Gottlob Bauknecht

Gottlob Bauknecht (born 30 April 1892 in Neckartenzlingen; died 9 September 1976 in Stuttgart) was a German businessman and engineer.

Bauknecht found his own company Bauknecht for electrical household appliance. He was married and had two sons, Gert und Günter. He was buried on the Waldfriedhof in Stuttgart-Degerloch.

• 1952: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1967: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

• Willi Schickling: Vom Handwerker zum Industriellen. Gottlob Bauknecht. Verlag Gentner Stuttgart, pages 81ff, 1952.

• Eintrag der Unternehmerbiografie in Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) (German)
• WDR 5-Podcast: ZeitZeichen from 9 September 2006 (MP3)