Holger Czukay

German krautrock musician, born 24 March 1938 in the Free City of Danzig (today Gdansk, Poland), died 5 September 2017 in Weilerswist (near Cologne), Germany, [aged 79]. He studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963–1966, and in 1968 co-founded the German rock group Can, for whom he played bass guitar, as well as undertaking most of their recording and engineering.