Markus Liebherr

Markus Liebherr (born March 30, 1948 in Germany , legal domicile in Bulle ; † August 10, 2010 ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and owner of MALI International AG, which he founded in 1994. He was one of the five children of Hans Liebherr , the founder of the construction machinery company Liebherr .

Life

Markus Liebherr studied mechanical engineering and even then had an increased interest in special agricultural vehicles. In the 1980s he held the same shares in what was then Liebherr Holding as his brothers Hubert , Willi and his sister Isolde .

As the Liebherr Group headquartered Bulle in canton Friborg moved, he gave up his shares in the company and founded in 1994 the MALI group on the Heinrichsburg in Eberhardzell in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia , the the the logo Schlüter carries -Bären.

After the Bavarian tractor manufacturer Anton Schlueter Munich ceased production in the early 1990s, Mali developed an unofficial successor. Liebherr had already equipped some Schlüter tractors with Liebherr engines. Only a few prototypes of the two models of the Mali trac with 250 and 300 hp were built, although the concept with a sprung front axle, 50 km / h top speed, a large cab with a rotatable driver's platform and a removable power lift and hydraulic block was groundbreaking. However, they were not satisfied with the tried and tested gearboxes, so the project was initially put on hold. In July 2009, Markus Liebherr acquired the financially troubled English football club FC Southampton .

Markus Liebherr passed away on the night of August 10, 2010 at the age of 62.

MALI International

The MALI Group focuses on the development and market launch of off-road products . For these vehicles, she develops transmission technology, injection technology, development, vehicle construction, control technology. The company's end customers are forestry companies , municipalities , road maintenance companies , farmers or even disaster control with all of its equipment carrier vehicles . The company consists of five independent companies:

• CRT Common Rail Technologies AG, Beringen SH
• MALI Motan, Beringen
• BSG Bodensee control units, Immenstaad
• MALI special vehicles, Eberhardzell , Upper Swabia
• MALI Spezialfahrzeugbau GmbH, Schönebeck (Elbe)

At Agritechnica 2009, the world's largest trade fair for agricultural technology, Mali presented its trac 140 system carrier for municipal applications. In addition, the Kirowez importer L&K (Land and Motor Vehicle Technology Stadtilm) showed a 400 HP articulated handlebar with the continuously variable Mali WSG 250 transmission. MALI Spezialfahrzeuge GmbH in Schönebeck filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

family tree

The following family tree shows the Liebherr line.

Hans Liebherr (1915–1993)

Hans Liebherr Jr. (* 1945)

Willi Liebherr (* 1947)

Markus Liebherr (1948-2010)

Isolde Liebherr (* 1949)

Hubert Liebherr (* 1950)

Christina Liebherr (* 1979)

daughter

son

Jan Wilhelm Liebherr (* 1976)

Sophie Desirée Albrecht-Liebherr (* 1980)

Stephen Albrecht

Philipp Johannes Liebherr (* 1985)

Madeleine Marie Vitinis-Liebherr (* 1983)

William Paul-Edouard Liebherr (* 1991)

Charlotte Alice Mathilde Liebherr (* 1991)

Katharina Liebherr (* 1976/77)

Stéfanie Wohlfarth (* 1979)

Patricia Rüf (* 1981)

Johanna Platt (* 1985)

Wilhelmina Albrecht (* 2015)

Noah Liebherr (* 1999/00)

Web links

• Website of MALI International AG
• Freiburg entrepreneur Markus Liebherr dies , Tages-Anzeiger from August 15, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company Details: DMWSL 613 Limited . Companies House . Retrieved April 2, 2010.
2. ↑ mali-group.com: "Our company founder and managing director, Mr. Markus Liebherr, died on Tuesday night at the age of 62."
3. ↑ Bieler Tagblatt : “Traditionsverein Southampton saved”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 8, 2009, accessed January 31, 2010  
4. ^ The Daily Telegraph : "Southampton rescued by Markus Liebherr takeover" , July 8, 2009, accessed on January 31, 2010
5. ↑ Volksstimme : “Mali Spezialfahrzeugbau is insolvent: No more tractors from Schönebeck” , September 1, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2017
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Pirmin Schilliger: Liebherr: excavators for billionaires. In: Handelszeitung . Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland , June 29, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Liebherr part à Monaco. In: La Gruyère . November 23, 2000, accessed November 21, 2019 (French). 
8. ↑ Peter Jegen: Almost everything under control. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 19, 2007, accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Simon Knecht: Agreement. (PDF) Obersiggenthal municipality , April 1, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Liebherr family. In: Handelszeitung . Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland , November 2018, accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Liebherr. In: Handelszeitung . Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland , November 2018, accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Stéfanie Wohlfarth (lic. Oec. Publ.). In: liebherr.com. Liebherr , accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Patricia Rüf (lic. Oec. Publ./B. Eng.). In: liebherr.com. Liebherr , accessed on November 21, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Baptisms. (PDF) In: Horizons. June 14, 2015, p. 22 , accessed November 21, 2019 .