Henning Schmitz, born December 26, 1953 in Germany, is a member of the electro-pop group Kraftwerk. December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Electropop is a genre of synthesizer pop music which flourished during the early 1980s, although the first recordings were made in the late 1970s. ... Album cover of Trans-Europe Express (1977). ...
He studied at the Musikhochschule Rheinland and the FH Düsseldorf, and in 1980 he received his Diplom-Ingenieur qualification (the German equivalent of a Master of Science degree) in sound and image technology.
He has also created various pieces of music and sound effects for radio programmes produced by WDR since the mid-1980, currently also works as a freelance lecturer at the Robert-Schumann-Institut and in addition undertakes occasional sound production work on other artists' projects. The Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) is a public broadcaster in the German Bundesland North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office is in Köln. ...