Frits Philips

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Frits Philips (1971)

Frederik Jacques Philips (born April 16, 1905 in Eindhoven , Netherlands ; † December 5, 2005 there , called Frits Philips) was a Dutch industrialist .

Life

Frits Philips was the only son of Anton Philips and nephew of Gerard Philips , co-founder of Philips & Co. in Eindhoven (from 1912: NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken ). From 1923 to 1929 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Delft , where he received his doctorate. He met his future wife Sylvia van Lennep while studying in Delft. After completing his military service, his father gave him responsibility in the company at the age of 25. In 1939, Anton Philips handed over the chairmanship of Philips 'Gloeilampenfabrieken to Frans Otten, Frits Philips ' brother-in-law. From 1961 to 1971 Frits Philips was the last company president with the founding name and created an electronics company with more than 160,000 employees from the former incandescent lamp factory. Under his aegis, the compact cassette was introduced worldwide from 1963 and the production of integrated circuits started at Philips. Today (2008) Philips is considered to be the market leader, for example in radio frequency identification (RFID) chips.

He lived in the Netherlands all his life , even when part of his family left the country during the German occupation during World War II . Under the National Socialist rule ( Reichskommissariat Netherlands ) he was interned in a concentration camp for several months in 1943 .

Frits Philips was very popular in the Netherlands and especially in his hometown Eindhoven due to his social commitment and received the Eredivisie championship trophy (highest soccer league in the Netherlands) in April 2005 as a token of the honor of Mark van Bommel . The Philips stadium of the PSV Eindhoven club is named after the group. Furthermore, the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips in Eindhoven was named after him.

Frits Philips died 13 years after his wife Sylvia van Lennep-Philips at the age of one hundred from complications from pneumonia . He was buried on the Gemeentelijke begraafplaats Woense in Eindhoven. After his death, PSV Eindhoven decided that in the Philips Stadium in Block D the seat in row 22, seat 43, on the south stand should remain vacant in memory of Frits Philips.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Frits Philips
  2. ↑ psv.nl: Nog zeven weken tot onthulling beeld Meneer Frits article from February 22, 2007 (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Philips, Frits
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philips, Frederik Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Eindhoven
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2005
Place of death Eindhoven