Hans Müller (entrepreneur, 1916)

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Hans Müller (born May 17, 1916 in Bottenwil ; † January 19, 2013 in Zofingen ), legal resident in Wiliberg , was a Swiss entrepreneur .

Life

Family and education

The reformed baptized, born Bottenwiler Hans Müller, son of the carpenter Johann Müller, completed after his compulsory education training as a technical draftsman . As a result, he attended the cantonal technical center in Burgdorf from 1938 , where he obtained his diploma as a machine technician in 1941 .

In 1946 Hans Müller married Martha, born Schlapbach, from Utzenstorfer . The person who was awarded honorary citizenship of the local community of Zofingen in 1995 died there in January 2013 at the age of 97.

Professional background

Hans Müller founded his own company in 1946, namely the collective company Müller and Ruf in Zofingen, specializing in the manufacture of stitching machines . After its dissolution, the sole proprietorship Hans Müller Maschinenfabrik was founded there in 1947 . In 1956 the company was converted into a stock corporation , Grapha Maschinenfabrik Hans Müller AG . This founded foreign companies in the 1960s , in 1969 it took over the traditional bookbinding machine factory Martini in Frauenfeld . When it was handed over to two of his sons in 1991, the group, which has been operating under the Muller Martini name since the early 1970s, employed around 4,000 people, making it one of the world's leading providers of machines for postpress. The number of employees remained constant until 2007, around half of which are at the Swiss locations.

Groundbreaking developments

The accomplished engineer Hans Müller was responsible for the development of numerous innovative machines for postpress . Five years after the first block stitching machine, he designed his first perfect binder and in 1954 the first saddle stitcher with automatic sheet feeders and coupled three-knife trimmers. While the competition at the time was ideally stapling around 1000 copies per hour, the new fully automatic machine enabled four times as much with even better quality. In 1956, Müller caused a sensation in the professional world with the "flying stapling heads" , which stapled without stop and go for the first time, which enabled the production speed to be increased again significantly.

literature

  • Andreas Steigmeier , Müller-Martini AG (Zofingen): People, machines, Müller Martini, Müller Martini Marketing AG, Zofingen, 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottenwil
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2013
Place of death Zofingen