Hans Peter Stihl

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Hans-Peter Stihl (right) on a visit to the GDR, 1989

Hans Peter Stihl (born April 18, 1932 in Stuttgart ) is a German entrepreneur.

Life

As the eldest son of the company founder Andreas Stihl from his first marriage, Hans Peter Stihl joined the Waiblingen-based company Stihl as an assistant to the management team in 1960 after completing his degree in engineering . In 1959, it achieved sales of DM 17.6 million with 638 employees. After his father's death in 1973, he became the sole shareholder of what is now the world's largest manufacturer of chainsaws . In 2002 Stihl left the board of directors of the company as chairman, which at that time had 7,300 employees and a turnover of over 1.5 billion euros. On May 3, 2010, the company announced that Stihl would also resign from its chairmanship of the Advisory Board and Supervisory Board on June 30, 2012. His son Nikolas Stihl became his successor on the advisory board . Hans Peter Stihl has been honorary chairman of both bodies since then.

engagement

As a representative of Gesamtmetall , Hans Peter Stihl conducted collective bargaining for many years. And as DIHT and IHK president, he also had a great influence on German economic policy from 1988 and 1989 to 2001. Since 2001, Stihl has been Honorary President of both the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Stuttgart Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry. At the DIHK he is also a member of the council of elders, and was its chairman until 2009. In addition, from 1983 to 1999 he was Vice President of the Institute for German Economy.

He was also a partner in Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG from 1995 to 2006 and was a member of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH from 1998 to 2006. Before that, from 1988 to 1998, Stihl was on the supervisory board of IBM Deutschland GmbH.

In 2006 Hans Peter Stihl became Honorary Consul of Singapore .

Awards

Stihl is an honorary citizen of the following German municipalities: City of Waiblingen (since 1997), Verbandsgemeinde Prüm (since 2001), the City of Tengen (2002). On November 4, 2010, Hans Peter Stihl was made an honorary citizen in the Brazilian city of São Leopoldo for the sense of responsibility towards society and the environment since the company was founded .

Stihl was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with the Order of Merit 1st Class in 1982 , the Great Cross of Merit in 1992 and the Great Cross of Merit with a Star in 2002. Stihl has been the recipient of the Great Gold Medal of Honor with the Star of the Republic of Austria and the Order of Maryland, Second Class, of the Republic of Estonia since 1996 . In 1995 he received the business medal and in 2001 the medal of merit of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In 2003 he was awarded the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize . In November 2009, Hans Peter Stihl was with his sister Eva Mayr-Stihl in the St. Paul Church of price social market economy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation awarded

Hans Peter Stihl received another honor on November 30, 2012 in the Deutsches Museum in Munich by the German Institute for Invention, which presented him with the Diesel Medal for the most successful innovation. In September 2013 he was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) for his more than 50 years of service to the outdoor power tool industry.

Hans Peter Stihl Prize

A prize was named after Hans Peter Stihl and has been awarded annually since 1999 by the Forum Region Stuttgart eV association , a non-partisan initiative by personalities from the Stuttgart region . The award honors personalities who have made a contribution to the development of the Stuttgart region.

The winners since 1999:

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Brochure “90 Years of STIHL”. (PDF (2.8 MB)) Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Family company: Hans Peter Stihl ushers in a generation change. In: Spiegel Online . May 3, 2010, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ http://www.stihl.de/hans-peter-stihl-ist-neuer-ehrenbuerger-von-sao-leopoldo-in-brasilien.aspx
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ↑ http://www.stihl.de/hans-peter-stihl-erhaelt-dieselmedaille-fuer-erfaltreichste-innovationsleistungs.aspx
  7. ↑ Hans Peter Stihl receives lifetime achievement award ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stihl, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart