Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] Leica factoid
From: hcummer at gmail.com (Howard Cummer)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:35:41 -0800
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Was trolling along the internet today and came across this:

In July 2014 the Austrian press published a new ranking of the richest 
Austrians. Many of these come from well known billionaire families or are 
self made. Some are household names like Porsche, Red Bull and Swarovski. 
Others represent decades of success by Austrian ?Mittelstand? companies ? 
technically brilliant and successful worldwide but largely unknown to the 
public beyond Austria?s borders. 

The Kaufmann family is worth ?2.42 billion. The Frantschach paper mill made 
the Kaufmanns one of Austria?s richest families. In 2004 Andreas Kaufmann 
one of the beneficiaries bought the camera manufacturer Leica. His day job 
is as a teacher in a Waldorf School.

Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the 
educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy. Its 
pedagogy strives to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical 
skills in an integrated and holistic manner.

Howard