Stefan Asenkerschbaumer has been chairman of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH and managing partner of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG since January 1, 2022.
Born in Burghausen in 1956, Stefan Asenkerschbaumer is married and has two children. After a commercial apprenticeship, he was awarded a degree in business education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1982, and a further degree in business administration in 1984. These degrees were followed by a PhD on the subject of innovation management. In 2017, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg appointed him honorary professor. From 2019 until the end of April 2025, he was president of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft (Schmalenbach society for business administration). Asenkerschbaumer has been a member of the BASF supervisory board since April 2022, a non-executive director of the Swiss company Stadler Rail AG since May 2022, and a member of the board of Stifterverband, a German industry association to promote the sciences, humanities, and higher education, since June 2022. During the 20th legislative period (2022–2025), he was appointed to the German federal chancellor’s “Zukunftsrat” policy think tank. Since March 2026, he has been an ad personam Senator of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
