After completing an apprenticeship at the Saarland Credit Bank, he studied German, History, Philosophy and Economics.
Activities of note included the "Euro-World" project, a competition where over 1000 children suffering from cancer painted designs for the forthcoming Euro coins.
[1] Europoint also commissioned the illuminated Euro sign that stands outside the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
After Europoint was dissolved in 2002, ownership of the sign was transferred to the then newly formed Frankfurter Kultur Komitee.
[2] Manfred Pohl has written numerous histories of German companies and business ventures, among them Deutsche Bank, M. DuMont Schauberg,[3] Hochtief and the Baghdad Railway.