Rolf Schild OBE (1924 - 2003),[1] was a German-born, British-based businessman, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who formed the company Huntleigh Technology, based in Luton, which manufactured and designed medical equipment.
Schild is perhaps best remembered for being a victim of a notorious kidnapping, with his wife and daughter, by a gang while on holiday in Sardinia in 1979.
He was released 16 days later; his wife was set free in January 1980, and his daughter in March of that year.
Born in Cologne, Rolf Schild came to Britain in 1939; he later learned his parents were gassed to death by the Nazis in Chelmno in 1942.
He later developed a talent in medical engineering, and in the early 1950s formed his own company, SE Technology, later to become Huntleigh.