Knut Kühn-Leitz

"In 1936 Dr. Knut Kühn-Leitz was born in Frankfurt am Main. He studied business administration with an international focus in Munich and Fontainebleau, and attained his PhD in Marburg .

In 1966 he joined as an executive assistant to Leitz. In 1971 he was appointed Managing Director. He introduced capital goods market research and business planning to the company. With the initiation of cooperation, he met screening for the company. He was preparing in 1972 for cooperation in development, manufacturing and sales of microscopes from Leitz and Wild Heerbrugg AG, Switzerland, which was associated with investing in the share capital at Wild Leitz. In the same year he was in charge of the conclusion of the technical cooperation with the Minolta Camera Company of Japan. This cooperation ensured the future of the business unit together with the production record in the former low-wage country from Portugal for many years.

Later he was the "management services" of the company transferred. These included, in addition to corporate planning and market research, the patent department and public relations. After the sale of the shares of the family he Leitz from 1986 to 1988 lecturer for corporate planning at the University of Witten-Herdecke and until 1996 a partner in a management consulting firm in Dusseldorf."