Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau
Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau (born May 23, 1936 in Mettlach ) was the penultimate chairman of the board of the Saarland Villeroy & Boch AG (1985-1994) from the Boch family dynasty and from 1994 to May 30, 2008, he was the second deputy chairman of the supervisory board. He was then made an honorary member of the Supervisory Board for life.
Life
Both his grandfather (1875–1932), who died four years before he was born, and his father (1906–1988) carried the first name Luitwin. Luitwin Gisbert was the eighth generation of the family business. He studied economics at the University of St. Gallen in 1961 , had several study visits to Canada, the USA, Japan, India and other countries and initially took over the management of the Villeroy & Boch branch in Hamburg, and later that of the plant in Lübeck-Dänischburg. From 1972 he became a managing partner.
From 1985 to 1994, i.e. immediately before the company was converted into a stock corporation , he was chairman of the management board of Villeroy & Boch AG. The first diversification models and concepts for “ceramic harmony”, which later formed the basis for the concept of “My House of Villeroy & Boch”, can be traced back to him. It was also his entrepreneurial decision to leave the capital in family ownership by transforming the limited partnership into a stock corporation in 1987.
As a descendant of the Lorraine company founder François Boch, Luitwin Gisbert is committed to the German-French-Luxembourg tradition of the company. Reconciliation with his European neighbors after the Second World War was a matter of course for him, as it also promoted economic and human ties. The assumption of various tasks and offices at European level is therefore to be regarded as consistent. For example in the Cérame-Unie, the umbrella organization of the ceramic industry of the EU, of which he was president from 1985, in the German delegation of the CET (Association of Tile Manufacturers EU) or since 1994 as a board member of the German ceramic society. Former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl described him in 1998 as a “European from the very beginning” as part of the company's 250th anniversary. The French government awarded Luitwin Gisbert von Boch the title Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) for his services to Franco-German friendship in 1995 .
Boch was active in the Saarland for a number of interest groups and committees: He was Vice President of the Saarland Industrial Association (SIV) and from 1972 the merged Association of Saarland Business Associations (VSU) . From 1976, von Boch was also a member of the Advisory Board for Economic and Structural Issues , the Location and Transport Working Committee, and a representative of the shareholders on the Saar-Bergwerke Supervisory Board .
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Orders and decorations
- Knight of the Legion of Honor (1995)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit (2005)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatrix Adler: Wallerfanger stoneware. Self-published, 1995, ISBN 3-921236-72-X , p. 52 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boch-Galhau, Luitwin Gisbert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boch, LG of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, honorary member of the Supervisory Board of Villeroy & Boch AG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mettlach |