Koenig & Bauer’s Heinz Schmid, 1944–2020

 

News & Tech has gotten word that Heinz Schmid has died.

He was known and admired by many in the industry.

Schmid, who died in June, served as vice president of web offset sales for Koenig & Bauer’s newspaper and commercial web market and later was in an advisory role for the company.

He was born in 1944, in Wurzburg, Germany. In 1959, Schmid began a lifelong career with Koenig & Bauer, the Germany-based printing press manufacturer.  He moved to Chicago in 1971 with his wife, Hannelore Dettenbach, and daughter, Alexandra, as he continued his career with KBA North America. In 1980 he joined their sales department in Atlanta and traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Along the road of life, Heinz met many diverse and influential people and made lifelong friends with Americans and Europeans alike.

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