Fritz Schlumpf
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Federico "Fritz" Schlumpf (Omegna
, Italy
, February, 1906; April 18, 1992) was a French Industrialist of Swiss origins and collector of automobiles. He is best known for the Schlumpf collection housed at the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse
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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.
After WWII Fritz and Hans Schlumpf gathered an enormous collection of classic automobiles, including several hundred Bugattis. To fund this hobby they encumbered their enterprise to such an extent that by 1977 it became insolvent. Until this time the automobile collection was unknown to the public, but the excesses were revealed in 1977 during a strike by the former Schlumpf textile workers.
Omegna
Omegna is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 13 km southwest of Verbania at the northernmost point of Lago d’Orta and traversed by the Nigoglia, the lake’s sole outflow.-History:The presence...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, February, 1906; April 18, 1992) was a French Industrialist of Swiss origins and collector of automobiles. He is best known for the Schlumpf collection housed at the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse
Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse
Cité de l’Automobile, Musée national de l’automobile, Collection Schlumpf is located in Mulhouse, France and houses the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles...
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Schlumpf was the son of the textile industrialist, Carl Schlumpf and his wife Jeanne Becker. The textile industrialist Hans Schlumpf
Hans Schlumpf
Giovanni "Hans" Schlumpf was an industrialist and collector of automobiles. He is best known for the Schlumpf collection housed at the Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse....
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.
After WWII Fritz and Hans Schlumpf gathered an enormous collection of classic automobiles, including several hundred Bugattis. To fund this hobby they encumbered their enterprise to such an extent that by 1977 it became insolvent. Until this time the automobile collection was unknown to the public, but the excesses were revealed in 1977 during a strike by the former Schlumpf textile workers.