WHO WE ARE ABOUT US About us HENSOLDT - Innovations for a safer world HENSOLDT helps to avert threats to armed forces and society and to protect our customers from them. We are a German champion in the defence industry with a leading market position in Europe and a global reach. Our companies' success is based on the work of our highly skilled employees that are fascinated by high-end technology and driven by the desire to meet evolving customer needs. In line with the tradition of our predecessors, we translate technological innovations into smart electronic solutions, which support defence and security organisations in their mission to make the world a safer place. Our employees are our most valuable asset and, therefore, our top priority. Our Company HENSOLDT is a pioneer of technology and innovation for defence and security electronics. Based in Taufkirchen near Munich, our company is a German Champion with strategic leadership positions in the field of sensor solutions for defence and security applications. As a technology leader, HENSOLDT also continuously expands its Cyber portfolio and develops new products to combat a wide range of threats based on innovative approaches to data management, robotics and cybersecurity. With approximately 5,600 employees, we generated revenues of 1.2 billion euros in 2020. Our Mission Thomas Müller CEO HENSOLDT Our Values At the heart of our company culture are the values we share, giving the success of our company a common, solid basis. These values – laid out already in our predecessor companies and developed further - are fundamental to all our doing and have a profound impact on all other areas of our business, like a house that cannot rest safely without reliable foundations. In this sense, the basis of everything is the value of Collaboration going together with team spirit and respect, openness, transparency and trust, i.e. overcoming organisational lines and taking on challenges as one team. Based on this foundation HENSOLDT rests on three pillars: Excellence, Ownership and Innovation. Bearing the roof of the entire building is Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship One word summarizes what we all are committed to: To act on behalf of our company, take decisions, continuously aspire for excellence and accept being held responsible – in the best interest of our customers! Ownership Ownership means we keep our world safe, we take responsibility for our decisions and actions and we are reliable towards our colleagues and our customers. Excellence Excellence is literally the essence of our success, but only if it is paired with efficiency, agility and simplicity. Excellence is no value in itself but only insofar as it serves customer value. Innovation Innovation is a permanent process, not so much a status, requiring curiosity, creativity and passion as well as courage to think outside of the box and even to risk failure. Areas of activity HENSOLDT is a leading supplier for platform independent offerings deployed across the domains air, sea, land and security for armed and security forces worldwide. As a German champion and the largest European pure-play defence and security electronics house, we contribute significantly to the protection of soldiers and the operational capability of the German Bundeswehr and the wider NATO. HENSOLDT’s portfolio includes various sensor technologies, which, when combined, allow detection capabilities to be improved substantially. Our main areas of activity include the protection of borders and critical infrastructures, air defence, mission management and platform self-protection, force protection, signal intelligence and data links, as well as night vision devices, laser rangefinders and optronic targeting equipment. In addition, our portfolio also comprises of mission avionics such as avionics computers, mission planning systems and autopilots. With our wide product range, we cover all types of applications in air, sea, land and security missions and enable our customers to maintain superiority when it comes to monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum. Our solutions are deployed on various platforms, including helicopters, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, ships and submarines, armoured vehicles as well as satellites. HENSOLDT - Detect and Protect We embed our videos via YouTube. To watch the video, you have to accept cookies. HENSOLDT's Executive Committee - Management Board Thomas Müller CEO of HENSOLDT Axel Salzmann Chief Financial Officer Peter Fieser Chief HR Officer Celia Pelaz Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Spectrum Dominance and Airborne Solutions HENSOLDT's Executive Committee - Divison Heads & Central Functions Erwin Paulus Head of Radar and Naval Solutions Andreas Hülle Head of Optronics and Land Solutions Peter Schlote Chief Operating Officer Solms U. Wittig General Counsel Jérôme Giraud HENSOLDT France Stefan Hess Head of Governmental Business Development and Political Affairs Russell Gould Head of International Business Development Our Business We, the HENSOLDT Group, offer our customers mission critical sensor systems for protection, for surveillance and for situational awareness. As innovation is intrinsic to our DNA we continously develop innovative, integrated and customer-specific solutions in the segments Radar, IFF & COMMS, Spectrum Dominance and Airborne Solutions, Optronics and Customer Services. We consistently drive innovations forward and invest significantly in research and development. This is complemented by our in-house innovation-hub and start-up incubator HENSOLDT Ventures. COMPANY ORGANISATION Divisions HENSOLDT’s business is divided into two segments: Sensors and Optronics. Sensors comprises three divisions: Radar and Naval Solutions, Spectrum Dominance and Airborne Solutions and Service and Space Solutions. Optronics comprises our Optronics and Land Solutions division. Together they are driving global growth and achieving remarkable successes in their individual sectors. In recent years HENSOLDT has invested significantly in research and development and continously promotes in-house innovations with its start-up incubator HENSOLDT Ventures. The focus here is primarily on AI-based technologies such as machine learning and big data analysis. On the basis, we are also driving forward in the area of cyber innovation. Radar and Naval Solutions Optronics and Land Solutions Spectrum Dominance and Airborne Solutions Service and Space Solutions HENSOLDT at a glance We strive to become Europe’s leading, platform-independent provider of defence and security sensor solutions with global reach. Key company figures 2020 Employees worldwide 0 + Years of heritage 0 + Revenues in €m 0 + Order backlog in €m 0 + Order intake in €m 0 + Adjusted EBITDA in €m 0 + Global Footprint HENSOLDT has German roots, a large presence in Europe, and a global footprint. We have sales offices in 19 key accessible defence markets globally. Our major production facilities in Germany are in Ulm, Oberkochen, and Pforzheim. We have a production site in Massy, France and Enfield, United Kingdom, as well as another two in Irene and Pretoria, South Africa. Our Heritage HENSOLDT was originally built from various former Airbus activities in the areas of defence and security electronics. Those activities are all linked to sensor technologies, mutually augmenting their respective strengths and reaping synergies from operation under one roof, as a provider of platform independent sensor systems. HENSOLDT Story We embed our videos via YouTube. To watch the video, you have to accept cookies. Our company’s know-how is based on the pioneering spirit of our renowned predecessor companies such as AEG, Aerospatiale-Matra, Carl Zeiss, Cassidian, Daimler, Dornier, EADS, Siemens, and Telefunken, as well as Airbus, driving technology to better detect threats to our societies and to help protect our fellow citizens. In addition, HENSOLDT acquired the German company Euroavionics and British radar specialist Kelvin Hughes as well as the start-up PentaTec. Moreover, HENSOLDT acquired the French-based company Nexeya and IE Asia-Pacific. With Tellumat, HENSOLDT's most recent acquisition, we achieve a combination of both strategic goals, focusing on radar technology capabilities specifically in South Africa. COMPANY HERITAGE Our brand journey We unite known names in defence and security electronics under one roof. HENSOLDT is built from various former Airbus activities. In addition, HENSOLDT acquired the German company Euroavionics and British radar specialist Kelvin Hughes as well as the start-up PentaTec. Moreover, HENSOLDT acquired the French-based company Nexeya and IE Asia-Pacific. Recently, HENSOLDT signed the acquisition of Tellumat in South Africa (expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020). The HENSOLDT brand, which has been in use for many years for our telescopic sights and targeting optics portfolio, derives from Moritz Carl HENSOLDT (1821-1903), a German pioneer of optics and precision mechanics, who developed benchmark technology solutions and products in his domain. The spirit of technological progress, of continuous quest for premium solutions reined in by a solid, practical sense of efficiency, made the name “HENSOLDT” a perfect choice to represent our company. COMPANY NAME Where Tradition and Innovation come together Our companies name derives from Moritz Carl HENSOLDT (1821-1903), a German pioneer of optics and precision mechanics, who developed benchmark technology solutions and products in his domain. Among other activities, he developed binoculars and telescopic sights revolutionizing surveillance and reconnaissance as well as target acquisition in his time. It is his relentless pursuit of innovation, his incomparable way of translating scientific findings into useful products that unites perfectly with the achievements of other heroes of technology who together form the heritage of our company. A History of Firsts In our company, we bring together the innovative spirit of our predeccessor companies such as AEG, Aerospatiale-Matra, Carl Zeiss, Cassidian, Daimler, Dornier, EADS, Siemens, and Telefunken, as well as Airbus. In our company history of more than 150 years, many inventions took place. We show just an extract of the most prominent ones. The inventions of the past are the basis of our future. Contact Request Send us a message with your question or suggestion. CONTACT FORM REGIONAL SALES Europe North America Latin America Asia-Pacific Middle East Africa CAREER Germany South Africa UK France INFORMATION T&Cs of Sale Supplier Information LEGAL Legal Notice Data Protection Notice