Peter busch biography

American heir, businessman, and polo player (born 1945)

Peter Busch Orthwein (born October 28, 1945) is an American heir, businessman and polo player. He is the co-founder and chairman of Thor Industries (NYSE: THO).

Early life

His father was Adolphus Busch Orthwein and his mother, Ann Thornley Metcalfe. His paternal great-great-grandfather was Adolphus Busch (1839–1913), the founder of Anheuser-Busch. He has five brothers: Adolphus B. Orthwein II, Stephen A. Orthwein, David Orthwein, Christopher Orthwein, and Michael Montgomery.

He was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding-school in Wallingford, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1968, where he was the captain on the polo team and a member of Quill and Dagger. He went on to receive a Masters in Business Administration degree from Cornell in 1969.

Business career

He started his career at Bankers Trust, and later worked for Gould Electronics.

In 1980, together with Wade F. B. Thompson, he co-founded Thor Industries, an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles and mid-sized commercial buses. It became a public company in 1984, and it joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1986.

He served as its chairman from 1980 to 1986, vice chairman from 1986 to November 2009 and treasurer from 1980 to November 2009. He then served as its president from 2009 to 2012. Additionally, since November 2009, he has served as its chairman and chief executive officer. On August 1, 2013, he stepped down as CEO but remained chairman.

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American politician

Peter Martin Busch (November 19, 1934 – April 10, 1986) was a U. S. Marine Corps officer and the 1984 Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Idaho.

Biography

Born in 1934, Busch was a U. S. Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. He flew in about 400 missions during the war and was shot down once. Busch retired from the Marine Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1976, and moved to Lewiston, Idaho.

He ran for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 1984 and won the May primary, but was soundly defeated by two-term Republican incumbent Jim McClure in the November election, receiving just 26% of the vote. He moved from Lewiston to Caldwell in 1985 to run for Congress in the first district against incumbent Larry Craig.

Death

On April 10, 1986, Busch was piloting his private airplane, a single-engine Piper Arrow, from Coeur d'Alene to a political event in eastern Idaho at Idaho Falls. Also aboard were his wife Charlene (42) and former state senator and Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Terry Reilly (39). The weather was rainy with heavy fog patches; shortly after 8 p.m. MST, the plane crashed into a hillside in Clark County near Dubois and all three were killed instantly. After their funeral in Lewiston on April 15, Busch and his wife were buried in Colton, Washington.

References

Danish painter Peter Busch was primarily engaged in the business of decorative painting. However, he also produced a fine selection of oil landscapes. Travelling extensively across Europe and in America, the impact of impressionism on his work is clear.

Shifting sunlight tints landscapes in gentle pastels, and figures are restless shapes, content to blend in with their surroundings. Returning to Denmark, Busch’s later works retain this glorious use of colour to capture light, but also possess a sense of realism. Woodland scenes detail the beauteous nature of his home country.

Busch trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, although it is unclear as to whether he graduated. His father, Johan Frederik Busch (1825-1883), had a huge influence on his son’s career. Working as a teacher at the Academy, he surely shaped his son’s style and Busch would follow in his father’s footsteps as a decorative painter.

1861

Born in Nöstved, Denmark.

1878-1885

Trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

1884-1885

Exhibited at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

1905

Married Ane Marie Sørensdatter.

1942

Died in Lellinge, Denmark.