Kuno Kämper

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Karl Kuno Kämper (born April 11, 1922 in Lüdenscheid ; † August 25, 2012 ) was a German engineer and entrepreneur.

Life

Kämper came as the son of the factory owner Karl Kämper and his wife Ella, nee. Gembruch, to the world. He started school at Easter 1928 and attended elementary school up to seventh grade. Then his parents decided to send him to high school. He worked on the curriculum of classes I-III and passed the entrance exam for the fourth class of the Zeppelin high school in Lüdenscheid at Easter 1935.

In January 1940 he was drafted into the air force and promoted to officer in 1943. In the winter semester of 1943/44 he was given leave to study at the Technical University of Dresden . After his discharge from the Wehrmacht in May 1945, he began practical training for further studies. In the summer semester of 1946 he was admitted to the Technical University of Hanover . There he passed the preliminary diploma examination in 1948 and the main examination in manufacturing and machine tool engineering in 1950. After the main examination, at the suggestion of his professor Otto Kienzle, he received a scholarship from the Emergency Association of German Science , which enabled him to carry out research on press fits. He completed this work in 1952 at the Institute for Machine Tools at the TH Hannover. The results flowed into his doctoral thesis The adhesive forces in conical press fits , which he presented in August 1954 in Hanover.

Entrepreneurial activities

Even before his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. he joined his father's company, Lenzkämper GmbH & Co. KG Drahtformtechnik in Lüdenscheid, and has been a co-owner since 1954. He made the first contacts with the automotive industry, which led to orders for the VW Beetle in the 1960s . Under his aegis, seat belts were manufactured for Daimler-Benz at the end of the 1950s , and in the early 1970s the development of deflection fittings for seat belts, which were used in the first VW Golf , began. The company, founded in 1920, is owned by the founding families Karin L. Lenz and Kuno Kämper.

Association activities

From 1964 to 1985 Kämper was chairman of the employers' association of the metal and electrical industry in Lüdenscheid eV Since 1956 he was a founding member and first spokesman for the Lüdenscheid Wirtschaftsjunioren, as well as state spokesman for North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1958 to 1961 he represented the junior economists as one of the federal spokesmen with responsibility for international work at European conferences and the JCI world congresses in Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong and Paris. In 1961 he was named a JCI Senator.

Honors

On April 21, 1982, Kämper was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, for his life's work .

Fonts

  • The adhesive forces in conical press fits , Diss. Techn. Hochsch. Hanover 1954, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1957

literature

  • Tanja Bessler-Worbs, Karl-Peter Ellerbrock: Reconstruction and the economic miracle in South Westphalia: the iron and metal processing industry in the SIHK district of Hagen after the Second World War; a documentation of the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation and the SIHK zu Hagen , Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-00401-1 , p. 162 ff.
  • CV in his dissertation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Kuno Kämper , obituary of the Lions Club Lüdenscheid-Lennetal in the club magazine Lion , July / August 2013, p. 104, online
  2. ↑ Reconstruction and the economic miracle in South Westphalia ... , p. 104
  3. ↑ Rolf Bähner: 75th anniversary: ​​steep ascent after start with hooks and eyes , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 20, 2010, accessed September 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Photo session Baskets Lüdenscheid 1st men at Lenzkämper ( memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Baskets Lüdenscheid @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sites.google.com
  5. ↑ agv.de/verband , website of the employers' association of the metal and electrical industry Lüdenscheid eV
  6. ^ Lüdenscheid: Continuity as a sign of reliability , Lüdenscheider Nachrichten , June 25, 2010
  7. ↑ 50 Years of the Lüdenscheid Wirtschaftsjunioren , website of the Lüdenscheid Wirtschaftsjunioren, September 16, 2006
  8. ↑ Reconstruction and the economic miracle in South Westphalia ... , p. 162 ff.
  9. ↑ Dr.-Ing. Kuno Kämper 85 years old ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Association of JCI Senators of Germany @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wjdsenatoren.de
  10. ↑ Senator history ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Website of the Association of JCI Senators of Germany @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wjdsenatoren.de
  11. ↑ The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , website of the city of Lüdenscheid
personal data
SURNAME Kämper, Kuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kämper, Karl Kuno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2012