KNAFF Albert (Jr)

Albert KNAFF was the son of Albert Victor KNAFF (1859-1935) and was born in Wissen (Germany) where his father took up the position of Director of the company “Van der Zypen & Wissener” in 1898.
KNAFF junior, like his father, studied engineering in Aachen where he qualified as Maschinenbau-Ingenieur around 1923.
Up to 1927 he worked for the ARBED steelworks in Dudelange and around 1929 he joined the “Spiegelglassfabrik Germania” in Porz am Rhein, a subsidiary of the Belgian company “Société Anonyme des Glaces Nationales-Belges” à St Roch-Auvelais-les-Namur. In 1932 KNAFF became director of the company.
By 1945 KNAFF had joined the mother company in Brussels which had taken on the name of “Glaceries de St Roch”. He ended his professional career in the company as administrateur-délégué.
Around 1952 KNAFF left “Glaceries St Roch” and acted as an independent consulting engineer, with residence in Brussels (Rhode-St Genèse). In 1958 he assigned his last invention to “Siemens-Schuckertwerke (Erlangen)”.
KNAFF died in Nice in February 1969, and was buried in Luxembourg-city.

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