We have received the sad news that German access and telehandler sales manager Hans Georg Krause has died. He passed away on March 6th at the age of 86, having suffered from ill health over the past few years.
Georg Krause was born in Magdeburg which became part of East Germany after the war, spent most of his career in West Germany. Hans Georg Krause His career in the equipment market, began, as far as we know, when he started working for JCB Germany in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. However he found ‘his niche’ in the access market when he joined UpRight in April 1994 to manage the company’s wholly owned Germany distribution business – Instant Deutschland, a role he fulfilled until he retired, although he served as a consultant to companies in the aerial lift business – to keep busy and his mind active, until around 2014, when his much loved wife Gisela sadly passed away, following a long period of illness. Hans Georg Krause (L) with Holger Johan at Platformers Days George Krause was a true ‘one off’, his former colleagues can all relate numerous anecdotes of ‘George being George’. He could talk his way out of almost any situation, no matter how challenging, and it is almost certain that some of the frequent orders he landed were due to customers giving in to his friendly, eloquent but persistent persuasion – you can just imagine then saying: “OK OK where do I sign!”
He was always impeccably dressed and fastidious about everything, from his car to his office, not to the point of being weird, he just had his act together and liked precision in almost everything he did. In his decade or two in the access business he made a great many friends in the industry and kept in touch with many of them long after he had retired. He and Gisela loved to travel, and spent a great deal of time in Southern Africa, enjoying trips to Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. Georg Krause was a one off, a true character of the German powered access industry of the 1990s and early millennium years. He will be mourned by everyone who knew or worked with him. Rest in peace George.
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