Former KBA President Dr. Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schünemann Dies
In conjunction with the Koenig & Bauer Foundation, over the years Dr Bolza-Schünemann privately helped to fund a wide range of cultural activities throughout the region. If funding was inadequate, he would energetically drum up support and sponsors among the more affluent members of society. Following German reunification he organised a benefit concert in autumn 1990 which raised over DM200,000 for the restoration of St. Mary’s Church in Suhl, Würzburg’s twin town in East Germany. As a co-initiator of the “Rosenkavaliere”, a select circle of benefactors, he was instrumental right up until his death in raising funds to support the main theatre in Würzburg, which at one time was threatened with closure. Another of his life’s missions was to further the careers of young engineers through KBA’s Benno Bolza Foundation.