About

Giesecke & Devrient is an international technology company which has grown from banknotes, securities and passport printers to a smart cards and security solutions specialist. The company was founded in 1852 and now owns more than 50 subsidiaries globally. More than half of its 11,000 employees are based abroad. Market observers attest to head of legal Reinhard Warmke’s ‘very efficient and competent leadership of a legal department in an internationally operating corporation’. In his role he effectively ‘covers a broad range of legal areas without ever losing the overview’, and in the very sensitive banknote printing and payment systems sector he has managed in an extraordinary manner ‘to operate in a diversity of areas in a very skilful way’.