References - Board of Directorship

"It goes back to 1999 that we have first met. It was the first meeting between Hitachi Group and BSH Home Appliances Group in Germany and at that time he never mentioned that he can speak fluent Japanese. Only during the next meeting in Tokyo Toedter-San disclosed that he can speak Japanese. I hope we did not say anything stupid in Japanese in the first meeting...

Our joint targets at the many meetings that followed was to establish a Joint Venture Company for the production of washing machines in Thailand. I recall the negotiations were not so easy but Toedter-san played a big role to coordinate, interpret, convince Hitachi and/or BSH and finally managed to establish the company. His open minded character and well established knowledge to Japanese behavior was well appreciated to Hitachi team at that time and during the following years when he served as board member at this German-Japanese-Thai Joint Venture."

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