Lawo Company Founder Peter Lawo Passed Away
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Peter Lawo, founder of the German company for broadcast and media technologies named after him, passed away on November 24, 2022, at the age of 85.
The committed engineer and entrepreneur founded today's Lawo AG in 1970 and laid the foundation for the company's worldwide reputation and economic success with innovative audio products and uncompromising quality standards.
Peter Lawo developed an electronic sound processor for the music of contemporary composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen.
Based on this success, in the early 1980s, Lawo used computer technology in its mixing consoles and built the "Programmable Audio Control" (Programmierbare Ton-Regie, PTR) with analog signal processing and digital control of all mixer settings, for which Lawo developed motorized faders in-house. With this system, the Lawo company established itself as a manufacturer of large, high-quality broadcast mixing consoles with innovative solutions and outstanding sound.
In 1999, Peter Lawo handed over the reins of the company to his son Philipp Lawo, under whose leadership Lawo developed into one of the pioneers of IP technology in broadcasting and one of the world's leading suppliers of network, control, audio and video systems.
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