With 8,500 employees and 1.4billion Deutschmarks in annual sales, the largest technical inspectionassociation is formed in Germany.
On January 1, 1996, TÜV Bayernand TÜV Südwest joined to create TÜV Süddeutschland AG (called TÜV SÜD AG from2005). TÜV Hessen became part of the new company based on a resolution at themembers’ meeting in March of that year.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl Eugen Becker,CEO of the newly founded stock corporation and key architect of the merger,wanted to continue expanding the company, especially overseas.
“Ourstrategy is to become number one in safety-related services so that we canfollow our customers as partners to wherever our advice provides them withcompetitive advantages.” Günter Häfner played a decisive role in creating thenew organisza-tion’s groundbreaking legal structure.
