New Managers at Borgward: Team of Experts Grows in Germany

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STUTTGART, Germany, Aug. 16 2016 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

    - Dr. Tilo Schweers, Chief Developer for Alternative Drive Systems

    - Florian Herbold, Chief Engineer for Transmission Development and

Integration

    Borgward Group AG is continuing to strengthen its team of experts at its

headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Borgward has appointed Dr. Tilo Schweers,

53, its Chief Developer for Alternative Drive Systems and Powertrain

Electrification. Schweers is an expert automotive engineer with a wealth of

experience in this field. His main tasks will include bringing the hybrid and

electric models that are planned for the European market to the

series-production stage. After studying mechanical engineering (focus:

automotive technology) at RWTH Aachen, Schweers worked as a senior engineer at

the university's Institute of Automotive Engineering, where he also earned his

doctorate degree. After Schweers joined Daimler in 1996, he chiefly worked on

the development of alternative drive systems.

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    He was born and grew up in the "Borgward city" of Bremen, where he came

into contact with the company's spirit at an early age. "I've come full

circle," he says. "When I was a child and teenager in Bremen, I was bitten by

the Borgward bug early on, because you still saw many Borgward vehicles in the

streets back then! What's more, I walked past the Borgward Villa every morning

on my way to school."

    Florian Herbold, 38, Chief Engineer for Transmission Development and

Integration, is a real car guy who learned his profession from the ground up.

After completing his training as a car mechanic, Herbold studied mechanical

engineering at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. A native of

Kassel, he got his first professional experience as a research engineer at a

renowned drive system specialist in Stuttgart. Herbold then switched to a

company of the Daimler Group, where he worked in a variety of senior positons

on the development and application of hybrid automatic transmissions.

    He sums up his reasons for joining Borgward Group AG as follows: "I was

literally electrified when I read that Borgward was planning to play a

technologically leading role like it did in the 1950s and enter the European

market with plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. With my experience and

ideas, I can help to make the brand's rebirth a success!"

     Further information

     BORGWARD Group AG

     Kriegsbergstrasse 11

     70174 Stuttgart

     Marco Dalan

     Head of Global Communications

     Telephone:  +49-711-365-10-1041

     E-mail: marco.dalan@borgward.com

     http://www.borgward.com

SOURCE: BORGWARD Group AG