The name is ultimately derived from Middle High German Kuonrât (the keen advisor) from which the German first name "Konrad" is also derived.
It was spun off from the Kienzle clock factory (Kienzle Uhrenfabriken AG) in 1929.
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The original record had no liner notes; the 2004 reissue on RCA Records contained extensive liner notes by Rich Kienzle, who provided a song-by-song summary of the album, along with background information on the latter's creation.
I've Always Been Crazy was reissued in 2004 on RCA Records; the original version had no liner notes, while those present in the reissue were written by Rich Kienzle.
In the 1980s it was merged with Mannesmann as Mannesmann-Kienzle, and in 1991 it was sold to the Digital Equipment GmbH and was renamed Digital-Kienzle Computer Systeme.
Kienzle supports the Hamburg Leuchtfeuer Hospiz which is under the patronage of Hamburg mayor Ole von Beust.
In the 2000s (decade), Kienzle hosted a ZDF program on the German political party's campaigns in the run up to the German federal election, 2002, and is contributing to a ZDF magazine on the economy (WISO) since 2003.
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From 1993 to 2000, he was one of the "combattants" in the weekly ZDF political magazine Frontal, that always featured a controversial debate between the more leftist Kienzle (usually taking the position of the Social Democratic Party of Germany) and the more rightist Bodo H. Hauser (usually taking the position of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany).