Continuity at the front of Ziehl-Abegg
Germany, Künzeslau: The Entrepreneur Uwe Ziehl hands over the chair of the Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg at the turn the year.
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Germany, Künzeslau: The Entrepreneur Uwe Ziehl hands over the chair of the Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg at the turn the year.
Dennis Ziehl will follow his position as Director of the Supervisory Board. “I highly thank our father for this excellent technical development of the global, very well-positioned company within the last 20 years”, he says. Now, Sindia Ziehl also counts as a member of the Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg. Dennis and Sindia Ziehl are great-grandchildren of the founder of the company Emil Ziehl. Furthermore, Dennis Ziehl is working full time as director of the ZIEHL industrie-elektronik GmbH in Schwäbisch Hall and is additionally a member of the IHK general assembly.
“Within many companies, a generation change comes rough and with problems – Uwe Ziehl worked for decades precisely on the fact that we can now smoothly continue our global successful course as technology leader”, said the president of the Executive Board, Peter Fenkl.
Uwe Ziehl is to be considered as entrepreneur with lifeblood and with great technical comprehension. For excellent entrepreneurial efforts and in order to thank him for his special services for the economy of Baden-Württemberg, Nils Schmid, Minister of Finance and Economy, handed him the Medal of Economy in Schwäbisch Hall.
Already during his college time, Uwe Ziehl founded ZIEHL industrie-elektronik GmbH & Co KG in Schwäbisch Hall, a producer of measuring and control devices. Ziehl-Abegg grew to a globally leading producer of ventilation fans-and air conditioning technology as well as elevator drives. In 1973 Ziehl-Abegg entered the international market. Year 2001 marked the transition to a family-owned stock company. In 2005, Uwe Ziehl took over the Chair of the Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg.
Today, the company has 4,300 employees, of which 2,400 in the region Hohenlohe (Künzelsau, Bieringen, Kupferzell). Ziehl-Abegg employs a high number of trainees and students with dual education who receive an unlimited working guarantee by signing their contract, and they make about 10 % of the total number of employees.
Apart from his professional commitment, Uwe Ziehl supports the promotion of technical jobs in pre-schools, primary schools, and technical higher education institutions.
Source: Ziehl-Abegg SE