Professor Berthold Leibinger
retired as chairman of the
Supervisory Board of the
TRUMPF Group at the end
of 2012. Dr. Jürgen
Hambrecht, former chairman
of the Supervisory Board of
the BASF SE, has been
elected his successor.

Professor Leibinger had a
long and close association
with the TRUMPF company,
which he joined in 1950 as an
apprentice mechanic. After
studying mechanical
engineering at Stuttgart
Technical University and
working for two years in the
USA, he returned to
TRUMPF in 1961 as the
company’s chief designer.

In 1964 he became
technical manager and
partner, and in 1978 took
over as president. In 2005 he
handed over operational
responsibility to his daughter
Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller.