Dr. Albert Hieronimus has been the Chairman of the Executive Board at Bosch Rexroth AG since February 2008. The PhD mathematician has nearly 30 years of industry experience at Mannesmann and Bosch Group companies. Throughout this time, he has assumed various leadership positions; his scope of knowledge and experience ranges from sales, finances and planning to management accounting, human resources, development and information processing.

After his time as a science assistant at the University of Cologne, Hieronimus transferred in 1979 to the former Mannesmann AG. Between his work there and at Mannesmann Demag AG, he acted for 14 years in various positions with growing responsibility, lastly as the Managing Director of the subsidiary company Mannesmann Demag Baumaschinen GmbH.

In July 1993, Hieronimus became the Commercial Director of Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH and in July 1997, the member of the Executive Board responsible for commerce at Mannesmann Rexroth AG. After the merger of the company with the Bosch business unit Automation Technology to form Bosch Rexroth AG in 2001, he was responsible, as a member of the Executive Board, for personnel, information processing and the co-ordination of the integration process.

In 2003, Hieronimus transferred as the Chairman of the Executive Board to the Indian Bosch subsidiary Motor Industries Co. Ltd. (MICO), where he was additionally responsible for the sales, application and development departments. In 2008, the Rheinland-Palatine native returned to Germany, called to the Bosch Rexroth forefront.