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Petra and Naren Karattup are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Lara Minakshi Karattup, born on April 8.

Susanne Mautner now works for Allianz Insurance Co. at its headquarters in Munich. She is part of group development, which supports the holding board in strategic issues.

Heiner Reitze and Karin Himmelreich married on July 5 in Frankfurt am Main.

After graduation in Oct. 2002, Dan Little accepted an offer to help found a think tank at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. It delves into issues such as Homeland Security, counter-terrorism, diplomacy — the stuff late-night talk shows deal with. He also divides his time by traveling to the U.K. to study International Relations at Cambridge.

Starting in Jan., Harald Boysen will head the office of the GermanDesk at Allianz Group headquarters in Munich.

MBA lectures in operations management teach students to always be aware of bottlenecks. So Barbara and Dirk Vallerien started their new project after the completion of the studies. The kickoff event was a blue dot on a testing paper on the morning of graduation day. On June 2, Barbara completed the development phase of the project, who is called Leonie Chiara. She weighed 3,240 grams and was 52 centimeters long.

On July 7 Franziska left the home she had occupied for nine months. As a “Kölsches Mädchen” (Cologne Girl), she is notably active, keeping Ana and Christoph Lieth happy and more than a little busy.

Thomas Dorbert, formerly transaction manager for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s debt origination business, is now the team head of structured debt (acquisition) finance within Dresdner Bank’s newly formed structured finance business. He and his team will cover takeover and leveraged finance transactions of German and European midcap corporates, working with strategic investors and financial sponsors.