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Margrit Harting, a strong willed and passionate entrepreneur with charm
and esprit, and creative head of the globally active technology group, Harting,
celebrated her 70th birthday on February 3, 2015.
Following in the footsteps of her father, who ran a private commercial
school in Herford and Rahden, she pursued an educational career, training as a
qualified teacher of business studies. This education would later provide her
with an essential foundation for her activities in the company.
Margrit Harting married Dietmar Harting in 1971. Harting, which was
founded in 1945, was managed by Marie Harting together with her son Dietmar,
after the death of her husband. When Marie Harting fell seriously ill in 1987, Dietmar
Harting brought his wife, Margrit on board as a managing director of the
company, which at the time had a workforce of just under 1,200 employees and
generated sales of almost 150 million DM. Since 1996, Margrit Harting has been
active as general partner with son Philip Harting and daughter Maresa
Harting-Hertz also active as personally liable partners since end-2013.
After joining the company, Margrit Harting established her mark in all
areas of the company from the architecture (she was the driving force behind
the significant Botta building in Minden), on to trade fair presentations,
publicity, quality assurance, all the way to the company’s own, state-of-the-art
‘New Training Center HARTING’ (NAZHA) that is setting top standards in the
qualification of junior professionals.
The Harting couple has jointly managed the innovative and dynamically
growing technology group for a good quarter of a century. Margrit Harting has passionately
implemented and financially enabled the modernisation of the Neues Theater
together with her husband at Espelkamp, the company’s headquarters, and has
also led initiatives at the Rahden and Minden locations, as well as the whole
of the East-Westphalia-Lippe region (OWL).
As Chairwoman of many years’ standing of the Philharmonische
Gesellschaft Ostwestfalen-Lippe, the Interessengemeinschaft Standortförderung
Kreis Minden-Lübbecke (business promotion association for the Minden-Lippe
district) and the Volksbildungswerkes Espelkamp (Adult Education Agency of
Espelkamp where she is honorary Chairwoman), Margrit Harting gives important
and sustained impulses for the development of the region.