Walter Zumtobel (1907–1990) was one of roughly 300 so-called sequestrators in allied-occupied Austria who administered previously German-owned property in Vorarlberg, initially on behalf of the French military government, then based on an administrative law of the Federal Government of Austria. These properties included Michel-Werke in Bregenz and Hard as well as "Werkzeugbau Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lustenau" in Lustenau and "Feinmechanische Werkstätte Josef Maurer" in Wolfurt. He integrated these three formerly German companies into "Elektrogeräte und Kunstharzpresswerk W. Zumtobel KG", which was founded on 1 January 1950 in Dornbirn, thus laying the foundation for today’s Zumtobel Group.