Willy Korf (* 13 August 1929 in outer one (victory); "† 21 November 1990 in Innsbruck) was an entrepreneur.

1948 began Korf with the building material and land goods wholesale of its family. To it, the enterprise in the wood succeeded to increase building material and iron goods range in Baden-Baden. Into the 1950er years Korf with the production of spot welded welded wire meshes in Kehl, which gave the impact to create in the middle of the 1960er years the electric steel plant steel plants of Baden AG in Kehl. 1961 had sold the enterprise for welded wire meshes to Korf to the company for DM 20 millions. In competition to the traditional steel concerns in the Ruhr district, in Bavaria and Lower Saxony the steel plants of Baden grew and became by getting thing the arranged Korf industry and trade the GmbH & CO. Kg led.

Korf profited from an economic situation from reinforcing steels, in particular in the USA, into which he exported much. 1969 established the first steel plant in Beaumont in the USA to Korf in its modern procedure. It created those Hamburg steel plants, which with the production of wire rod, how it e.g. for production by high-strength screws is needed, were occupied. 1974 succeeded it to Korf to acquire the world-wide rights at the Midrex Stahlverfahren which had made it more independent from the favorable entrance to ores and coal, but dependent on the scrap iron offer. In the course for the steel crisis end of the 1970er years turned out the enterprise during the first oil price shock into the crisis. Also to the fall probably also the end of the reinforcing steel boom in the USA contributed, about what the work came into Beaumont in difficulties.

1981 produced still 2.7 millions t rawsteel for Korf and obtained a world-wide conversion of DM 2.78 billion several enterprises of the Korf group announced comparison. the steel plants of Baden went to 1983 into bankruptcy, however through a national endorsement were saved. The enterprise BSW is led today as centralconstant enterprise by the families Seizinger and Weitzmann. The native Indian Lakshmi Mittal took over later those Hamburg steel plants.

Despite the collapse of its enterprise Korf 1985 created Korf transport GmbH, with which a new beginning succeeded to him. Again Korf sought to carry out the modern Midrex Stahlerzeugungsverfahren with the idea of the Kleinst steel plant.

Korf died 1990 with an aircraft crash in Innsbruck.

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