fischer forum with BASF boss Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht
Football took second place during the sixth fischer forum last Friday in Tumlingen. Addressing an audience of around 230, guest speaker Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, CEO of BASF, found clear words on politics and business.
“Dr. Hambrecht enjoys an immense reputation among the German business community. People listen to him – also in Berlin”. This is how Professor E.h. Senator mult. E.h. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Klaus Fischer, President, CEO and Owner of the fischer group of companies, introduced the 63 year old guest at the group’s staff restaurant in Tumlingen. During a panel discussion moderated by Jürgen Offenbach, former editor-in-chief of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper, Dr. Hambrecht answered questions from the panel and the floor. During the course of the entertaining meeting, the audience learned a great deal about the stability of the Euro, current political issues and the future (business) perspectives looking to Asia. In his replies the BASF boss always took the clearest of positions, whether addressing issues relating to education, the necessity to help Greece and prop up the Euro, or to the general resistance – in his opinion unjustified - to green genetic engineering. A few hours after the German team had lost to Serbia, he also found a few encouraging words for the football fans: the German team, he believes, could well be in for the semi-finals, maybe even for the title.
The trainees Anissa Meier and Stephan Jooß presented a brief outline of Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht’s life and career. Reutlingen-born Hambrecht got his doctorate in chemistry in 1975 at the Tübingen University. He has been CEO of “BASF – The Chemical Company” since 2003, for which he also worked in Asia for a number of years. The audience also used the opportunity to ask the guest questions on some of the issues addressed.
As a token of thanks for coming and as a souvenir of his stay at our company, he received a molecular model of the base substance of polyamide, the material used in fischer’s plastic plugs. The technical trainees Florian Maier and Edmund Töws presented the gift on behalf of all trainees, before the guests met for a snack after the event to discuss the topics addressed by the panel which ended the evening in a pleasant and convivial atmosphere.
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