Ursula Ida Lapp

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Ursula Ida Lapp (born Emmelmann ; born May 30, 1930 in Benshausen , Thuringia ) is a German entrepreneur . She is Oskar Lapp's widow .

Life

In 1957, Oskar Lapp developed the world's first industrially manufactured control cable, which was marketed under the brand name Ölflex®. The Lapp couple began shipping the cables in a garage in Vaihingen and on the first floor of their house. At that time, Ursula Ida Lapp personally brought the parcels to the post office and the train. In the period that followed, Oskar and Ursula Ida Lapp jointly set up sales for the new product.

In 1959 Ursula Ida Lapp and her husband Oskar Lapp founded the UI Lapp KG named after her in Stuttgart. Ursula Ida Lapp was responsible for accounting, logistics, purchasing and shipping right from the start. Today the Lapp Group is a global company in the field of cable technology with 3000 employees and 805 million euros in sales.

After Oskar Lapp's death, Ursula Ida Lapp continued to run the company together with her sons Siegbert and Andreas. Today she is chairwoman of the supervisory board of Lapp Holding AG. In addition to the management function in the company for the CDU, she was in the regional parliament.

Ursula Ida Lapp Hall

After the company Lapp-Kabel contributed 600,000 euros, the Möhringen community center was built in March 2008 . In return, Lapp-Kabel received the naming rights for the large citizens' hall on the ground floor. It was therefore named after Ursula Ida Lapp, the wife of the company's founder, Oskar Lapp.

social commitment

Ursula Ida Lapp is involved in a variety of social and cultural areas.

Ursula Ida Lapp and her son Siegbert were honored in 2008 for the family-friendly and social corporate culture of the Lapp Group at the Baden-Württemberg state competition "Equal opportunities for men and women in the company" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Ursula Ida Lapp celebrates her 75th birthday, report on all-electronics.de  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.all-electronics.de  
  3. ↑ History - www.lappgroup.com , accessed on January 29, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Lapp Kabel closes coverage gap for Möhringer Bürgerhaus (PDF file; 297 kB)
  5. ↑ “Something has become good” - Möhringen Aktuell March 5, 2008
  6. ↑ Minister of Economics Pfister honors nine companies in the state competition "Equal Opportunities for Men and Women in Companies" 2008 , November 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Lapp, Ursula Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmelmann, Ursula Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Benshausen , Thuringia