Klaus Bender

Klaus W. Bender ( born 1938 in Darmstadt ) is a German journalist and author.

Life

He studied in Munich and later in Cologne, Economic and Social Sciences and graduated in 1964 with a degree in Business Administration. Immediately thereafter, he joined the Research Institute of the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiftung. This sent him in 1966 to their new regional office in Japan.

1970 Bender ventured there the long-planned jump into journalism. He reported now from Tokyo about Japanese economic issues, first as a freelance journalist for a number of German and Swiss regional newspapers, then as a "fixed -free " for Handelsblatt and Der Spiegel. 1972 Bender was an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ ). From Tokyo he reported now exclusively for the FAZ from the Asian region about politics, economy and culture. Research trips have taken him to all the countries of South and East Asia, except Indochina. Highlights included trips to China, North Korea and the eastern part of the Soviet Union.

After 14 years of Japan Stay Bender was transferred in 1980 to Europe and now reported from Rome for the FAZ on the Italian economy as well as selected countries in the Mediterranean region. After 12 years in Italy, the fall of the Berlin Wall Bender brought the beginning of 1992 to Austria, where he worked from Vienna as FAZ economics correspondent for Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

In summer 2000, Bender retired prematurely from active journalism to get a nonfiction book about the international high-security print industry - produces banknotes, passports, credit cards, etc. - to write, but his newspaper was connected as a writer for special topics. In view of the upcoming European single currency, the euro, he had begun parallel to its associated with many traveling correspondent activity in 1996 with the collection of material on this subject. In the course of this research revealed Bender in 2000 in the newspaper the failure pressure of several hundred million Euro banknotes 100 through the high security printer Giesecke & Devrient. Later, Bender reported in the newspaper as the first of the events surrounding the privatization of federal printing plant in Berlin.

Published in 2004, Bender the sum of its many years of research on the high-security printing industry in the book " Money Maker, the most secret profession in the world ". It is the first book worldwide about this industry and was even welcomed by the critical industry, was in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on the bestseller list. Appeared in 2006 in an updated version of the English translation under the title " Money Makers, the secret world of banknote printing" again at J. Wiley.