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8 unusual facts about Freudenberg


Chicago Metallic Corporation

In the 1980s, over a period of 3 years DAMPA developed, in collaboration with Freudenberg, a new acoustic felt (Soundtex) to replace mineral wool.

Freudenberg

Freudenberg Group, a German family-owned diversified group of companies

Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1906–1984), German historian and an early opponent of Adolf Hitler

Freudenberg, Westphalia, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Freudenberg, Bavaria

It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Amberg.

Freudenberg, Westphalia

Until the 1980s, there was also a railway connection through the Biggetalbahn to Olpe in the north and through the Asdorftalbahn to Betzdorf in the south.

Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

Ludwig married Lady Anne Savile, daughter of John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough and his second wife Agnes Louisa Elizabeth Raphael, on 15 May 1897 in London.

Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

In 1927, Anne financed Captain Leslie Hamilton's attempt to set an aviation record by being the first aviator to fly over the Atlantic Ocean from east to west from England to Canada.


Atlantic Promotions

The company not only distributes products from other companies, but it also manufactures its own products under brands such as Starfrit and Oskar (now owned by Freudenberg) and Vitagro.

Duke Christian of Oldenburg

Christian is a great-grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II and through his mother he is related to the Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, who belong to a morganatic branch of the House of Wittelsbach descending from Frederick I, Elector Palatine.

Duke Christian was born in Rastede, Lower Saxony, the only son of Duke Anton-Günther of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Ameli of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (b. 1923).

Freudenberg Group

The Freudenberg Group owns the Hermannshof public botanic garden in Weinheim, which opened in 1983 and is jointly operated with the town.

Graham Freudenberg

Norman Graham Freudenberg AM (born 1934) is an Australian author and political speechwriter who worked in the Australian Labor Party for over forty years, beginning when he was appointed Arthur Calwell's press secretary in June 1961.

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

He was the son of Richard 4th Fürst zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and of his wife, née Princess Madeleine zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg.

Hermann Lindrath

In 1953 Lindrath defeated industrialist Richard Freudenberg (of Freudenberg Group) who had held the constituency of Mannheim-Land in his first bid for a Bundestag seat.

Karl Freudenberg

His grandfather Carl Johann Freudenberg was a tanner and businessman, who in 1849, with Heinrich Christian Heintze, founded Freudenberg Group.

Ludwig-Ferdinand Prinz von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Ludwig was the son of Richard, 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Princess Madeleine of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg.

Winfried Freudenberg

Freudenberg was born in Osterwieck, and grew up in the Saxony-Anhalt town of Lüttgenrode, near what was then the border between his native East Germany, which was then a part of the communist Eastern Bloc, as a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and West Germany.


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