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.

Our 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.

Nicolaas Zerbst

Interim Managing Director and Chief Operations Officer

Nicolaas Zerbst has been appointed as interim managing director and will for the time being manage the group together with managing director Emese Weissenbacher. Nicolaas Zerbst has been Chief Operations Officer at MANN+HUMMEL since February 2019. Most recently he worked as Vice President Global Operations at Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KG in Esslingen/Germany. Before that, he worked for Faurecia and Ford.

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.

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.