Wilhelm Ruppert

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Wilhelm Ruppert (* 1888 ; † February 4, 1965 ) was a German entrepreneur and pioneer in the development of plastic products .

After the First World War, he founded the electrical insulation industry Wahn Wilhelm Ruppert in Wahn in 1919 . He was one of the first to produce self-adhesive plastic films and tapes. He developed products such as layer-free insulation materials. In 1961 he passed the management of the company to his son Wilhelm Ruppert jr. further.

The company existed from 1919 to March 31, 1973 on the site of the former "Zum Stern" brewery (Immendorfsche Landbrauerei) and comprised a licensed varnish and varnish boiler, a gas plant, an agitator, a locksmith's shop, chimney, box carpentry, steam boiler and an infirmary with a company doctor and nurse.

In 1962 he was named Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 15, 1962 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Honors

  • Honorary senator (Senator E. h.) Of the Technical University of Karlsruhe for his services to the development of plastic products
  • Namesake of Wilhelm-Ruppert-Strasse in Cologne-Porz / Wahn

literature

  • Electrical insulation industry Wahn Wilhelm Ruppert Wahn-Rhld. History of a life's work Chronological records of the development of the electrical insulation industry Wahn from 1919 to 1956. Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1956.
  • Benno Kris: The electrical insulation industry madness: Wilhelm Ruppert and his work. In: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Volume 37/38, 2012/2013, pp. 45–106.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : From paper: a cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany , Walter de Gruyter 2011, p. 557
  2. ↑ a b 150 years of Cologne district , Landesdienst-Verlag 1966, p. 477 ff.
  3. ↑ Chemisches Zentralblatt, Volume 120, Akademie-Verlag 1954, p. 3049
  4. ↑ Meine Strasse: At Hansel and Gretel , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 5, 2009
  5. ↑ Heinz Schmidt-Bachem : Kunststoffe, Volume 45 , JF Lehmanns Verlag 1955, p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Ruppert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and pioneer in the development of plastic products
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1965