Rudolf Wanzl

Rudolf Wanzl (born August 29, 1924 in Giebau , Czechoslovakia; † February 3, 2011 ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Wanzl was born the son of the locksmith and entrepreneur Rudolf Wanzl senior. At the age of 18 he was drafted into military service. After the end of the Second World War, the family was expelled from Giebau in the eastern Sudetenland in November 1946 and came to the Swabian community of Unterkammlach . At the time, the Günzburg calibration office was looking for a manufacturer of scales and so they moved to Leipheim . There father and son founded a workshop for weighing scales and repair services in 1947. From this he formed the medium-sized Wanzl metal goods factory in the decades that followed . In 1998 he handed over the management of the company to his son Gottfried. In 1999 Wanzl became an honorary citizen in Kirchheim in Swabia , where the company's production facility is located.

Honors

• 2006: Bavarian founder award for his life's work
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary citizen in Leipheim and Kirchheim

Web links

• The entrepreneur Rudolf Wanzl is dead , in: Augsburger Allgemeine from February 4, 2011, accessed on December 22, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Stoll: The Fugger of the modern age. Obituary. (No longer available online.) In: Augsburger Allgemeine . February 5, 2011, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 22, 2013 . 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.