20.02.2012

Liebherr’s third generation

The owners of the Liebherr group, president Willi Liebherr and his sister Isolde have assigned a proportion of their shares in Liebherr’s parent company to their children.

This is intended to enable various duties and responsibilities to be transferred to the next generation. In the future individual group divisions will therefore be managed by Isolde or Willi Liebherr jointly with a representative from the family’s third generation which will initially include: Jan Liebherr, Stéfanie Wohlfarth, Sophie Albrecht and Patricia Rüf. All of whom will assume responsibility step by step for corporate management and supervisory tasks.

The aim of the move is to ensure that Liebherr remains an independent family-owned company with a strong family involvement in its day to day management.

The late Hans Liebherr founded Liebherr in 1949 when he introduced a mobile tower crane. Today the company is a group of more than 120 companies worldwide, employing more than 35,000 people. The parent company is Liebherr-International AG, which is based in Bulle, Switzerland and owned entirely by members of the Liebherr family.