Hans Beck Hans Beck Hans Beck (6 May 1929, Greiz – 30 January 2009, Markdorf) was the German inventor of Playmobil toys. He is thus often called "The Father of Playmobil". Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf. He trained as a cabinet maker and made small toy vehicles and figures for his younger siblings. He presented his model airplanes to Horst Brandstätter, owner of local toy company Geobra Brandstätter, who took him on, and asked him to develop toy figures for children. As a hobby Beck built ultra-lightweight model aircraft for flying indoors. He competed in
Claus Bech-Danielsen Claus Bech-Danielsen Claus Bech-Danielsen is a Danish professor in architecture and spatial planning at the Aalborg University, where he is also Head of Department at the Center for Housing Research. As part of his research, Claus Bech-Danielsen has been the principal investigator of a project designed to evaluate the renovation of social housing between 2014-2016. Furthermore, he has single-handedly carried out a project which explored trends in house building with the aim to chart the direction of future projects. Claus Bech-Danielsen graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1991 with an MA in Architecture. In 1996, he received PhD