Walter Kahn
Walter Richard Kahn (born April 22, 1911 in Braunlage ; † May 14, 2009 in Bad Bayersoien ) was a German travel company.
He founded the Walter Kahn travel agency. In 1953, together with Willy Scharnow and Walter Bangemann, he founded "Scharnow-Reisen GmbH & KG", which quickly developed into the second largest tour operator in Germany and from which TUI emerged. In 1961 he retired from business life.
He was very interested in the preservation and research of fairy tales and legends and therefore founded the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation in 1985 . Another hobby was minerals collect , in this field, he carried in Namibia a large collection together, he in 1982 the mineralogical institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig donated. The mineral warikahnite is named after him. He donated his extensive collection of travel literature to the Historical Archive of Tourism in Berlin.
Web links
- The founder of the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation
- Märchenstiftung mourns its founder
- The Mineralogical Record - Walter Kahn
Individual evidence
- ^ D. Reinsch: Mineralien-Kabinett and Mineralogical Collection Walter Kahn . Braunschweig 1986.
- ↑ Warikahnite , In: John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols (Eds.): Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 66.2 kB )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahn, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kahn, Walter Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German travel company |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunlage |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 2009 |
| Place of death | Bad Bayersoien |