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Herbert Vollrath Kohler Jr. (February 20, 1939 – September 3, 2022) was an American billionaire businessman, a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin, and the executive chairman of the Kohler Company, a manufacturing and hospitality company in Kohler, Wisconsin, best known for its plumbing products, golf courses, and resorts, with the latter two fields of business directly entered into ...
The Kohler family of Wisconsin is a family notable for its prominence in business, society, and politics in the U.S. state of Wisconsin during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its members include two Governors of Wisconsin , and the founder and executives of Kohler Co. , a Wisconsin-based manufacturing and hospitality company.
The Kohler family was a prominent business family in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Pages in category "Kohler family (Wisconsin)" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Kohler Co., is an American manufacturing company founded in 1873 by John Michael Kohler, based in Kohler, Wisconsin. [3] Kohler is best known for its plumbing products, but the company also manufactures furniture , cabinetry , tile , engines , and generators .
Walter J. Kohler Jr. Republican: Governor of Wisconsin (1951–1957) Candidate for U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1957) $8.8 billion [24] Owner of Vollrath: Rick Caruso: Democratic: Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles (2022) $5.3 billion [25] Owner-founder of Caruso: Ronald Lauder: Republican: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and ...
Herbert resisted all efforts to compromise, even sharply rejecting a public appeal from his nephew, Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr. In 1960, the National Labor Relations Board decided against the Kohler Company, ruling that it had refused to bargain in good faith after the strike broke out. Herbert was ordered to reinstate 1,700 workers.
[1] [5] She married Herbert Vollrath Kohler Sr. in 1937. [5] [3] She had three children: Herbert Kohler Jr., born in 1939; Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, born in 1941; and Frederick Cornell Kohler, born in 1943. In 1953, at the age of 46, DeYoung Kohler died of a heart ailment at her home in Kohler, Wisconsin. [4]
Herbert Kohler Jr. (father-in-law) Mark Samuel Hoplamazian [ 1 ] (born November 27, 1963) is an Armenian American businessman, who has been the president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation since December 2006. [ 2 ]