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Board of Management
Franz Fehrenbach has been chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH and a limited partner of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG since July 1, 2003. His corporate responsibilities comprise Corporate Planning, Corporate Communications including Brand Management and Marketing Communication, Senior Executives, and Real Estate and Facilities.
Franz Fehrenbach was born on July 1, 1949, in Kenzingen (Breisgau), Germany. He is married and has three adult sons. After graduating from high school in 1968, he studied industrial engineering at the University of Karlsruhe,
where he received his degree in 1975.

He is a member of the managing board of the VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry), of the U.S. Board of the Presiding Committee of the BDI (Federation of German Industries), of the Asia Pacific Committee of German Business, and of the BBUG (Baden-Baden Entrepreneurs’ Conference), a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society as well as of the board of the Stifterverband, a joint initaitive of German industries to promote science and higher education, and a member of the supervisory board of BASF SE.

Career stages in the Bosch Group

  • 1975 - Trainee program

  • 1976 - Assistant, Office of the Executive Management, Electrical and Electronic Engine Equipment Division

  • 1978 - Department head in materials planning and logistics, Stuttgart-Feuerbach Alternator Plant

  • 1980 - Commercial Plant Manager, Hildesheim Plant, Göttingen Branch

  • 1982 - Vice-President, Corporate Department for Planning and Controlling

  • 1985 - Vice-President Finance and Administration, Robert Bosch Corporation, Automotive Group (USA)

  • 1988 - Executive Vice-President Finance and Administration, Robert Bosch Corporation, Automotive Group (USA)

  • 1989 - Executive Vice-President Finance and Administration, Starters and Alternators Division

  • 1994 - President, Starters and Alternators Division

  • 1996 - Executive Vice-President Finance and Administration, Diesel Systems Division

  • 1997 - President, Diesel Systems Division

  • 1999 - Deputy Member of the Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH

  • 2001 - Member of the Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH

  • 2003 - Chairman of the Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH
Franz Fehrenbach
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Chairman, Board of Management 
Robert Bosch GmbH
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