Rudolf Loh

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Rudolf Loh (born December 8, 1913 in Wetzlar ; † April 21, 1971 in Haiger ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Rudolf Loh was born as the fifth of six children to his parents Georg and Anna Margaretha Loh. His father ran his own carpentry workshop , which he expanded into a furniture factory. Rudolf Loh grew up in a Christian home. After attending the Goethe High School in Wetzlar , he completed various internships. From 1933 to 1935 he studied at the state mechanical engineering school in Cologne . In order to be able to study, he had to join a Nazi organization and decided on the technical emergency service, which was later incorporated into the SA . After completing his studies, Loh left the SA in 1937. As an engineer, he took over the position of technical manager in the metal goods factory "Siegas", which his father had acquired for him and a brother. In 1939 he was called up for military service and then served as a soldier on the Western Front after the outbreak of World War II .

On June 14, 1941, he married Amalie Karoline Irene Horn. The couple had four children. The eldest son, Joachim Loh , was born in 1942 during the war. The second son, Friedhelm Loh , was born in 1946. Her daughter Annette died shortly after giving birth in 1950. In 1952 the daughter Christiane-Margarethe was born.

In 1942 Loh was critically injured by a shot in the lung during the Russian campaign . After his recovery in a lung sanatorium and service in a convalescent unit, he was transferred as an engineer to Peenemünde on Usedom and from then on worked on the development of the V2 rockets under Wernher von Braun . On August 5, 1947, he received a discharge certificate from the denazification authorities .

After the war, Loh returned to the joint company in Siegen. When tensions arose between the brothers regarding the management of the company, Rudolf Loh broke away from the partnership with “Siegas” on April 1, 1947 in order to found his own company in Haiger , the metal goods factory Rudolf Loh GmbH , which in 1963 employed around 280 people and was directed after his death by his son Joachim. He began producing medical furniture and metal beds in a former cement factory, and from 1960 the company began producing aluminum ladders. In 1961 he founded the Rittal factory in a former weaving mill in Rittershausen , which was later continued with the series production of standard control cabinets by his son Friedhelm in the Friedhelm Loh Group .

Volunteering

Loh was involved in the Dillenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry , the "Iron, Sheet Metal and Metal Processing Industry of Hesse " and in the business committee of the AOK Dillenburg. From 1968 to 1971 he was on the board of the Evangeliumsrundfunks (ERF) and until then also headed its economic committee. From 1958 he was in the general assembly, from 1959 on the advisory board (treasurer and head of the economic committee) and from 1963 until his death on the board of the mission house of the Wiedenest Bible School . Loh belonged to a congregation of brothers in Haiger.

Loh family

Rudolf Loh was a brother of the entrepreneur Wilhelm Loh , of Anna Schulte, wife of the publisher Hermann Schulte , of Ernst Loh, with whose son Klaus the singer Doris Loh is married, as well as of Martha and Hermann Loh. Rudolf Loh is the father of the entrepreneurs Friedhelm Loh and Joachim Loh as well as Margarete Hühnerbein, the long-time chairman of the Christian Media Association KEP and wife of Pastor Hartmut Hühnerbein (first married to Bernhard Kupsch and known as Margarete Kupsch-Loh during this time). After Rudolf Loh's death, his widow Irene (1919-2015) married the long-time chairman of the German and European Evangelical Alliance Wilhelm Gilbert and became known under the name Irene Gilbert-Loh, among other things, as a co-founder of the Evangelical news agency Idea . The Christian songwriter Christiane Loh , née Schmuck, was married to Sieghard Loh, a second nephew of the entrepreneurial brothers Friedhelm and Joachim, as well as the by-related singer Doris Loh.

literature

  • Daniel J. Hanke: The Rudolf-Loh-Hof. Environmental education in Gnadenthal . Ed .: Environmental education work of the Gnadenthal community. Gnadenthal Community, Gandenthal 2000.
  • Irene Gilbert-Loh: Everything has its time. Memoirs 1919–1947 . Frank-Michael Rommert publishing house, Gummersbach 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Irene Gilbert-Loh: Everything has its time. Memoirs 1919–1947. P. 150.
  2. ^ Daniel J. Hanke: Environmental education work of the Gnadenthal community. P. 6.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Johannes Weil: Up with aluminum ladders. Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, December 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Discharge order, SA Standard 130, May 25, 1937.
  5. ↑ Clearance Certificate, Denazification Main Committee Siegen-Land, ARN / LK / SGN / 1545/7/13 of August 5, 1947.
  6. ↑ Irene Gilbert-Loh: Everything has its time. Memoirs 1919–1947. P. 140.
  7. ^ Friedhelm Loh Group - History. (flash) Retrieved December 3, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Ernst Schupp: God makes history . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1995, ISBN 3-417-21412-2 , p. 167 ff., 194 ff .
  9. ↑ Change at the top of the Christian Media Association KEP , ead.de, message from December 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Loh, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1971
Place of death Haiger