Obituary: Werner Doppstadt

Steve Ducker Desk Editor, Off Highway Research

26 April 2021

Germany’s Doppstadt Group is mourning the passing of the company’s founder and long-time CEO Werner Doppstadt, who died on 20 April at the age of 77.

In nearly five decades as the company’s CEO, Werner Doppstadt led the family enterprise, which was established in 1965, to international success.

Born in Homberg, Germany, he first transformed his parents‘ farm into an agricultural contracting business together with his wife Hedwig and his brother Josef.

In 1970 he developed…

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