Late during the evening of 17 May 2010, only a few days after his 98th birthday, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fritz
Sennheiser, audio pioneer and founder of today’s
Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, passed away. The audio industry has lost a huge figure, not only in terms of his technical expertise but also in terms of his humanity.
Prof. Dr. Fritz
Sennheiser (9 May 1912 –
17 May 2010) in front of the building in which he founded the company in summer 1945.
Through his company Prof. Dr. Fritz
Sennheiser had a crucial influence on the development of sound transmission technologies and was
instrumental in forging many ground-breaking developments in electroacoustics and transmission technologies. Under his guidance the first shotgun microphones and open
headphones were created and he oversaw important developments in wireless radio and infra-red transmission.
