Eva Mayr-Stihl

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Eva Mayr-Stihl (born January 4, 1935 in Stuttgart ) is a German entrepreneur and founder. She is the sister of the entrepreneur Hans Peter Stihl and the daughter of the company founder Andreas Stihl .

Life

After her business administration and language studies in Munich and Stuttgart Eva Mayr-Stihl 1960 entered the paternal Waiblingen company Stihl one. In 1959, it achieved sales of DM 17.6 million with 638 employees. She initially worked there in the fields of advertising and market research. In 1969 she joined the company's management and took over the marketing department. In 1975 she became managing director for the areas of finance / controlling. In 1998 she became deputy chairwoman and member of the board of Stihl AG, where she continued to be responsible for finance and controlling as well as for IT. She played a decisive role in the development of the Stihl Group during the time when her brother was in charge of the DIHT . In 2002 Eva Mayr-Stihl left the board of directors of the company together with her brother, which at that time had 7,300 employees and a turnover of over 1.5 billion euros. Today Eva Mayr-Stihl is a member of the supervisory board of Stihl AG and deputy chairwoman of the advisory board of STIHL Holding AG & Co. KG.

Together with her husband Robert Mayr, she founded the Andreas-Stihl Foundation named after her father in 1986, which was renamed the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation in 2004. She is also the founder of the Staufer Stele erected in Waiblingen in 2007 .

The Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation has been supporting the “ National Heritage Trees ” initiative since 2019 .

Awards

In November 2009, Eva Mayr-Stihl was with her brother Hans Peter Stihl in the St. Paul Church of price social market economy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation awarded.

In September 2011 Eva Mayr-Stihl received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class as a thank you for her outstanding commitment and her services to the state. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economics of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Nils Schmid , presented the Order of Merit at the company's headquarters in Waiblingen.

In 2012 the city of Waiblingen granted her honorary citizenship .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stihl: Company History 2000–2009 , accessed on May 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ http://www.stihl.de/nikolas-stihl-neuer-vorsitzender-von-stihl-aufsichtsrat-und-beirat.aspx
  3. ^ Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ Waiblingen 2007 on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hans Peter Stihl and Eva Mayr-Stihl awarded the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Social Market Economy Prize at www.stihl.de. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  7. ↑ Prize winners 2009: Eva Mayr-Stihl and Hans Peter Stihl - Prize for the Social Market Economy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV. Accessed on January 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Eva Mayr-Stihl awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on www.stihl.de. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Mayr-Stihl, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart