Paul Riegel

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Paul Riegel (born September 28, 1926 in Bonn ; † August 2, 2009 there ) was a German entrepreneur and athlete. He was married and has a daughter and three sons.

Life

In 1946, together with his brother Hans (1923–2013), 3½ years his senior, he took over the Haribo company founded in 1920 by his father, Hans Riegel senior . Paul Riegel was mainly responsible for production and technology until his death. Was known u. a. the liquorice snail winding machine he invented .

In order to keep the name of the company, Paul Riegel gave all three sons "Hans" as their first name as a precaution. As a possible successor to his brother Hans Riegel junior, his son Hans-Jürgen Riegel, who was head of the branch in France at the time, was in discussion in 2004 until the breakup between the two of them at the beginning of 2006. After the death of Paul Riegel in 2009, Hans Riegel ran the company together with his sons Hans Arndt Riegel and Hans Guido Riegel.

In addition to working in the company, he had time for a variety of sporting activities. Paul Riegel successfully took part in national and international competitions in badminton , motor boat races (1958–1962), sailing and Olympic rapid fire shooting. In badminton, he won silver in doubles and bronze in singles at the German championships held for the first time in 1953.

Success in motorboat racing

  • 1960 world record 112.50 km / h (flying kilometers), class D-pole
  • 1961 Vice European Champion class C-Stock in Traben-Trarbach
  • 1961 German master class C-pole
  • 1962 German master class C-pole

Stock = racing boat classes with petrol engines, C = 500 cm³, D = 700 cm³

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bonn mourns Haribo co-owner Paul Riegel - A great Bonn entrepreneur is dead
  2. ↑ Paul Riegel dies at the age of 82 in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (edition of August 4, 2009)
  3. ↑ a b The King of Gummy Bears , Part 3, in Manager Magazin on May 5, 2004 (accessed on August 6, 2009)
  4. ^ Andreas Böhme: Haribo boss Hans Riegel is 90: Still in the office almost every day ; derwesten.de, March 10, 2013
  5. ↑ List of successes from database query in the racing boat archive
  6. ↑ Paul Riegel died ; ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2009 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. in the General-Anzeiger (Bonn) on August 3, 2009. Retrieved on August 6, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
  7. ^ Josef Holthausen: Handbook of Badminton Sports , Frankfurt, Limpert 1956
  8. ↑ magazine stander (Herford), Heft 10/1961, pp 6
personal data
SURNAME Riegel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2009
Place of death Bonn