Marco and Christa Fuchs have transferred all of their direct and indirect shares in OHB SE to the newly established Fuchs Family Foundation. The purpose of establishing the foundation and transferring the shares is to create a stable structure that will ensure the long-term stability of the company’s ownership structure.
The foundation’s objective with regard to OHB—the long-term preservation of Marco and Christa Fuchs’s family business assets—is set forth in the foundation’s bylaws: The central criterion for all decisions made by the foundation shall be the safeguarding, preservation, and continuation of the OHB Group.
The number of family shares bundled under a voting rights agreement has not changed as a result of this step: The Fuchs share pool continues to comprise 69.72% of the shares in OHB SE, and this also includes 1,000,000 shares in Martello Value GmbH & Co. KG, the company recently founded by Romana Fuchs Mayrhofer. The transfer of the shares to the foundation has also not changed anything with regard to the persons involved—insofar as their (indirect) shareholder status in OHB SE is concerned: As chairman of the family foundation, Marco Fuchs continues to control the OHB Group.