You may combine this font with Interstate Font. The design was selected by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in New York, which was at the time a significant stakeholder in Linotype GmbH. Stempel AG, a key shareholder in Haas, the name was changed to Helvetica an adaptation of Helvetia, the Latin word for Switzerland.
When Walter Cunz updated the design for Linotype GmbH in Frankfurt, a big stockholder in Stempel and a major shareholder in D.