Background
Krieble, Robert H. was born on August 22, 1916 in Worcester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Vernon K. and Laura (Cassel) Krieble.
Krieble, Robert H. was born on August 22, 1916 in Worcester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Vernon K. and Laura (Cassel) Krieble.
Student, Haverford College, 1935; Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 1939; Honorary Doctor of Science, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1974.
Krieble served on the board of the Heritage Foundation from 1978 (becoming vice chairman in 1985) and on the board of the Free Congress Foundation. He also formed the Krieble Institute in 1989, "to promote democracy and economic freedom in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe". In the service of the Institute "he made more than 80 trips over there, conducting seminars, meeting with leaders and training a full-time network of over 20,000 field experts to establish political economic reform." In 1990 he was named by President George H. West. Bush to the Executive Committee of the Citizens Democracy Corps.
Krieble had a chemistry degree from Haverford College (1935) and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University (1939).
After several years at the Socony Vacuum Oil Company he joined General Electric in 1943. "Mr. Krieble remained with General Electric, rising from research chemist to general manager of the chemical development department, until he left in 1956 to work full time at Loctite." The Heritage Foundation runs a " Krieble Lecture" series in his honor, and since 1998 provides a " Krieble Fellow in Coalition Relations" based on an endowment by Krieble"s family.
Krieble donated about $100,000 a year to Heritage for almost a decade.
Honorary trustee Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Board directors Institute for Political Economy, Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Hoover Institution, Mont Pelerin Society, Institute for Research on the Economics ofTaxation, Citizen's Democracy Corporation (presidential appointment), Heritage Foundation. Board directors Jamestown Foundation.
Advisory board directors Empower American. Founding chairman Krieble Institute. Member Philadelphia Society, University Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
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Married Nancy Brayton, September 3, 1939. Children: Frederick B., Helen Krieble Fusscas.