Heinrich Malangré

Heinrich Malangré (25 July 1930 – 12 September 2017) was a German business executive, lawyer, publisher and philanthropist.

An observant Catholic, he held many church offices and was a knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

He belonged to a prominent Aachen family and was the brother of the city's lord mayor Kurt Malangré.

He married Thesi Wolf in 1955 and was the father of Susanne Laschet and the father-in-law of Armin Laschet.

He earned a law degree and a doctorate in law at the University of Bonn in 1956, and worked as a business executive in the glass industry from 1954.

He was involved in several social projects in the Holy Land, and became a knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in 1974 and later became a knight commander.

He was president of the Aachen Chamber of Industry and Commerce from 1981 to 1997 and then became its honorary president.

He was also a board member of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, President of the German–Belgian–Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, President of the Association of the German Glass Industry and a board member of the Stadtsparkasse bank of Aachen.

He also wrote several books on local history and co-founded the Ars Scribendi calligraphy association.

He was active in the Catholic Church and held numerous lay offices in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen, including as chair of the Diocesan Council.

He was the director of economic policy at Saint-Gobain until 1984, when he became head of the Catholic publishing company Einhard Verlag.

His family is of French-speaking Wallonian origin and moved from Haine-Saint-Pierre in Belgium to Stolberg in the second half of the 19th century to establish a glass production business.