Head of KBA Development Georg Schneider Retires

Georg Schneider joined Koenig & Bauer as an apprentice on September 1, 1954 and after qualifying as a machinist was assigned to the drilling shop. But production failed to hold his interest and from 1959 to 1961 he studied engineering technology at the Balthasar-Neumann Polytechnic in Würzburg. This was followed by 19 years in the engineering department working on stereotyping machines. In 1980 Georg Schneider transferred to the development department, where he was able to give full rein to his passion for developing new printing presses and processes. Promoted to head of printing-unit engineering in 1987, he found implementing new ideas much more appealing than the bureaucracy associated with managing a big department, and in 1995 returned to the development department, this time as its head.