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AEM HOF Loses Two Members
SHARE April 21, 2021
AEM has noted that two of its Hall of Fame members passed away in the last year: Cyril Keller, co-inventor of the skid steer loader, and Helmut Claas, former chairman of the German agriculture machinery company Claas.
Cyril Keller, a member of the 1999 induction class to what was then known as the Construction Equipment Hall of Fame, passed away October 28, 2020, in his hometown of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, at age of 98. Keller was inducted, along with his younger brother Louis (1923-2010), for his development of the first skid steer loader.
The Keller brothers, originally trained as blacksmiths, operated their own machine shop in Rothsay, Minnesota. A farmer friend of theirs said he needed a machine capable of cleaning out stalls in his turkey barns that was light enough to operate on the barn’s upper levels. Their first design of a three-wheel loader eventually deve
Agricultural machinery pioneer, Helmut Claas, dies.
News 08 Jan 2021
Helmut Claas, long-time Managing Director, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Shareholders Committee of the CLAAS group, has died this week at the age of 94.
His death has come as a great shock. Along with the family and all of the relatives, not only are well over 11,000 employees around the world mourning, but so too is an entire industry which, in Helmut Claas, has lost a significant European business personality.
JCB Chairman Lord Bamford said: “Helmut Claas has been a very important figure in the agricultural machinery business for more than six decades. A passionate farmer and engineer, the worldwide agricultural industry is going to miss him tremendously but we can take some comfort in the fact he has left the business in a very strong position and in the very capable hands of his daughter Cathrina. From one family business to another, I extend my deepest sympathy to Cathrina and