CV Kurt Losten
CV Kurt Hugo Losten
born 27.7.1918 in Stuttgart, Wuerttemberg, Germany. Protestant.
Parents: Hugo and Amalie (née Wörz) Löwenstein. Father converted from the Jewish faith to Protestantism before marrying. One sister, Inge, born 15.7.1922.
Grown up in Stuttgart. Elementary school, then Dillmann-Realgymnasium (High School).
Successful athlete. Every year as Primus awarded School Prize. 1937 no longer possible due to the political conditions, therefore "private price" of the politically dissident class teacher.
1937 High school graduation as the only one of this year in Stuttgart with grade I (very good).
No admission to study (Nuremberg Laws).
1937-39 commercial-technical apprenticeship at the Robert Bosch GmbH Stuttgart.
In early September 1939 drafted into the Wehrmacht (artillery). Military service in Ludwigsburg and Brünn (Brno), Sudetenland. End of September 1940 discharge from the Wehrmacht due to tightened provisions against "Halbarier" (Nazi terminus for people of partly jewish descent).
October 1940 Return to Robert Bosch GmbH as a commercial clerk.
1942 expelled from the apartment in favor of a Gestapo (Nazi Secret Police) official, delivery of the radio. Entry of the entire family into a "Jewish house", which was known as the last stage before the deportation to Concentration Camp.
Prohibition on visiting restaurants, cinemas and other public facilities (eg public air-raid shelters). Substantial inferiority in food and supply. In the fall of 1944, the aforementioned Jewish house in Kernerstrasse in Stuttgart totally damaged by bombings. Accommodation of the individual family members with helpful acquaintances.
A few days before the bombing, he received the deportation order to Concentration Camp from the Gestapo. By immediate intervention of the company Robert Bosch, a postponement of the deportation could be achieved.
No more office work, instead collecting and sorting old material and scrap in the bombed-out ruins of the Bosch factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach together with prisoners of war from Russia, Poland and France.
At the beginning of 1945 the Gestapo ordered his father to be deported. At the last minute, the mother was able to postpone with the help of a medical doctor's certificate ("not transportable").
All relatives on the paternal side died since the beginning of the war in various Concentration Camps.
Since the end of war in May 1945 due to heavy destructions at Robert Bosch GmbH facilities only half a week work possible (cleanup). The other days working for the US Military Governement. There acquaintance with Hildegard Krause, who had fled at the end of the war from Berlin, where she had been working with the broadcasting service, through the Russian occupation zone to Stuttgart.
May 1947 marriage.
1947 Leaving Robert Bosch GmbH at his own request and joining C. Lorenz AG Stuttgart as sales manager for telex systems in the Baden-Wuerttemberg area.
1952 name change, for not to be disadvantaged professionally.
1955 return to Robert Bosch GmbH as a commercial employee in the home appliance business.
1956 Assistant Manager.
1957-58 Head of the sales office Hamburg of Junkers u. Co. (subsidiary of Robert Bosch).
1958-63 Head of Bosch sales house Stuttgart
From 1963 member of the board of management, first as managing director, then as deputy CEO.
1964 CEO.
30.06.1982 Retirement.
Died 09.04.2011 in Stuttgart.
