Board of Management

Dr. Jörn Großmann

Member of the Board

Axel Meyer

Member of the Board

Dr.-Ing. Johannes Schmidt

Chairman of the Board

Rudolf Weichert

Member of the Board

Gudrun Degenhart

Member of the Board

Dr. Jörn Großmann

Dr. Jörn Großmann (German citizen, born 1968) has been a member of the INDUS Holding AG Board of Management since January 2019. Up until his move to the INDUS Board of Manage­ment, he worked for the Dutch Group Aalberts Industries N.V., with his last position being sole managing director of Impreglon GmbH in Lüneburg. He previously held various positions at the Georgsmarienhütte Group, initially becoming managing director of Mannstaedt GmbH in Troisdorf and later managing director of GMH Edelstahl Service Center Burg GmbH and GMH Engineering GmbH. Before Dr. Großmann became the managing director of Buderus Feinguss GmbH in Moers, he worked as a development engineer and as technical director for Doncasters Precision Castings GmbH in Bochum, Germany. He studied material sciences and earned a doc-torate in the field of natural sciences.


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Axel Meyer

Axel Meyer (born 1968, German nationality) has been a member of the INDUS Holding AG Board of Management since October 2017. Until joining the INDUS Board of Management, he held various management positions at Schuler AG, most recently as Managing Director of Schuler Pressen GmbH and Head of the Service Division of the Schuler Group, Göppingen. Previously, Axel Meyer worked as a member of the Board of Management of the international management consultancy IMAGIN Prof. Bochmann AG, Eppstein im Taunus. He started his professional career in the Schuler Group's Solid Forming Division - initially in global sales and later as Division Manager. Axel Meyer studied industrial engineering in Germany and the USA and earned a Master of Mergers & Acquisitions (LL.M.) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management while working.


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Dr.-Ing. Johannes Schmidt

Dr. Johannes Schmidt (German citizen, born 1961) has been a member of the Board of Manage­ment of INDUS Holding AG since January 2006. He assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Management in July 2018. Dr. Schmidt was previously the sole managing director of ebm-papst Landshut GmbH, a manufacturer of ventilation motors and fans. During his tenure there, his main achievements included advancing the development of new product platforms and internationalization of production sites. Dr. Schmidt began his career at Richard Bergner GmbH, a manufacturer of electrical instruments from Schwabach. He initially assumed development tasks before rising to the position of managing director during his 12 years at the company. Schmidt, who studied mathematics, gained an engineering doctorate in mechanics at the Technical University of Darmstadt.


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Rudolf Weichert

Rudolf Weichert (German citizen, born 1963) has been a member of the INDUS Holding AG Board of Management since June 2012. Before joining the INDUS Board of Management, he was a partner at accounting firm KPMG for nine years. He spent three of these years in Detroit, Michigan, United States, where he worked mainly with companies in the automotive, engineering, and materials trading industries. Mr. Weichert, who holds a business degree, worked for KPMG for about 20 years, primarily in the firm’s Düsseldorf offices, where he worked mainly with multinational manufacturing corporations.


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Gudrun Degenhart

Gudrun Degenhart (born 1970, German nationality) has been a member of the Board of Management of INDUS Holding AG since October 2023. She has more than 20 years of experience in the management and development of portfolio companies in the Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific regions. A graduate in business administration, she began her career by building up the Central and Eastern European activities of the market-leading manufacturer and construction specialist Lindner Group. After another stint on the board of a SMEs construction technology company, she joined the thyssenkrupp Group. Her positions there included CEO of an international business unit for special lifts and CEO Materials Western Europe and AsiaPacific. Most recently, she served as CEO for the German portfolio companies of the international service group ISS A/S.      


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