KREBS, Louis (1886 - 1944)

Engineer, entrepreneur, shipbuilder and a French resistance fighter of the Second World War.

Louis is the son of the inventor Arthur Krebs who participated in the invention of the Gymnote submarine in 1888. At the end of the First World War, he creates a Panhard concession in Paris where he remained for 10 years. In 1931, he bought a ship building site "Le Roy-frères" in Concarneau which he called the Krebs Shipyard. In 1933 with the refrigerationist Henri Alliot, they had the idea and concept of the cold room in the tuna-ships, as well as the creation of the concept of tuna-ship trawlers, these "mixed boats" practicing trawling fishing during the winter and tuna fishing during the summer. He was elected mayor of Lanriec. At the beginning of World War II, Louis Krebs is a reserve captain. He is recalled, for a few months and he commanded a train division. Subsequently, he returned to Concarneau. He died August 24, 1944 killed by German forces.

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KREBS, Louis

Curriculum vitae

* 11.05.1886		nato
14.01.1902		Patent A. Dominick & L. Krebs n°US 695917 : Boat.
1914 - 1924	Paris, France	At the end of the war, with the help of his father, he set up a garage in Paris. It will be Panhard store for ten years.
1931 - 1936	Concarneau	Buying a ship building site renamed Krebs shipyard.
1933	Concarneau	Design of the cold room for tuna-ships with refrigeration Henri Alliot.
1933	Concarneau	Innovation with the addition of the tuna-ship dundees Beaudoin's engines.
1933	Lanriec	Elected as mayor of Lanriec.
1940		Reserve captain in the Second World War.
† 24.08.1944		morto
1946		A trawler, based on the plans of Louis Krebs took his name.
1948 - 1955	Concarneau	Command and launch of the first wooden tuna-chips trawlers at the rate of two to three per year.

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_24383004.html

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KREBS, Louis (1886 - 1944)