Gerry Weber: fashion pioneer Gerhard Weber has died

The founder of the fashion manufacturer Gerry Weber, Gerhard Weber, is dead. He died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday at the age of 79, the company said.

Halle / Westphalia -

, who founded the fashion empire from the Westphalian province in 1973 with his partner

, had not been involved in the company since last year.

In the course of the restructuring of the ailing fashion manufacturer, he, like all existing shareholders, left the company without compensation in the course of a restructuring capital cut. Weber had shaped the company's fashion style for decades. He was also known through the

in Halle,

named after the company 

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