Fritz Schlumpf

Fritz Schlumpf (February, 1906 – April 18, 1992) was a French Industrialist and collector of automobiles. He is best known for the Schlumpf collection housed at the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse.

Schlumpf was the son of the textile industrialist, Carl Schlumpf and his wife Jeanne Becker. The textile industrialist Hans Schlumpf was his brother. The Schlumpf family moved to Mulhouse, France in 1908. Hans and Fritz Schlumpf lived in Mulhouse at their country house, Malmerspach, until they escaped and became Swiss exiles in 1977.

Between the end of the second world war and 1977, the brothers Fritz and Hans Schlumpf gathered an enormous collection of classical automobiles including several hundred Bugattis, For the financing of this hobby they loaded their enterprise in such a manner the fact that by 1977 it became insolvent. Up to this time of the public the not well-known automobile collection with excesses in the context of a strike by the former workers of the textile work one discovered.