Organization and management

More than 20,000 employees worldwide at more than 80 locations are working together to build on the success of MANN+HUMMEL. Our company management supports them with its organizational experience, strong management and an international, comprehensive corporate strategy.

Five managing directors are responsible for planning the global operations and leadership of the company. Learn more about the members of the company management, their organization and the content of their work.

Emese Weissenbacher

Chief Financial Officer

Emese Weissenbacher has been Chief Financial Officer at MANN+HUMMEL since July 2015. The business studies graduate joined the company in 1994. After positions in different departments she was previously Group Vice President Europe and was responsible for a total of seven plants and roughly 3,000 employees in Europe.

Kai Knickmann

President & General Manager Automotive OEM & Industrial Filtration

Kai Knickmann has been the managing director responsible for Automotive OEM & Industrial Filtration since March 2016. The chartered engineer is specialized in the field of combustion engines and automotive engineering. He joined MANN+HUMMEL in 1999. Since then he has had a number of different managerial positions in the area of research and development for the automotive original equipment market. As a result he is well familiar with customer requirements and technological challenges.

Josef Parzhuber

President & General Manager Automotive Aftermarket

Josef Parzhuber has been president of the automotive aftermarket business unit since 2016. The business studies graduate was previously responsible at MANN+HUMMEL for the area of water filtration and also worked for MANN+HUMMEL Asia Pacific. He was based in Singapore for a number of years and was able to acquire valuable knowledge of the Asian market.

Hansjörg Herrmann

Chief Operations Officer

Hansjörg Herrmann has been Chief Operations Officer and a member of the company management since January 2016. The chartered engineer joined the company in 2011 and took over responsibility for the German locations of MANN+HUMMEL. In the following years he also assumed responsibility at an international level and managed the company locations within Europe. As COO the focus of his work is the global production operations of MANN+HUMMEL.

Company history

The first products were fabric air filters made in Ludwigsburg. Today, after more than seven decades, we are the global market leader for filtration with locations on all continents. MANN+HUMMEL can look back on an eventful, long and successful company history.