Gerold Fleissner, pioneer of the textile, man-made fiber and nonwovens industries passed away at 92 years old. With Gerold Fleissner, the complete textile industry has lost a visionary person with activity, responsibility and social commitment who has enriched all the industry with his inventions worldwide. In 1984, Gerold Fleissner took over the general management of the company with more than 800 employees, after his brother had died. Before that time he was responsible for the technical management. The foundation of the Fleissner company was laid by Johann Christian Fleissner 1848 in Asch, Bohemia, with a blacksmith's workshop with eight journeymen. In the next generation, Karl Fleissner started to produce steel constructions, lifts, centrifuges, household washing machines, dyeing apparatus and other textile machinery; soon a foundation was added. In 1929, with Hans Fleissner, father of Gerold, drying of textiles became the favorite sector and he developed the fir