News Release from: Rohde and Schwarz
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 January 2006
Schwarz retires after 35 years
Friedrich Schwarz has retired from day-to-day operations after 35 years as member of the Executive Board at Rohde and Schwarz.
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After 35 years as member of the Executive Board at Rohde and Schwarz, Friedrich Schwarz (65) retired from day-to-day operations on 31st December 2005. In this time he served for 10 years as President and CEO. His successor in this role is Michael Vohrer (58).
Vohrer has been with the company for 30 years and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2003.
This demonstrates the company's commitment to continuity.
The three-member Executive Board also includes Manfred Fleischmann (53) and Christian Leicher (36).
Under Friedrich Schwarz's leadership, the electronics company has become a global player.
While remaining an independent family-owned company, Rohde and Schwarz is now represented in 70 countries.
Its own subsidiaries serve 90% of the market.
Friedrich Schwarz, who is the son of one of the company's founders, also turned the company into one of the world's major suppliers in the fields of test and measurement equipment for wireless communications and electronics, secured radiocommunications, broadcasting, and radiomonitoring.
On 1st January 2006, Schwarz handed the company's reins over to Vohrer.
Prior to joining the Executive Board, Vohrer served as Head of the Test and Measurement Division, during which time he greatly expanded the company's market share in this segment.
Manfred Fleischmann and Christian Leicher both became members of the Executive Board in January 2005.
Leicher, who is a grandson of one of the company's founders and who represents the shareholders, joined the global family enterprise at that time, coming from Sony Ericsson.
Manfred Fleischmann has been at Rohde and Schwarz since 1985.
He initially served as Head of quality assurance and then assumed leadership of the Production and Materials Management Division.
In 2001, he became responsible for all of Production, before becoming President and COO in 2005.
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