About the Robert Bosch Stiftung

The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of Europe's largest foundations associated with a private company. It works in the areas of health, education, and global issues. With its charitable activities, it contributes to the development of viable solutions to social challenges. For this purpose, the Foundation implements its own projects, enters into alliances with partners, and supports third-party initiatives.

View of the building of the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Michael Fuchs

In Brief

The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of Europe's largest foundations associated with a private company. It works in the areas of health, education, and global issues. With its charitable activities, it contributes to the development of viable solutions to social challenges. For this purpose, the Foundation implements its own projects, enters into alliances with partners, and supports third-party initiatives.
 
The Global Issues support area centers around the topics of peace, inequality, climate change, democracy, migration, and immigration society. When it comes to education, the focus is on individual and organizational learning, while with its support for health, the Foundation is committed to securing a sustainable health care system that focuses more on people.  

The Robert Bosch Stiftung is committed to upholding the values and example of its founder Robert Bosch and continuing his philanthropic work in keeping with the times. The Foundation benefits from over 50 years of experience and a comprehensive global network of experts and practitioners. With the Robert Bosch Academy, it supports interdisciplinary exchange between decision-makers and opinion leaders. The Foundation also supports the work of high-profile, practice-focused think tanks.

The Robert Bosch Stiftung is owner of the Bosch Health Campus in Stuttgart. The Campus draws together all of the Foundation’s institutions and funding activities in the field of health care: the Robert Bosch Hospital, the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, the Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Diseases, the Institute for the History of Medicine, the Irmgard Bosch Learning Center and the Robert Bosch Center for Innovative Health. The Robert Bosch Stiftung is founding partner of the Robert Bosch College UWC in Freiburg and the International Alumni Center in Berlin. The Foundation holds an approximately 94 percent stake in Robert Bosch GmbH and finances its operations from the dividends it receives from this holding. Since it was established in 1964, the Robert Bosch Stiftung has invested over 2 billion euros in charitable work.

Background

In 1964, the Bosch family's inherited shares in the company Robert Bosch GmbH were transferred to an estate - Vermögensverwaltung Bosch GmbH - that Robert Bosch had founded back in 1921. This was subsequently renamed Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH (Robert Bosch Foundation) in 1969. The Foundation still holds about a 94 percent of Robert Bosch GmbH's capital stock.

Robert Bosch - Entrepreneur, citizen and philanthropist

The Bosch Constitution

The Foundation exclusively and directly serves charitable purposes. As a shareholder of Robert Bosch GmbH the Foundation receives a proportion of the distributed dividends in the company. Given its status as a charitable institution the Foundation does not engage in corporate activity. The voting rights associated with its shares in Robert Bosch GmbH have been transferred to a trust, Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG.

More about the constitution

Decision-Making Bodies

The decision-making bodies of the Robert Bosch Stiftung are its Partners' Meeting, the Board of Trustees, and the Management Board. Its charitable activities and the deployment of its resources are determined by the Board of Trustees, which members are also partners of the Foundation. These partner-members act as trustees and must step down at the age of 74. As directed by Robert Bosch, the Board of Trustees is made up of members of his family, as well as entrepreneurs and personalities from the public domain.

Annual General Meeting and Board of Trustees

Foundation Today

Some 200 employees manage internal and external projects in Stuttgart and Berlin. Find out more about the charitable activities of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. It picks up on social issues at an early stage in five areas of support – and, with its projects, develops exemplary solutions for the future.

What we do