Dr. Jochen Peter (50) will join the management board of Bosch Rexroth AG in Lohr am Main on January 1, 2026 and, after an induction phase, will become Chief Executive Officer on March 1, 2026. He succeeds Dr. Steffen Haack (59), who will step back from the CEO position, but will remain a member of the management board. Haack will retain responsibility for engineering and will concentrate on identifying new strategic growth areas for Bosch Rexroth in the future.
"Steffen Haack deserves great recognition for his important contribution to the development of Bosch Rexroth in recent years. He actively initiated and accompanied the upcoming generational change as a member of the management board. In doing so, he has created the necessary stability in a challenging market environment and driven the further development of Bosch Rexroth," says Dr. Tanja Rückert, member of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH and chairwoman of the supervisory board of Bosch Rexroth AG.
Peter studied mechanical and process engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and industrial engineering at the University of Hagen. He started his professional career in 2000 as a development engineer at BMW while completing his doctorate degree at the Fraunhofer Institute and then worked for the Boston Consulting Group, including in the USA. In 2011, he moved to the Zeiss Group and held various management positions before becoming a member of the executive board of Carl Zeiss AG in 2017. There he was responsible for the Industrial Quality and Research division until the end of September 2025.
"In his previous position, Jochen Peter has shown that he can tap into new market potential even in difficult environments, develop software business and successfully drive transformation in a company," says Rückert.
