Rehau is a
town in the
district of Hof, in
Bavaria,
Germany. The first documented name of Rehau was "Resawe" in the year 1234. Rehau is situated in the
Fichtelgebirge, 12 km southeast of
Hof, and 12 km west of
Aš
Aš (; german: Asch) is a town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Dolní Paseky, Doubrava (Aš), Doubrava, Horní Paseky, Kopaniny (Aš), Kopaniny, ...
. Formerly a fairly isolated town, located as it is near both Czech and former East German borders, with the fall of The Wall, it is now in the centre of a growing area, with a new Autobahn providing ready access from Nuremberg and Munich.
The principal employer and economic engine is the polymer manufacturer
Rehau AG & Co, which was founded in 1948. With more than 15,000 employees Rehau is an international company that produces products for the construction industry, automotive and general industry.
Sons and daughters of the city
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Peter Angermann (born 1945), painter
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Eberhard Bodenschatz (born 1959), physicist
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Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz
Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (10 December 1890 – 25 August 1979) was a German general who was the adjutant to Manfred von Richthofen in World War I and the liaison officer between Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler in World War II.
Biography
Ea ...
, (1890-1979), in the First World War adjutant of
Manfred von Richthofen, later General of the Luftwaffe and adjutant of
Hermann Göring
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Arthur Grimm (1908-after 1990), photographer
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Hans Grimm
Hans Grimm (22 March 1875 – 29 September 1959) was a German writer. The title of his 1926 novel ''Volk ohne Raum'' became a political slogan of the expansionist Nazi ''Lebensraum'' concept.
Early life
Hans Grimm was born in Wiesbaden, in the Pr ...
(1905-1998), director
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Hans Vogt (engineer) (1890-1979), engineer
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Jobst Wagner
Jobst Wagner (born 20 February 1959 in Rehau) is a Swiss entrepreneur.
Life
After attending schools in Canada, Germany and Switzerland, he graduated in law (lic.jur.) from the University of Bern. Starting in 1986, he worked in different position ...
(born 1959), head of
Rehau Group
Personalities who have worked on the ground
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Eugen Gomringer, (born 1925), artist
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Nora-Eugenie Gomringer
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (born 26 January 1980) is a German and Swiss poet and writer.
She has won a number of awards, including the 2013 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, the 2015 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis and the Carl Zuc ...
, (born 1980), artist
References
External links
Website of Rehau
Hof (district)
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