Maximilian Leopold Loeblich

Maximilian Leopold Löblich (born 16 November, 1901 in Vienna; died 1 March, 1984) was Austrian Entrepreneur, Coppersmith, Engineer and President of Löblich & Co. Kessel- und Apparatebau KG, the oldest heating manufacturer in Austria till today.

Life

Max Loeblich, son of the railway-engineer and Director of the Vienna Local Railway Company (Wiener Lokalbahnen), Max Loeblich went to boarding-school in Horn, Lower Austria, then finished the poly-technicum im Vienna and became coppersmith master in Vienna.

1924-1927 he worked as technical designer in a German manufacturing company, before becoming responsible of product design and engineering of Loeblich&Co..

1935 he took over the management of the company Leopold Loeblich Metal Works from his uncle Leopold Löblich together with his brother Ing.Franz Loeblich. The Federal Union of Coppersmiths became under Nazi rule (1938-1945) part of a German craftsmanship representation, in which Loeblich (despite not being a member of the Nazi party NSDAP), was elected as chairman, representing the coppersmiths. After the death of his brother in the last days of Word War 2, he continued the business on his own.

As engineer and designer of new types of heating boilers (welded smoke-pipe boilers, system Rohleder with athmospheric burners (Polidoro, Italy) and electro-mechanical gas valve (system Brahma)) he managed to expand the business amongst the leading producers in Europe and was market leader in Austria's market for gas heaters in the 1950s. In due course, gas became the most popular form of energy for household-heating in Austria and many countries in Europe.

Amongst Loeblich's customers were Austria's federal presidents Adolf Schärf, Franz Jonas, Kurt Waldheim and Thomas Klestil, Hungarian president János Kádár, prime minister Bruno Kreisky, vice-chancellor Alois Mock and Loeblich obtained many public awards.

A few years before his death in 1984 he passed over the management of the company to his son Max Wolfgang Loeblich (b. 1931) and his nephew Ing. Adolf Loeblich (b. 1938), who continued the business and started many international cooperations, distribution and service agreements in the fields of heating and catering systems.

family

Married to Elisabeth Goetz (1899 - 1987) Loeblich was father of 3 children: Maria, m. Williams, Konstanze, m. Seiller-Tarbuk and Max.

KR Max Löblich died in 1984 and is buried in Weidling near Vienna in the family grave, the first work of architect Robert Oerley.

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Name	Loeblich, Maximilian Leopold
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Date of birth	1901
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Date of death	1984
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