He was very well connected and at the same time a representative of MIAG, Braunschweig, which was still building complete cement plants at the time.
When Haver & Boecker had its first representatives’ meeting in 1960, the first round packer had just been built. It was German Mende who won the competition organized by Rudolf Haver, Managing Director of the third generation, to find a phonetically understandable international name for it. With HAVER-ROTO-PACKER, he wrote himself into the company history books. Haver & Boecker remembers him as a great personality and a true gentleman.
But he also made history in another area. As he was about to leave his job, Pablo Foerschler Sr. from Spain, a representative of KHD – a global supplier of equipment and services for cement producers – came to our stand at bauma in Munich. He applied to replace German Mende as representative.
Rudolf Haver invited the gentlemen to Oelde and organized a meeting with him at the Hotel Engbert on the evening before their appointment. The two Spaniards didn’t just spend the evening getting to know each other. They’d also compiled a list of the projects that were still to be completed by German Mende – plus those that the new representative Foerschler was to take over. Both worked through this list consistently. Many years later, Rudolf Haver still referred to this transfer of representation as an exemplary ideal case.
Today, Haver & Boecker has its own subsidiary in Barcelona, Haver & Boecker Ibérica.
