Leopold Arnsperger (businessman)

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Leopold Arnsperger (born May 4, 1906 in Bruchsal , † November 27, 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German businessman .

Life

Arnsperger comes from an old civil servant family. From 1945 he was a member of the board and from 1949 chairman of the board of the drug manufacturer Knoll AG in Ludwigshafen.

He was a board member of the Association of the Chemical Industry and the Federal Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry . On April 1, 1960 he was elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Palatinate .

From 1958 he was the Colombian electoral consul for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

Honors

  • 1956: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Honorary citizen of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Knight of the New Year's Order
  • 1966: Silver coat of arms of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of the Palatinate personalities. Edenkoben: Hennig, 1998
  • Karl Ritter von Klimesch: heads of politics. Augsburg: Naumann, 1953