 in Rietheim ) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and founder of a foundation.
Career
After graduating from high school in Tuttlingen, he began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University in Stuttgart, which he graduated with a diploma in 1957. He first worked as a patent engineer at the electrical appliance manufacturer AEG in Berlin and Essen. From 1962 he completed a three-year postgraduate course in economics at RWTH Aachen University . In 1965 he joined the family-owned company J. und J. Marquardt KG as a managing partner . There he was initially head of the product development division, then the finance division and finally management spokesman. In 1998 he withdrew from the operative business, but continued to influence the company's development as an advisory board member, supervisory board member and chairman of the supervisory board.
In December 1998 he founded the Ewald Marquardt private foundation for science, technology, art and culture . Projects and institutions in the non-profit and benevolent sector are financed, including scholarships for students and the Future Prize, which has been awarded every two years since 2007 for ideas and innovative designs in the field of electrical switching, control and regulation technology.
Honors
- Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2006: Staufer Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts
- Free entrepreneurship - Rietheim-Weilheim: J. and J. Marquardt, 1999
- On the ethos of the free entrepreneur - Rietheim-Weilheim: Marquardt, 2006
- Beyond the day - Rietheim-Weilheim: Verlag Robert Gessler, 2011
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| SURNAME | Marquardt, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and founder of a foundation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rietheim |