Markus Liebherr

Markus Liebherr ( born March 30, 1948 in Germany, home right in bull; † 10 August 2010) was a Swiss businessman and owner of which he founded in 1994 MALI International AG. He was one of five children of Hans Liebherr, the founder of the Construction Group Liebherr.

Life

Markus Liebherr studied engineering and even then had an increased interest in specialized agricultural vehicles. He stopped in the 1980s as his brothers Hubert, Willi and his sister Isolde same shares at the then Liebherr Holding.

When the Liebherr Group moved its headquarters to Bulle in the Canton of Fribourg, he gave back his shares in the company and in 1994 founded the MALI group on the Heinrichsburg at Eberhardzell in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia, which bears the Schlüter - bear in the logo.

After the Bavarian tractor producer Anton Schlüter München its production ceased in the early 1990s, Mali has developed an unofficial successor. Liebherr had previously provided some Schlüter tractors with Liebherr engines. Of the two models of Mali trac with 250 and 300 PS Only a few prototypes were built, although the concept with sprung front axle, 50 km / h top speed, large cabin with rotatable stand-on and removable hitch and hydraulic block was groundbreaking. With the proven transmissions however, was not satisfied, so the project was put on hold. In July 2009, Markus Liebherr bought the financially strapped English football club FC Southampton.

Markus Liebherr died on the night of 10 August 2010 at the age of 62 years.

MALI International

The MALI group has its focus on the development and market introduction of products of the off-road area. For these vehicles, they developed gear technology, injection technology, development, automotive, control technology. End customers of the company are forestry enterprises, municipalities, road authorities, farmers or civil protection, with all its equipment carrier vehicles. The company consists of five independent companies:

  • CRT Common Rail Technologies AG, Beringen SH
  • MALI Motan, Beringen
  • BSG Bodensee control devices, Immenstaad
  • MALI special vehicles, Eberhardzell, Upper Swabia
  • MALI Spezialfahrzeugbau GmbH, Beautiful (Elbe )

At Agritechnica 2009, the world's largest exhibition for agricultural machinery, Mali presented his trac -140 system support for local applications. In addition, a 400 -horsepower articulated tractor with the continuously variable Mali was shown WSG- 250 transmission from Kirovetz importer L & K.

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