We have accompanied a changing world since March 26, 1949.
On a Saturday, at 10 o’clock in the morning, representatives of the state government of Bavaria, along with the state governments of Hesse and Württemberg and guests from the scientific and business communities, gathered in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs at the invitation of State Secretary Hugo Geiger. A solemn ceremony on this day marked the birth of the Fraunhofer Society.
Its first 103 members laid the cornerstone for a tenet that characterizes us to this day: proceeding from ideas, we develop the innovations of the future.