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Paul Gauselmann, founder of the historic <strong>Merkur Group<\/strong>\u2014a company that served as a benchmark for the German and European amusement machine sector for decades\u2014has passed away at the age of 91, after writing a fundamental chapter in the history of the sector. He was always seen as an entrepreneur-inventor capable of building an internationally significant industrial group from a self-started business.  <\/p>\n<p>No further details regarding the circumstances, cause of death, or industry reactions are currently available, pending official confirmation from Merkur Group or other industry publications.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Gauselmann&#8217;s story remains linked to one of the most significant chapters in the history of German and international coin-op, an industry that has seen profound technological and regulatory transformations over recent decades, and to which the entrepreneur contributed for a long period as a representative and leading figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Gauselmann, the German entrepreneur considered one of the founding fathers of the international coin-op industry, has passed away at the age of 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[673,674,676,677],"class_list":["post-32415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-apparecchi-da-intrattenimento","tag-coin-op","tag-merkur-group","tag-paul-gauselmann"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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