Stepping down from RBIK and the supervisory board
Since he will reach the age limit for members at the end of March 2019, Urs B. Rinderknecht (72) is stepping down from the RBIK and the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH. Rinderknecht has been a limited partner of RBIK since 1996, and a member of the supervisory board since 1998. “The ties between Bosch and Switzerland go back a long way. Urs B. Rinderknecht personifies this special relationship. In the more than 20 years he has belonged to RBIK and supervisory board, he has made many a mark – especially for RBIK,” says Franz Fehrenbach, general partner of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG and chairman of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht (72) is also leaving RBIK for age reasons effective March 31, 2019. Hambrecht has been a limited partner of RBIK since 2006. Speaking of Hambrecht, Fehrenbach says: “He is the epitome of the public entrepreneur, someone who always jumps into action and contributes to political debate whenever he sees the future of Germany as an industrial location at risk. It was this motivation that gave rise to his successful ‘Wissensfabrik’ project.”
Also at the end of March, Prof. Lars G. Josefsson (68) will be stepping down from RBIK after having been a limited partner for ten years. He will also be retiring from the supervisory board on the same date. Josefsson has belonged to the supervisory board since 2009. In April 2019, he will become a member of the Robert Bosch International Advisory Committee. Fehrenbach praises Josefsson as someone whose energy-policy expertise and knowledge of the industry “provided new perspectives for Bosch strategy. And with Lars G. Josefsson joining our international advisory committee, we are glad that this expertise will still be available to Bosch in the future.”
New members of RBIK and the supervisory board from April 2019
Prof. Elgar Fleisch is to become a new member of RBIK. Aged 51, he is a professor of information and technology management at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. He has been a member of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH since 2016.
Dr. Eberhard Veit is also joining RBIK. The 56-year-old engineer is also a member of the supervisory boards of Carl Zeiss AG and TÜV SÜD AG. In addition he is a member of the senate and board of trustees of Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech). Until the start of 2016, he was chairman of the management board of Festo AG.
The third new RBIK partner is Peter Spuhler. The 60-year-old will also be joining the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH. Spuhler is the majority shareholder and president of the supervisory board of the Swiss company Stadler Rail AG. He also sits on the supervisory boards of other companies, including Rieter Holding AG in Winterthur, Autoneum Holding AG in Winterthur, Allreal Holding AG in Zug (all Switzerland), and Evonik Industries AG in Essen, Germany.
Also new to the supervisory board is Martina Koederitz. The 55-year-old business economist is Global Industry Managing Director, Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, and Industrial Products at IBM. Prior to that, as general manager DACH IMT, she was responsible for IBM business in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. She also sits on the executive committee of the German digital association BITKOM, on the supervisory board of innogy SE, the executive committee of the World Economic Council, and the Reutlingen University Council.
Changes in the board of management
Dr. Dirk Hoheisel (60), member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH, will be retiring effective June 30, 2019. Hoheisel, who has a PhD in electrical engineering, has been a member of the board of management since 2012, and in this function responsible for systems integration within the Mobility Solutions business sector, for the Chassis Systems Control, Car Multimedia, Automotive Electronics, and Automotive Steering divisions, and for the Two-Wheeler and Powersports business unit. Hoheisel has worked for Bosch for nearly 29 years.
The supervisory board and shareholders express their thanks to Hoheisel for his many years of good service. “With his technological expertise, Dirk Hoheisel was above all a driving force for the automation of mobility. It is due in great part to his efforts that Bosch is gradually coming closer to its vision of accident-free driving. But it is not only our business with driver assistance systems that has developed so successfully under his leadership. In the area of infotainment systems as well, Bosch is indebted to him for business success and technological triumphs,” says Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH. “Dirk Hoheisel set an important milestone in Bosch history with the decision to build our new wafer fab in Dresden. Semiconductors are the key technology for the internet of things and the mobility of the future,” Denner says. Franz Fehrenbach adds: “Dirk Hoheisel has been instrumental in expanding Bosch activities in the area of two-wheelers and powersports. The two-wheeler business above all offers huge business potential for Bosch. In many emerging markets, two-wheelers are the doorway to individual mobility. Thanks to Dirk Hoheisel, riding a motorcycle has become safer.”
Harald Kröger will be joining the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH effective July 1, 2019, where he will succeed Hoheisel. The 51-year-old electrical engineers is currently president of the Automotive Electronics division. Within the executive management of the division, he is responsible for body electronics, e bikes, innovation management, IoT, software, and quality. Before joining Bosch, Kröger worked for Daimler, among other things as head of engineering for electrics, electronics, and alternative powertrains. Kröger studied engineering and economics at the Leibniz University of Hannover and at Stanford.
