Klaus Fischer (entrepreneur)

Klaus Artur Fischer (born August 17, 1950 in Freudenstadt ) is a German entrepreneur and owner of the fischer group of companies .

Life

After studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz from 1971 to 1975 and graduating as a Dipl.-Ing. FH Fischer joined fischerwerke in 1975 . On April 1, 1976 he became Technical Director, 1980 General Manager. The company was founded by his father, Artur Fischer .

Under Klaus Fischer, the international business of the company, which was founded in 1948, grew in importance. The number of national subsidiaries rose from six (1980) to 47 in 35 countries (2018). This went hand in hand with the diversification of the product range. The fischer automotive systems division (kinematic components for the vehicle interior) goes back to a storage system for compact cassettes (fischer CBOX) introduced in 1981 and is now the second most important pillar of the company. In 2004, fischer Consulting, a process consulting subsidiary, was added as a fourth corporate division. Klaus Fischer expanded the most important business field fastening technology to include chemical fastening systems - also through the acquisition of companies (Upat 1993, Rocca 1997). Since Klaus Fischer took over overall responsibility in 1980, the turnover of the fischer group of companies has increased more than tenfold (from 80 to 887 million euros). The family company sells its products in more than 100 countries.

In the 1980s, Klaus Fischer introduced a model that is binding for everyone working in the company. This mission statement is in addition to the company's objectives and the mission statement of fischer - innovative, responsibly, seriously - defined. In 2001 Klaus Fischer introduced the fischer Process System (fPS), a strategy for the continuous improvement of all company processes based on the Japanese Kaizen concept. Fischer received several awards in 2008 for its process optimization .

In the 1990s he took over the majority of the shares, since 2001 he has owned 98 percent of the shares in the fischer group and one percent each to his sons Frank and Jörg Klaus. Currently (2014) 40% of the shares are held by the two sons and 60% by Klaus Fischer. Son Jörg Klaus took over the company management in spring 2011; about a year later he left the company at his own request. The generation change in the family company has thus failed for the time being. At the beginning of 2018, Klaus Fischer handed over the chairmanship of the management to Marc-Sven Mengis.

The total assets of the Klaus Fischer family were estimated at EUR 500 million in 2008.

Fischer is married.

Other activities

Fischer is an honorary member of the jury for " Top 100 ", an award for the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.

Honors

• Business Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg (January 25, 1996)
• Honorary Senator of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (October 14, 1997)
• Honorary Senator of the University of Stuttgart (October 22, 1999)
• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (July 25, 2001)
• Medal of Honor of the town of Altheim (March 17, 2006)
• Citizen's Medal of the Waldachtal Community (May 9, 2006)
• Honorary Professor at Tongji University Shanghai (January 31, 2007)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (September 4, 2007)
• City seal of Padua, highest award of the university city (April 25, 2009)
• Grashof Medal of the Association of German Engineers (May 14, 2013)
• Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fischer founds a Romanian subsidiary. In: baumarktmanager.de. November 15, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ fastening systems drive revenue for fishermen to continue. In: handelsblatt.de. March 6, 2020, accessed March 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ("Factory of the Year - German GEO Award" for the Denzlingen plant, "Automotive Lean Production Award" for the Horb plant)
4. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 22, 2014, p. 15, Klaus Fischer in the realm of ideas .
5. ↑ Dowel Patriarch disempowered his own son
6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 27, 2018, p. 18, Dübel-Fischer sets the course
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 7, 2018, p. 16, The impatience of the dowel king
8. ↑ manager magazine special . October 2008, p. 69.
9. ↑ Website of the organizer compamedia ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 2, 2016 
10. ^ Hall of Engineers. Retrieved May 15, 2013 . 

Web links

• Short biography on the fischerwerke website