then headmaster of the Deutschorden-Gymnasium school in Bad Mergentheim, set up the Wittenstein Foundation. The Foundation awards an annual scholarship in a natural science to one of the school's students. "Creative Young Minds", a competition aimed at young inventors in the local region, was likewise initiated by Manfred Wittenstein. In 2001, the firm was given a new corporate structure when the original Wittenstein GmbH & Co. KG was transformed into a family owned, non-listed public limited company. Further subsidiaries came into being in 2003 (Wittenstein aerospace & simulation) and 2007 (Wittenstein electronics). In 2008, the Group acquired a majority share in Munich based attocube systems, which became a wholly owned subsidiary three years later in 2011. Early in 2013, the company embarked on a search for a successor to Manfred Wittenstein as president; on 1 October 2014 that year, Professor Dieter Spath, an occupational scientist and Head of the Institute for Technology Management and Human Factors at the University of Stuttgart, took over as president on 1 October 2013; on 1 April 2014, Manfred Wittenstein was appointed Chairman of the Wittenstein Supervisory Board. In 2017 Wittenstein acquired the entire share capital of baramundi software AG. Various reorganization and restructuring measures were implemented to strengthen Wittenstein's market orientation. Wittenstein Electronics GmbH was integrated into Wittenstein Cyber Motor GmbH. Wittenstein Motion Control GmbH, the business field of Industrial Systems, was divided between Wittenstein Cyber Motor GmbH and Wittenstein Alpha GmbH. The business field of oil and gas remained. Wittenstein Bastian GmbH, special-purpose gearheads and gearing was integrated into Wittenstein Alpha GmbH. The “future urban production” facility in Fellbach continued to be established as a production and competence center for gearing components and special-purpose gearheads. Bernd Schimpf stepped down from the management board on March 31, 2019. Bertram Hoffmann became chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Wittenstein Group on April 1, 2019. Dirk Haft, Erik Roßmeißl and Anna-Katharina Wittenstein completed the management board. In March 2020, Wittenstein sold its medical division to the medical technology company Orthofix. On 1 April 2020, Wittenstein galaxie GmbH, a new subsidiary, was founded, in order to be able to position and expand the radically innovative Galaxie drive technology on the market in an even more targeted manner. The two subsidiaries, Wittenstein Motion Control GmbH and Wittenstein Aerospace and Simulation GmbH are legally merged. The integration of Wittenstein Aerospace and Simulation GmbH allowed Wittenstein