Shareholders
For four generations, our shareholders have stood firmly behind our corporate group, ensuring reliability and stability. Their primary goal is to continue Brose as an independent family-owned company.
Michael Stoschek
Michael Stoschek is Chairman of the Administrative Board of Brose SE and Shareholder of the Brose Group.
The Brose Group’s Shareholders and Administrative Board members of the Brose Group also include the daughter of Michael Stoschek and the daughter of his sister Christine Volkmann.
In 1971, at the age of 23, the grandson of company founder Max Brose took over the management of the Metallwerk Max Brose & Co. in Coburg.
After training at Siemens and at the University of Nuremberg/Erlangen, Michael Stoschek developed the Upper Franconian company into a global market leader for mechatronic components and systems in the automotive industry. Thanks to his 50 years of responsibility for the Brose brand, Stoschek is one of the most experienced representatives of the automotive supplier industry.
As no successor was available from the fourth generation of shareholders, Stoschek transferred operational management to Jürgen Otto in 2006 and was elected chairman by the shareholders’ meeting.
To assure the long-term orientation of the Brose Group as family-owned company, the fourth generation of Max Brose’s descendants, which has been a member of the group of shareholders since 2011, has adopted a governance code. It defines the roles of the owners as well as the tasks and composition of the corporate bodies.
For Michael Stoschek, entrepreneurship also means taking on responsibility outside of the company. He provides extensive assistance to national and international projects focused on social issues, culture, youth programs and sports. Stoschek supports several social organizations in Ahorn, his home municipality in the district of Coburg, of which he is an honorary citizen. Beyond financial support, Stoschek also assumes a number of honorary leadership roles in social, cultural and sports organizations.
Michael Stoschek was awarded the initiative prize of the “Stiftung Industrieforschung” (Industrial Research Foundation) in 2003, holds the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and was named Family Entrepreneur of the year in 2005. In 2010, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit for his lifetime achievements.
Stoschek also made a name for himself as a competitive athlete: he was the Bavarian Showjumping Champion in 1992 and 1996, and in 2006 he became the European Rally Champion in the category of vehicles built up to 1975.
Maximilian Stoschek
Maximilian Stoschek is Chairman of the Shareholders' Meeting of Brose Group and Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Board of Brose SE.
After completing his training as an industrial clerk at Siemens in Regensburg, Maximilian Stoschek joined Brose in Coburg in 2000 as a project manager in the Central Organization. In this position, his responsibilities included the development and implementation of a group-wide e-business strategy. Subsequently, he worked in the Interior business division, where he was responsible for marketing. In the following years, he played a key role in Brose's presence at the International Motor Show and further developed the trade show concept.
Maximilian Stoschek acquired a private pilot's license in 2003 and decided to become a professional pilot just two years later. In 2008, he founded Brose Helikopter Service (BHS) – now BHS Aviation GmbH – based in Bamberg. This was followed in 2019 by the takeover of DC Aviation Switzerland AG as BHS Aviation AG and the associated change of name of both companies to the BHS Aviation Group, of which he is still the managing director today. BHS Aviation is an aviation company for helicopter and jet charter as well as aircraft management and handling services.
Executive Board
Our Executive Board members steer the strategic direction of our family-owned company in awareness of their responsibility towards our employees, customers and partners. They work closely together and make decisions that go beyond the responsibilities of their individual areas.
Stefan Krug
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Stefan Krug has overall responsibility for the Brose Group's business since October 2024. He is also responsible for the central division Production and thus the global plants as well as quality, logistics, plant planning and production technology.
Stefan Krug studied Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Production Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He began his career with Brose in 1998 as Technical Assistant to the Executive Vice President Operations. Following a variety of leadership positions, he became general manager of the Coburg plant in 2008 and, four years later, also assumed responsibility for production in the seat systems division. As Chief Operating Officer North America, he headed up the plants in this region from 2014 to 2019.
From 2020 to his return to Brose in July 2022, Stefan Krug was Senior Vice President Operations at ZF Friedrichshafen, where he was responsible for global production in the Car Chassis Technology Division.
Bernhard Blauth
Executive Vice President Human Resources and Legal
Bernhard Blauth heads the Central Division Human Resources of the Brose Group.
Bernhard Blauth studied law in Münster, Lausanne and Freiburg and obtained a Master of Law in San Diego. After working as a lawyer in Frankfurt, he headed the HR and legal departments at various industrial companies, including six years at automotive supplier Preh GmbH in Bad Neustadt. From 2013 to mid-2023, Mr. Blauth was Head of Human Resources Rail Vehicles at the family-owned company Knorr-Bremse in Munich. In September 2023, he moved to the Executive Board of the Brose Group.
Michael Brandstetter
Executive Vice President Exterior
Michael Brandstetter is head of the Exterior Business Division and products such as door modules and access and closure systems. He is also responsible for the entire Asian market.
Mr. Brandstetter studied business administration at the University of Regensburg. After holding various management positions within the Door Systems Division, he headed the Door Division in China from 2013. In 2016, he took over the Door Customer Unit for the VW Group and following the reorganization of the business division at the beginning of 2021, he became the head of the Purchasing & Controlling function.
Following the takeover of Brose Sitech, he was responsible for Transformation and Global Sales in the joint venture before being appointed Board Member for Production, Logistics and Sales in April 2023.
Klaus Jungwirth
Executive Vice President Interior
Klaus Jungwirth heads the Interior Business Division and oversees products such as front and rear seat structures, seat components and adjustment systems for the vehicle interior.
Mr. Jungwirth studied mechanical engineering in Nuremberg and began his career at Brose in 1998 as a quality planner. He has held various positions in the seating area to date. In 2003, he took over responsibility for the customer area in North America. After returning to Coburg in 2007, he became head of the seat customer division for BMW, Daimler, GM and Fiat as well as for the China region. From 2018 to 2022, he was responsible for the Seat Product Units and has been Head of the Seat Customer Units since December 2022.
Raymond Mutz
Executive Vice President Drives
Raymond Mutz heads up the Drives Business Division, which includes products for thermal management, the drive train, chassis, brakes and steering systems and with drives for e-scooter.
Raymond Mutz studied business administration at the Würzburg University of Applied Sciences and has worked for Brose since 2006. He headed up Purchasing in North America and took over leadership responsibilities in the Drives Division. He switched positions to head up Controlling Brose Group in 2015. Raymond Mutz had been responsible for the electric air conditioning compressor product unit from 2018 before he took over the Drives Business Division.
Dominic Waldeier
Chief Financial Officer Commercial Administration
Dominic Waldeier is responsible for the commercial division of the Brose Group with the functions Purchasing, Controlling, Information Systems, Finance & Tax and Auditing.
After studying law at the Universities of Bayreuth and Münster and completing his second state examination in law, he began his professional career in 2001 as a tax consultant at KPMG in Düsseldorf. In 2004, Dominic Waldeier moved to Bayer AG, where he held various management positions, including Corporate Finance Head for various regions and CFO of the Middle East region.
In 2020, the fully qualified lawyer joined the Eberspächer Group GmbH & Co. KG Esslingen as Executive Vice President Finance and became Group CFO in 2022. He was appointed CFO of the Brose Group by the Board of Directors on January 1, 2025.
Advisory Board
In addition to our shareholders, our advisory board enriches the constructive dialog within the company.
Dr. Bernd Bohr
Dr. Bernd Bohr is a member of the Advisory Board. Furthermore, he was appointed to the re-established Technology Advisory Board, which assesses the current situation and strategy of our product and manufacturing development twice a year.
He studied mechanical engineering, specializing in production technology, at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Universität in Aachen. After completing his dissertation in control engineering, he held various management positions at Robert Bosch GmbH, including worldwide responsibility for the company's automotive electronics division. Dr. Bernd Bohr managed the development of the antilock braking system and Brakes division before being appointed as member of the Management Board in 1999. From 2003 to 2013, he was chairman of the Bosch’s Automotive Group business sector, with responsibility for the worldwide automotive activities.
Dr. Bernd Bohr is active in the automotive sector in an advisory capacity. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA and a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutz AG.