Until he was called up for the Imperial Airship Service, the company’s founder, Rudolf Hensel, completed a commercial apprenticeship at the long-established Ahrens paint and stain factory in Hamburg.
After the end of the war, Rudolf Hensel deepens his knowledge as an industrial paint salesman in the field service of various Hamburg paint and varnish factories. This activity provided him with numerous contacts to painting companies and the Deutsche Reichsbahn, so that founding his own company seemed promising.