Karl Kunrath

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Karl Kunrath (born July 4, 1923 , † March 16, 2009 ) was a German jeweler who founded and led national and European trade associations.

Life

Karl Kunrath completed an apprenticeship as a businessman with a focus on the jewelry and watch trade. For many years he was a specialist retailer (since taking over his father's business after the war ) and managing director of a business consulting company in his place of residence, Bexbach . In the 1950s he founded a trade and industry association there. In mid-1962, Kunrath initiated the founding of the Saarland Trade Association (GVS) , an umbrella organization for small and medium-sized companies with the aim of improving their economic framework, and chaired it until 1990. In 1965 he began to publish a magazine for the self-employed, the Gewerbe-Report , initially from Bexbach, later as part of a publishing group based in Neunkirchen .

At an early stage, Kunrath relied on the idea of ​​an economically and politically united Europe and, in this, the scope for small and medium-sized enterprises that could result, which led to the establishment of the Confédération Européenne Des Indepondants (CEDI) in Luxembourg in June 1973 , which he chaired from 1979 to 1994 . The German section of the Federal Association of Germany (BVD) of the European Association of Self-Employed Persons , which began its work in the following year, he was also the founding father until 2000. He also set up the self-help organization of the self-employed (SHW) eV . For his enormous personal commitment and the resulting achievements for entrepreneurial independence, he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class , in 1984 and the European SME Award in 2001. Other honors include honorary presidency in BVD / CEDI and honorary chairmanship in SHW.

Awards

  • 1984: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2001: European SME Award “Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - Bridge between East and West” from the European Parliament in Brussels

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl Kunrath. Obituaries. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de. March 18, 2009, accessed July 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Kunrath, Karl, p. 255 .
  3. ^ Peter Vogt: Laudation from Dr. Peter Vogt on the occasion of the award ceremony. In: andorra-intern.com. Contact point of the European Association of Self-Employed in Andorra, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  4. ^ WVV Wirtschaftsberatungs- und Versicherungsvermittlungs-GmbH. Management. Notices. Commercial register announcement of [sic] 07.03.2002. In: moneyhouse.de. Moneyhouse Deutschland AG, March 7, 2002, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Kuni Ludwig Both: The European Association of the Self-employed mourns its founder Karl Kunrath. (PDF; 102 KB) Press release. In: esd-ev.de. European Association of the Independent Federal Association of Germany, March 17, 2009, accessed on July 13, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kunrath, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jeweler and association founder
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1923
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2009