Dr Herbert Loebl, OBE (18 April 1923 – 28 January 2013)[1] was a British businessman, philanthropist and leading proponent of exporting, notable as a co-founder of Joyce, Loebl & Company, a manufacturer of scientific instruments.

Herbert Loebl was born in Bamberg in Germany, into a prominent local Jewish family.

With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Loebl family fled persecution to the United Kingdom in late 1938 where he attended Dover Grammar School for Boys in Kent.

[2] Joyce, Loebl & Co. exported over 70 percent of its products and at the time of its sale to Technical Operations Inc. (Tech/Ops), an American company, it was one of the major employers in north-eastern England with some 500 workers.

[3] Some of the most significant products developed by Joyce, Loebl & Co were the optical microdensitometer used to visualise the properties of DNA and other organic compounds,[1] and the MecoLab, a system of routine blood-panel analysis for hospitals.