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In Memoriam einz K. Thiele, Nachmittag mit .…..” (“An AES fellow, died Afternoon with ...…”). Hon March 4, in Some of the subjects includ- Hamburg-Ohlsdorf near his ed Professor Walter Bruch, home in Schwarzenbek, inventor of the PAL-color- Germany. He had just cele- TV-standard, the physicist brated his 85th birthday. Mandred von Ardenne, and Thiele was well known for Friedrich W. O. Bauch, the his work in audio and cine- first technical director of matographic history, which RIAS in West Berlin. he dedicated to the AES In 1985, after his retire- Historical Committee. ment, he became an AES Born 1917 in Dresden, he member and collaborated at graduated from the Techni- the Historical Session during cal High School in electri- the 77th AES Convention in cal engineering. The first Hamburg, Germany (1985). contact with his life pas- The Historical Committee sion, audio and video tech- then became more active. nology, came when he Thanks to Heinz and worked in the sound labora- Friedrich Engel of BASF, tory of Zeiss Ikon in Dres- we discovered Helmut den, prior to his study of Krueger, who made the first electrical engineering. He stereo recordings on mag- was fascinated with the netic tape in 1943 in Berlin. AEG Magnetophone, intro- During the Berlin conven- duced at the 1935 tion in 1993, we honored Radio Exhibition in Berlin, Heinz K. Thiele Krueger. Thiele put together 1917-2002 based on the magnetic tape, a special booklet in German an invention of Fritz on “50 Jahre Stereo-Mag- Pfleumer in 1929 in Dresden. In developed. In 1971 he became tech- netband-technik,” of which seven of 1937, at the age of 20, he began his nical manager of Ullstein AV, a sub- the eight contributions also appeared career at the Central Laboratory of sidiary of the Axel Springer Publish- in English as a preprint.
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