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Herbert Kreibich (24 March 1910 - 7 January 2019) was a Swiss centenarian who was the oldest living man in Switzerland.
Biography
Kreibich was born in Kaaden an der Eger, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), on 24 March 1910. The Second World War took the Kreibich family first to Hesse and later to the Palatinate. Kreibich was known as entrepreneur and manager, among other things as CFO and later Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH in Ludwigshafen. Following his retirement in 1975, he moved with his wife from Ludwigshafen to Weinheim, Switzerland. He published a book "Dynamische innerbetriebliche Berichte als Führungsinstrument" in the Verlag Moderne Industrie. His wife Trude Kreibich passed away in 2013. In his final years, Kreibich lived in Montreux at the Geneva Lake. He passed away on 7 January 2019 at the age of 108.