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He started his business career at a German printing equipment manufacturer and went with Linotype Germany in 1957 where he became Managing Director in 1960 and in 1983 President of the worldwide Linotype organisation. When Linotype became a public German company and merged with the scanner manufacturer Dr Hell, he was also Chairman of the Management Board of Linotype-Hell AG.
Linotype machines were the ultimate typesetting tools of newspapers for almost 100 years. They produced hot-metal “lines of types” that could be arranged to columns and pages. The typesetting industry experienced significant changes during the last three decades of the 20
th century.
In 1972, the originally American company Linotype set up a production facility in Eschborn, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main and moved the company headquarters there in 1974.