Walter Ludewig
Walter Ludewig (born February 10, 1910 in Herford ; † July 23, 2007 there ) was the head of the furniture company Poggenpohl for many years and as such shaped the mass production of fitted kitchens.
The trained banker Ludewig came to Poggenpohl as a young man in 1935. He became a personally liable partner just five years after joining the company.
After the end of the war, Walter Ludewig was committed as a pioneer and trendsetter for the further development of the add-on kitchen into an industrially manufactured chipboard fitted kitchen .
In the furniture industry and in trade associations, Ludewig has held numerous honorary positions regionally and nationally, for example as a founding member and decades-long board member of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft moderne Küche” (AMK) and as President of the European Association of Kitchen Furniture Manufacturers (Paris, Brussels). In 1963, the Technical University of Karlsruhe awarded Ludewig the title of honorary senator. The North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Economic Affairs awarded him the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1980 for his services .
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- ↑ The father of the fitted kitchen is dead. Manager-Magazin, accessed on February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ KIT List of Honorary Senators
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ludewig, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herford |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2007 |
| Place of death | Herford |