Ludwig Rinn

Ludwig Rinn (born March 17, 1870 in Heuchelheim ; † October 30, 1958 ) was a German entrepreneur.

Career

One of numerous cigar factories - here Wißmar

Rinn was born to a farmer. He attended the secondary school in Giessen and completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Heuchelheim cigar factory Busch & Mylius . In 1895 he founded the cigar factory Rinn & Cloos AG together with the wood merchant and councilor Heinrich Wilhelm Cloos from Nidda . After his retirement in 1917, he took over its sole management. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Rinn & Cloos was the largest manufacturer of cigars , cigarillo and tobacco products in Germany with over 5,000 employees at some 40 locations.

In 1932 he auctioned the bankruptcy estate of the Gießener Maschinenfabrik Heyligenstaedt AG and ran it from 1934 under the name of Heyligenstaedt & Comp. Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH continues.

In 1948 he acquired the Minox camera factory , originally located in Riga and newly founded in Wetzlar in 1945 ; He moved the production facility to the premises of the Rinn & Cloos cigar factory in Heuchelheim.

From 1930 to 1933 he was President of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry . With the DC circuit of the Chambers of Commerce in 1933, he resigned from the office, but was from 1946 to 1953 again president of the chamber.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary citizen of the city of Giessen
• Honorary citizen of the community of Heuchelheim
• Honorary Senator of the University of Giessen
• Honorary President of the IHK Giessen

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .