Gerhard A.
Meinl, a German businessman and politician, died on March 1, 2026. Born Gerhard Anton Meinl on September 5, 1957, in Kempfenhausen, Upper Bavaria, he lived in Geretsried from childhood and later studied law and philosophy in Munich and Fribourg.
After completing both German state law examinations, he trained as a brass instrument maker and trumpet player before joining the family firm in 1984. A member of the seventh generation of his family to work in musical instrument making, he later helped found the TA Musik group in 1991 and opened a brass-instrument factory in Markneukirchen in 1994.
Gerhard Anton Meinl (5 September 1957 – 26 February 2026) was a German instrument maker and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).