Karl Friedrich Gegauf

Karl Friedrich Gegauf (born November 9, 1860, in Stockach - died December 13, 1926, in Steckborn) was a Swiss entrepreneur and inventor.

In 1876, he completed a mechanical apprenticeship in Hindelwangen (modern-day district of Stockach) and Radolfzell and in 1880 became employee of the embroidery machine factory "Georg Baum" in Rorschach.

The outbreak of World War I was a major blow to Gegauf's business as the export of machines was prohibited.

Karl Friedrich Gegauf was the son of Johann Georg, a doctor in Wahlwies.

After the death of his first wife in 1900, Gegauf married Maria Haug in the same year in Mühlhausen-Ehingen.