Micha­el and Chris­ti­an met in New York at the UN after a con­cert for inter­na­tio­nal under­stan­ding, in which Chris­ti­an had sung as bass for the Bay­reuth choir and Micha­el had flown along as mayor of the city of Bay­reuth as patron of the choir. At a late hour in a bar befo­re the return flight, it was, „Are we going to bed or are we going to pull an all-nigh­ter?” Micha­el and Chris­ti­an immedia­te­ly cli­cked and hat­ched a plan tog­e­ther to save huma­ni­ty. With the pro­ject Unter­neh­mer­land, a visi­on of streng­t­he­ning regio­nal small and medi­um-sized busi­nes­ses, Micha­el struck a chord with Chris­ti­an and thus beca­me a foun­ding mem­ber of FTT Foren­sic Dis­co­very GmbH. The Unter­neh­mer­land pro­ject has now been ful­ly absor­bed into our Mensch­Link pro­ject, but has lost none of its ori­gi­nal aim, which is to con­nect entre­pre­neurs in the regi­on and pool their strengths to make a bet­ter life for ever­yo­ne in the regi­on. This has been the gui­ding princip­le throughout Micha­e­l’s life. In his office as mayor of the city of Bay­reuth, for examp­le, he estab­lis­hed dou­ble-ent­ry book­kee­ping and set up a youth par­lia­ment. Last but not least, and true to his gui­ding princip­le, as a lawy­er he natu­ral­ly does­n’t lea­ve his cli­ents out in the cold.