The FAG Kugelfischer Foundation is an incorporated public foundation with headquarters in Schweinfurt/Germany and was established in 1983.

The foundation object is the promotion of science, research and teaching in the field of scientific engineering related to bearing technology. Bearings technology incorporates rolling bearings, plain bearings and magnetic bearings in mechanical engineering and the automotive and aerospace industries for both rotary and linear motion, and the developments, applications and processes associated with it.

Promotion concept

• Scientific treatises from the field of bearing engineering by offering the Innovation Award.
• Promotion of school development

Foundation bodies

Foundation council

• Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, Chairwoman
  Co-owner of the Schaeffler Group
• Dr. Jürgen M. Geißinger, Vice Chairman
  Chairman of the managing board of the Schaeffler Group
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Udo Lindemann
  Chair of Product Development, TU München
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka
  Chair of System Reliability and Machine Acoustics, TU Darmstadt
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald Meerkamm
  Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Brecher
  Laboratory for Machine Tools, RWTH Aachen

Foundation Board

• Klaus Widmaier, Chairman of Foundation Board
  Council President Schaeffler Group Industrial, Personnel Department
• Dr. Arbogast Grunau, Vice Chairman of Foundation
  Leader Product Development, Member of the Management Schaeffler Group Industrial

Management

• Werner Parwoll, Werner.Parwoll@schaeffler.com
  Lawyer
  Director Human Resources,
  Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
• Ellen Matthieß, Ellen.Matthiess@schaeffler.com
  Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG