MAHLE is responsible – not only to the inside to its own employees – but also to the outside to the world in which we live.

The company founders, Hermann and Ernst Mahle were aware of this and they wanted to meet this responsibility. Furthermore, they wanted to avoid disintegration and ensure continuity after they left. For these reasons, the brothers decided, in the spirit of Rudolf Steiner, to place the common good above their own benefit, sacrificing their private ownership of the company, and to contribute the ownership to a foundation for public benefit.

The outstanding achievements of the MAHLE Foundation include the establishment of an anthroposophic designed hospital. In 1975, the Filder Clinic in Filderstadt-Bonlanden near Stuttgart was opened. Its operation, expansion and modernization are still promoted through the MAHLE Foundation today.

The MAHLE Foundation also supports such causes as the Waldorf schooling, ecological agriculture – through seed research, and the research projects of the private Witten / Herdecke University Clinic.