====== Schmidt, Lothar ======
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**Lothar Schmidt** is an engineer, watch entrepreneur and owner of the watch manufacturer [[Sinn]].

[[Sinn, Helmut|Helmut Sinn]] had founded the [[Sinn|Sinn Spezialuhren GmbH & Co. KG]] in [[1956]] and built it up as a special producer of [[pilot's watch]]es. After he had successfully positioned this company on the market by an unusual concept of direct marketing, he sold it in September [[1994]] to the former [[IWC]] employee and graduate engineer [[Lothar Schmidt]].

The [[1949]] in Neunkirchen, Saarland, born Lothar Schmidt, after graduating from high school, studied engineering in Saarbrücken. In the 1970s, he had his first contact with the watch industry: he became technical director of a housing company. [[1980]], he moved as a freelancer for [[IWC]] to Schaffhausen, where he was responsible for the development of an innovative case and bracelet production. He developed solutions to problems in dealing with the difficult to process materials [[titanium]], [[platinum]] and [[ceramic]]. Under his leadership the first [[Porsche Design]] models were created: [[Porsche Design by IWC Ocean 2000]], the zirconium oxide case of the [[IWC Da Vinci|Da Vinci]] and the case of the [[IWC Grande Complication|Grande Complication]].(([[http://www.watchtime.ch/contents/watches/reviews/sinn157st.html|watchtime.ch]], as of 20.2.2008 ))

From [[1990]], Schmidt was responsible for rebuilding the revived tradition brand [[A. Lange & Söhne]] in [[Glashütte]], which was made possible through the support of the [[LMH]] (to which belonged [[IWC]] and [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]]).

[[1998]], four years after his acquisition of the brand [[Sinn]], Lothar Schmidt, together with Walter Fricker (owner of the housing company Fricker, [[Pforzheim]]) and Ronald Boldt, former Head of Technology and Quality of the [[Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH|Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb]], founded the case manufacturer [[SUG|SUG Sächsische Uhrentechnologie GmbH]] in [[Glashütte]].


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