For jobs and prosperity
in Saxony after the political collapse of the GDR, which at the time was a very important signal, the starting gun for economic development in the East.
This commitment first secured jobs at the Trabant factory site in Zwickau, the engine building facility in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz again) and in the cylinder head production site in the old Wartburg plant in Eisenach (until it was relocated to Chemnitz in 1996). New jobs came with the expansion of the plants and ultra-modern production facilities as well as in the supply industry and skilled trades and brought new prosperity to Saxony. For that reason Carl H. Hahn remains a prominent figure who represents courage, resolve and economic rebirth – and not only in this region. But what ties Carl Hahn to Saxony? “I was born in Chemnitz in 1926. It would be terrible if you didn’t remember your roots – regardless of where in the world you are,” says Hahn.
He first came into contact with car manufacturing as a child. Before World War II