Ancestral Chain as Foundation

“Reinhold Würth will often speak later in his life about how he sees himself as a link in the chain of his ancestors. And his primal trust in the family was never broken. Even the worldwide success of his screws began with his grandfather, because it was he who sent his father to apprentice with a screw wholesaler, and now also advised on how to set up his own shop – which Reinhold Würth would take over ten years later.”

“Perhaps Reinhold Würth loved his father so much also because his heart condition had protected him from being drafted to the front. He had not, like so many other fathers, returned from the war a broken man. His soul was not a heap of rubble, he could remain a role model, father, friend and brother in one.”