Bolza-Schünemann, who died on 23 July, joined KBA in 1951 as a design engineer and 20 years later was appointed president of the company.

The great-grandson of company founder Friedrich Koenig, Bolza-Schünemann put his signature to more than 250 patents at the company and also played a major role in the technological advances within KBA.

These included the development of its multicolour sheetfed gravure press, the Rembrandt MT III, in the 1950s, the Rotafolio in the 1960s, and the then world’s widest newspaper press, the Jumbo-Courier, in the 1970s.

He was appointed president in 1971, a post he held for 24 years. During this time, the company said Bolza-Schünemann drove major innovations within KBA, as well as a range of acquisitions including Planeta Druckmaschinenwerke in east Germany.

In 1995, he retired as president and joined the company's supervisory board, where he served as deputy chairman until 2006.

According to the manufacturer, it has lost a "visionary entrepreneur, indefatigable inventor and globally respected master of press engineering".