Johannes Kärcher – speaker MKRF2025

Johannes Kärcher is a second-generation representative of the internationally successful family business Kärcher. Since 1980, he has held various leadership positions within the company – from Managing Director of Kärcher Brazil and Managing Partner of Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG to Chairman of the Administrative Board, and later Chairman and Member of the Supervisory Board. Since 2022, he has also served as the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Brazil in Baden-Württemberg.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Munich, where he successfully completed his legal studies and passed the Second State Examination in Law.

In addition to his business endeavors, he has long been involved in cultural, academic, and family business initiatives as a member and chairman of various supervisory and advisory boards.

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart since 2000
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen since 2005
• Spokesman of the Board of Trustees of the Baden-Württemberg Brazil Centre at the University of
• Tübingen since 2006
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the support association Evangelisches Stift Tübingen since 2014
• Member of the Supervisory Board of C-Quadrat Ampega Asset Management Armenia since 2014
• Spokesman for Baden-Württemberg of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Gesellschaft e.V. 2005-2019
• Member of the Brazilian choir Encanto 2006-2016

He has received several honors in recognition of his contributions:

• Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens
• der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) 2010
• Honorary Senator of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2010
• Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Winnenden 2011
• St. Nerses Schnorhali – Medal of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Armenia 2012