Find out more about the people responsible for Research and Development on the Board of Management at Daimler AG and its precursor companies.
The first "Technical director" of the Daimler Motor Company, from 1895, was Wilhelm Maybach. He was succeeded in 1907 by Paul Daimler. Among the Board Members responsible for Development are also two men who later became Chairman of the Board: Prof Werner Breitschwerdt and Dr Dieter Zetsche. Since 2003 Board of Management responsibility for Group Research, and since 2004 also for Mercedes-Benz Cars Development, has lain with Dr Thomas Weber.