Schaeffler Automotive Aftermarket GmbH & Co. KG

The Schaeffler FAG Foundation is an incorporated public foundation with headquarters in Schweinfurt/Germany and was established in 1983.

It was established in 1983 and is led by the Schaeffler Group today. The foundation object is the promotion of science, research and teaching in the field of scientific engineering related to bearing technology. Bearings technology incorporates rolling bearings, plain bearings and magnetic bearings in mechanical engineering and the automotive and aerospace industries for both rotary and linear motion, and the developments, applications and processes associated with it.

Promotion concept

• Scientific treatises from the field of bearing engineering by offering the Innovation Award.
• Promotion of school development

Foundation bodies

Foundation council

• Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, Chairwoman
  Co-owner of the Schaeffler Group
  Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board
• Dr. Jürgen M. Geißinger, Vice Chairman
  President and CEO of Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Brecher
  Laboratory for Machine Tools
  RWTH Aachen
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka
  Chair of System Reliability and Machine Acoustics
  TU Darmstadt
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Udo Lindemann
  Chair of Product Development
  TU München
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald Meerkamm
  alumnus Chair of Engineering Design
  Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Foundation Board

• Klaus Widmaier, Chairman of Foundation Board
  Executive Vice President Human Resources
  Schaeffler Group Industrial
• Rainer Hundsdörfer
  Schaeffler AG
  Member of the Executive Board Industrial
  President Industrial
• Dr. Arbogast Grunau
  Leader Product Development
  Member of the Management Schaeffler Group Industrial