Mourning Klaus Riemenschneider

As the right-hand man and confidant of company founder Georg H Endress, Klaus Riemenschneider played a decisive role in the development of the company for many decades. He influenced the strategic course and is considered the architect of the Group’s modern structure. He served as a coach and mentor to generations of managers at Endress+Hauser.

Klaus Riemenschneider enjoyed a stellar reputation within the company and earned the trust of the shareholder family. When the Group set up a Supervisory Board alongside the Executive Board in 2002, Klaus Riemenschneider was appointed president, a position he held until the end of 2013. For three decades he was also involved in the Georg H Endress Foundation, of which he was president until the end. Here he supported the region’s universities and cross-border cooperation.