Boschwitz, Rudy, 1930-
Rudolph Eli Boschwitz (born November 7, 1930) is a German-born American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota between December 1978 and January 1991.
Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Weimar Germany, his family fled from Nazi Germany when Boschwitz was three years old, settling in New Rochelle, New York, where he attended public schools before going on to the Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey. Boschwitz attended Johns Hopkins University before earning B.S. and J.D. degrees from New York University. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1954 and the Wisconsin bar in 1959. Boschwitz served in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1954 to 1955. In October 1963, he founded a plywood and home improvement retailer, Plywood Minnesota, which later became Home Valu Interiors; Boschwitz remains the company's chairman. Between 1971 and 1978, he served as a Republican National Committeeman. He was well known in Minnesota for operating a "flavored milk" booth at the Minnesota State Fair.
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