Bosch Alumni Network - Driving Change

Would you Have Guessed...?
Our Bosch Alumni Network is large and holds more
than a few secrets and curiosities. We have collected
seven of them for you.
Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary
of State for Population, Refugees
and Migration under the last US president
Obama, and Denis McDonough, likewise
Chief of Staff under Obama, are Bosch
alumni. Anne was a fellow in the “Robert
Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program”
from 1985 to 1986, and Denis was a fellow
of the same program from 1999 to 2000.
The Robert Bosch GmbH logo depicts
a double-T armature — also known as a
rotor — which is used in electric motors and
generators. It consists of two mirrored
iron cores in a T-shape, wrapped in a coil.
The three most common Google automatic
completions of the sentence
“Networks are...:” “important,” “key for migrants
to find jobs,” and “the new currency.”
Robert Bosch was the first industrialist
to introduce the 8-hour day
for his workers.
The employees of the Robert Bosch
Stiftung harvest the apples from
the foundation headquarters garden in
Stuttgart for a good cause.
30 network members registered on
boschalumni.net share the first name
“Robert” or international versions such as
“Roberto” or “Bob.”
The brewery of our alumnus Brian
Trauth offers four types of beer:
“Thronfolger” (heir to the throne), “Nachtschwärmer”
(night owl), “Poor but Hoppy”
and “Elektroweizen.”
Text: iac Berlin | Illustration: Francesca Cogni
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