Mahle snares Bosch tech chief to be its new chairman

The Supervisory Board of Mahle GmbH has appointed Wolf-Henning Scheider as the new chairman of the Mahle Management Board with effect from July 1, 2015. He will join the Mahle Group on April 1, 2015 and will initially assume the role of vice-chairman of the Management Board.

Wolf-Henning Scheider has been employed at Bosch, the largest global automotive supplier, since 1987. During this time, he has taken on increasingly greater responsibilities within the Bosch Group. In 2010, he was appointed a member of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH and since 2013 has had overall responsibility for the automotive technology division.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz K. Junker, who has held the role of chairman of the Mahle Management Board since 1996, will transfer to the Supervisory Board of Mahle GmbH and to MABEG, the shareholders’ committee with voting rights, when Scheider takes over as chairman of the Management Board. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Junker will replace the chairman of both committees, Dr. Klaus P. Bleyer, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 1993.

As a leading global development partner for the automotive and engine industry, Mahle offers unique systems competence in the combustion engine and engine peripherals. With its three business units – Engine Systems and Components, Filtration and Engine Peripherals and Thermal Management – the Mahle Group ranks among the top three automotive systems suppliers worldwide.

All of the group's non-automotive activities are combined in the industry business unit. These encompass products from the application areas of large engines, filtration, and thermal management for industrial purposes. The aftermarket business unit serves the independent spare parts market with Mahle products in OE quality.

Mahle has a local presence in all major world markets. In 2014, some 64,000 employees at more than 140 production locations are expected to generate sales of around euros 10 billion (Rs 77,450 crore).. At 10 major R&D centres in Germany, Great Britain, the USA, Brazil, Japan, China and India, more than 4,500 development engineers and technicians are working on forward-looking concepts, products and systems.