Ernst R. Habicht (1902-1987) was the general manager of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's ammonia production plant at Belle, West Virginia, from 1945 to 1948. Habicht was a 1930 graduate of the Harvard Engineering School where he specialized in industrial engineering. He began work at the DuPont Company in 1931 as a technical superintendent, and he later became assistant general manager of the Belle plant where he installed a number of wage incentive and employee representation plans. During Habicht's tenure, the plant's blue-collar work force was organized by District 50 of the United Mine Workers of America. After a bitter twelve-day strike during July 1948, the union won recognition. Habicht was dismissed from his position as general manager shortly after the settlement.