Richard Wolf (entrepreneur)

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Richard Wolf (born December 19, 1906 in Berlin ; † April 16, 1958 in Pforzheim ) was a German industrialist and founder of Richard Wolf GmbH .

Richard Wolf was born on December 19, 1906 in Berlin to the industrialists Georg and Elisabeth Wolf. In 1922 he started as an apprentice in his parents' company, Georg Wolf GmbH, in Berlin, which at the time was one of the leading endoscope manufacturers. In 1937 he received individual power of attorney and after the death of his father in 1938 became a partner and managing director. He stayed that way until the company was sequestered in 1945 .

On January 15, 1947, Richard Wolf and his wife Annemarie (* May 3, 1901, † January 3, 1969) founded the new company Richard Wolf GmbH in Knittlingen , east of Karlsruhe . To date, the company has developed into one of the world's leading manufacturers of endoscopes and endoscopic systems.

Shortly before her death in 1968, Annemarie Wolf established the Richard and Annemarie Wolf Foundation. It is committed to promoting medical science, especially the disciplines that work with endoscopes, as well as supporting hospital and nursing organizations. Only six months after her death was the foundation approved by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture on July 15, 1969.

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  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Excerpt from the commercial register with a note of Richard Wolf's date of death on Stimme.net (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.stimme.net
  2. ↑ Dissertation on the website of the Free University of Berlin (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  3. ↑ Extract from the commercial register of the Maulbronn registry court of December 5, 1958, HRB10
  4. ↑ Insa Schiffmann: It's not just doctors who look into the tube: Endoscopes are also used in industry / The market is competitive.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Section Youth & Economics. January 4, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jugendundwirtschaft.de  
  5. ↑ Regional Council Karlsruhe, Department 1, Section 14, Foundations in the Regional District Karlsruhe, Register of Purposes, Science: Richard and Annemarie Wolf Foundation ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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. (PDF; 14 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  6. ↑ Data sheet of the Richard-und-Annemarie-Wolf-Stiftung ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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. , Ministry of Education Baden-Württemberg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp.baden-wuerttemberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and founder of Richard Wolf GmbH
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1958
Place of death Pforzheim , Germany