Press Release

“I’m very pleased that with Dr. Alexander Dony and Rudolf Klötscher we have found two colleagues within BSH who have extensive experience and qualifications, both in their fields and internationally, to support us evolve BSH further during these demanding times,” said Dr. Christian Fischer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH. “On behalf of the entire Supervisory Board, I also want to thank Matthias Ginthum for his years of dedicated work on the Board of Management and his great achievements in supporting BSH’s success. We wish him all the best for his retirement and everything in the future.”

Dr. Matthias Metz, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the BSH Board of Management, added, “Dr. Alexander Dony and Rudolf Klötscher have a thorough knowledge of BSH and of what both our customers and our consumers want. We’re very glad we will be working closely with them in the Board of Management, and we’re convinced that this strong setup will lead to further growth. We will be providing information about succession planning at a later date.”

Two experienced BSH managers, Dony and Klötscher, join the Board of Management. After studying business administration and earning his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen, Dony joined Procter & Gamble (P&G) in Switzerland in 1998. In 2000, he went to Singapore, where he managed a variety of brands from the P&G portfolio, ultimately as Director of the Asia region. Then in 2010, he began a succession of executive positions in brand and product management in China and the USA before joining BSH in Nanjing, China, in 2019 to head business in the Greater China region.

After studying business administration at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Klötscher began his career at home appliance company Whirlpool before joining BSH in Traunreut, Germany, in 1996. Following various executive positions in production, sales, and product management, he took charge of building up the Adriatic East region in Ljubljana in 2008. After a successful restructuring of the global Consumer Products Division, at the beginning of 2020 Klötscher moved to Istanbul, where he has been responsible for building up and managing the new Emerging Markets region.

Klötscher and Dony are succeeding Matthias Ginthum, who is retiring at the end of March 2023. “Along with my colleagues on the Board of Management, I want to thank Matthias Ginthum for his outstanding dedication over the past 32 years, and for his valuable accomplishments on behalf of BSH, including the successful target group-specific focusing of our brands and the strong regional setup of BSH. We wish him all the best for the future,” said Dr. Metz.

Said Matthias Ginthum: “In recent years we’ve been able to make BSH a consumer-centered company that has been improving people’s lives all over the world with strong brands and an intelligent combination of hardware, software and services. I’m leaving the company with the positive sense that BSH is excellently positioned for the future.”