Weber-Hydraulik restructures management team

Weber-Hydraulik GmbH, a family-owned German manufacturer of hydraulic components, announced it is finalizing the succession plan for its management team.

Christine Grotz and Yannick Weber have been co-leading Weber-Hydraulik and its affiliated companies since 2023. (Photo: Weber-Hydraulik)

Effective immediately, Christine Grotz, who has served as CEO since June 2017, is handing over overall operational responsibility to Yannick Weber. Weber has served as chief operating officer (COO) and a member of the executive board since September 2023.

As tech­ni­cal man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Weber is re­spon­si­ble for pro­duc­tion and plant-​related op­er­a­tions for the group’s pro­duc­tion sites in Ger­many, Aus­tria and Poland. In his new role as CEO, he will com­bine his op­er­a­tional ex­pe­ri­ence with over­all re­spon­si­bil­ity for the cor­po­rate group.

In addition, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, Jochen Strauß, cur­rently with MLOG Lo­gis­tics GmbH, will join the Ex­ec­u­tive Board as chief cor­po­rate of­fi­cer (CCO). He will be responsible for the group’s ad­min­is­tra­tive func­tions and the fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of group-​wide processes.

Yannick Weber said the group will continue to be led “with a clear di­vi­sion of re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and a shared vi­sion for its long-​term de­vel­op­ment.”

“For our em­ploy­ees, cus­tomers and part­ners, this care­fully planned tran­si­tion and the new lead­er­ship struc­ture above all rep­re­sent re­li­a­bil­ity and con­ti­nu­ity,” he added.

“It was im­por­tant to me to arrange the suc­ces­sion early and re­li­ably,” said Grotz. “Yan­nick Weber knows our cor­po­rate group, our lo­ca­tions and our mar­kets very well. With Jochen Strauß, we are gain­ing an ex­pe­ri­enced ex­ec­u­tive who sen­si­bly com­ple­ments our fu­ture lead­er­ship struc­ture.”

Grotz, the granddaughter of com­pany founder Emil Weber, will re­main a man­ag­ing part­ner until she steps down from the ex­ec­u­tive board in the spring of 2027 and will then join the ad­vi­sory board. As a shareholder, she will remain closely connected to the company.

“It is of par­tic­u­lar im­por­tance to me and the en­tire fam­ily that the com­pany re­mains au­tonomous and in­de­pen­dent,” Grotz stated. “We have once again ex­pressly reaf­firmed this com­mit­ment as part of the plan­ning for my re­tire­ment. The younger gen­er­a­tions also sup­port this path.”