Siegfried E. Loch

Siegfried Loch is a veteran of the business. He entered the record industry when he was nineteen and quickly distinguished himself, becoming the manager of Liberty/United Artists in Germany at the age of 25, the youngest record boss in the business. He then became president of WEA-Germany (in 1971) and president of WEA-Europe (in 1982). He worked for the record majors until the end of the nineteen-eighties and discovered and produced big-name artists like Klaus Doldinger, The Rattles, Katja Ebstein, Amon Düül, Can, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Marius Müller-Westernhagen and Al Jarreau – to name but a few. In 1998 Loch was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the German Association of Record Reviewers (Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik). All the while he had nursed an ambition to have his own record label and finally, in 1992, The ACT Company was born.