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Special FEATURE

In Memoriam

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Sieglinde Vollmer
November 30, 1924 – January 29, 2025
family, employing around 800 “descendants”
today. In 1962, one year after the death of her
father, Sieglinde Vollmer began undertaking
duties in the company. Thanks to her excellent
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foreign language skills, she found her place at
VOLLMER in the export department. As early
as 1964, she assumed the role of Managing
Director alongside her brother Udo Vollmer,
and has played a crucial role in leading this
medium-sized mechanical engineering compa-
ny to success since 1987. She came to know
and love the VOLLMER Group of companies,
which was the life’s work of her father. Her
multilingualism opened doors, her warmth
was often the start of long-standing business
relationships, and her expertise formed a solid
foundation for those relationships. As a strong
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woman in the engineering industry, Sieglinde
Sieglinde Vollmer, an Entrepreneur with
Vollmer developed the traditional company into
a technological leader for grinding and eroding machines.
Sense and Compassion, Passes Away at
the Age of 100
The company became her family. And the feeling
was mutual among the employees of VOLLMER.
The VOLLMER Group mourns the loss of Sieglinde
With her humor, warmth, open-mindedness, curiosity
Vollmer. The warm-hearted entrepreneur, Supervisory
and expertise, Sieglinde Vollmer looked after her
Board Member of the VOLLMER Group, and trustee
company and its employees. In 2003, she handed over
of the Sieglinde Vollmer Foundation, passed away on
January 29th, 2025 at the age of 100. As the daughter
subsequent managing directors, but remained closely
of company founder Heinrich Vollmer, she steered the
associated with the company as a member of the
fortunes of the company for decades and played a key the operational management of the company to the
Supervisory Board.
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role in shaping it. In a male dominated industry, she had
a powerful impact and became an inspiring personality
“It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to
Sieglinde Vollmer, whose courage and vision made
in the mechanical engineering industry. With her death,
VOLLMER a technology leader,” writes Martin Kapp,
VOLLMER has lost a true trailblazer who developed the
traditional company into a technology leader for grinding
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the VOLLMER
Group. “Our beloved Fräulein was an entrepreneur
and erosion machines. Her legacy will live on far beyond
through and through, a veritable virtuoso, whose excel-
the boundaries of the company.
lence was unmatched. We will continue her life’s work.”
An entrepreneur with sense and compassion – a heart
for the company
to the many employees who will miss her and mourn her
She bore the title “Fräulein” (“Miss” in English) proudly
loss. Clearly she was an extraordinary woman who has
her entire life, and instead of becoming a wife and EDM Today offers condolences to the Vollmer family and
contributed much to our industry.
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mother, things turned out differently than originally
planned. The company was to become her second
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