Hans Müller (entrepreneur, 1916)
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
Web links
- Andreas Steigmeier : Müller, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Founder of the Müller Martini Group died at the age of 96: Hans Müller (1916–2013) on the website www.mullermartini.com; Retrieved March 3, 2013
- Founder of the Muller Martini group of companies died at the age of 96, in the World Newspaper Association WAN-IFRA on March 3, 2013 ; Retrieved March 3, 2013
- Hans Müller, founder of the Muller Martini Group, has passed away; Pioneer in mechanical engineering for the graphic industry in www.print.de from March 1, 2013; Retrieved March 3, 2013
personal data | |
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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 |