Franz Fehrenbach

Franz Fehrenbach ( born July 1, 1949 in Kenzingen ) was Managing Director of Robert Bosch GmbH until he took over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board of the company in July 2012.

Life and career

Youth, Training and Study

Franz Fehrenbach attended high school Kenzingen. He played handball in the school team of the high school Kenzingen and TB Kenzingen and was one of the leading players.

In 1968, Fehrenbach from the High School. Subsequently, he studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1975, he passed the exam with a degree in industrial engineering.

Profession

1975 Fehrenbach joined as a trainee in the Robert Bosch GmbH. In 1976, he was a technical consultant in the Executive Office, Division Electrical and electronic engine equipment. In 1978 he was promoted to head of department order and delivery planning, lighting plant in Stuttgart -Feuerbach. After that, he was Commercial Director in 1980 in Hildesheim plant / branch operation Göttingen and in 1982 the main speaker at the Central Department for Planning and Controlling.

In 1985 he went as a commercial mill manager at Robert Bosch Corporation, Automotive Group in the U.S. and was there in 1988 Member of the Executive Board. In 1989 he returned to Germany and became Executive Vice President Finance Administration, Starters and generators. In 1994 he was speaker of the management, business starters and alternators and 1996, Executive Vice President Finance tasks, Diesel Systems Division, 1997 Spokesman of the Executive Board, Diesel Systems Division.

As of 2001, Fehrenbach was a Managing Director of Robert Bosch GmbH and took over July 1, 2003 the presidency of the Bosch board of management of Hermann Scholl, who moved to the top of the GmbH Supervisory Board. His direct responsibilities since then are the key features corporate planning and corporate communication, managerial employees, plants and buildings.

July 1, 2012 Fehrenbach was replaced by Volkmar Denner as Chairman of the Managing Board and Supervisory Board Chairman of the company.

Franz Fehrenbach is also a limited partner of a limited partner of Robert Bosch Industrial Trust KG ( RBIK ). This exerts a total of ten members in the Robert Bosch GmbH of the entrepreneurial ownership functions. The two are complementary Hermann Scholl and Tilman Todenhöfer. The Bosch Industrial Trust KG holds 93 percent of the voting rights and thus essentially determines the Group's strategic orientation.

Management Board and Supervisory Board

Fehrenbach is a member of the Executive Board of the VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry), of the U.S. Board of BDI Presidential ( Federal Association of German Industry ), the Asia - Pacific Committee of German Business, and BBUG Board (Baden -Baden Conference); also a member of the Supervisory Board of BASF, a member of the Foundation Board of the ESMT European School of Management and Technology and a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society.

Private

Franz Fehrenbach is married and has three grown sons.

Honors

Franz Fehrenbach was chosen by the World Wildlife Fund and the Capital magazine "Eco-Manager of the Year 2006" in the field of corporations.