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Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG is a prestigious German audio technology manufacturer founded in 1945 by Dr. Ing. Fritz Sennheiser along with seven fellow University of Hannover engineers, initially as Laboratorium Wennebostel (Laboratory W) in the village of Wennebostel, municipality of Wedemark, before being renamed Sennheiser electronic in 1958. Operating from their headquarters at Am Labor 1, 30900 Wedemark, Deutschland, near Hanover, the family-owned company has evolved over 80 years from a small laboratory founded in a farmhouse into one of the world's leading audio equipment manufacturers with over 2,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 50 countries. Under the current leadership of third-generation co-CEOs Daniel Sennheiser and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser (grandsons of founder Fritz Sennheiser) who took over management in 2015, supported by an Executive Management Board including COO Dr. Andreas Fischer, CTO Markus Redelstab, CFO Steffen Heise, alongside VPs Greg Beebe (Professional Audio), Ron Holtdijk (Business Communication), and Ron Oehl (CEO Georg Neumann GmbH), the company specializes in premium equipment for professional audio markets including microphones, headphones, wireless systems, conference systems, and loudspeakers. Sennheiser has achieved numerous technological breakthroughs including the world's first shotgun microphone (MD 82, 1956), the revolutionary HD 414 open-back headphones (1968) which became the bestselling full-size headphones of all time, the legendary MD 421 microphone (1960) with over 500,000 units produced in 60+ years, and cutting-edge innovations like the limited-edition Orpheus electrostatic headphones (1991, 2016), AMBEO Immersive Audio technology, Digital 9000 uncompressed digital audio transmission systems, and Spectera wireless ecosystem. The company maintains its reputation for finely engineered audio solutions across studios, conference rooms, stages, and broadcast applications while operating independent manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland, and the US, with the professional audio division remaining family-owned after Sonova Holding AG's €200 million acquisition of the consumer audio division in May 2021. Contactable at +49 5130 600 0 and [email protected], with career opportunities available through sennheiser.referrals.selectminds.com, Sennheiser maintains strong social media presence through Instagram (@sennheiser with 676K followers), LinkedIn (163,009 followers), Twitter (149.5K followers), Facebook, and YouTube, representing nearly eight decades of German engineering excellence and audio innovation that continues shaping the future of sound technology globally.