Manfred Schütz

Born in 1950 in Bamberg, Germany and lived in Hannover since 1959. Opened his first small record store in 1974 and later other ones in different German cities. Mostly known as the founder of distribution companies Boots Plattenladen / Boots (5) (1980-1984) and SPV GmbH (since 1984), and more recently MIG-Music GmbH. In 1979, focus was shifted to distribution companies parallel with retail, and a change to production and distribution in 1983, that lead to the important distributor SPV GmbH in 1984.