Completely Rethinking the Security Architecture

Arndt G. Kirchhoff and J. Wolfgang Kirchhoff welcomed the German Chancellor, who was accompanied by Markus Söder (Prime Minister of Bavaria), Winfried Kretschmann (Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg), VDA President Hildegard Müller and Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer, to find out about KIRCHHOFF Automotive's innovations.

The focus was on a crash management system specially designed for electric vehicles and a world first instrument panel beam in hybrid design. Both whose joints are produced substance-to-substance, in a form-fit and force-fit manner and thus prevent the formation of corrosion between the two materials steel and aluminum. "These are two examples of how we are combining vehicle safety and lightweight automotive construction," explained J. Wolfgang Kirchhoff.

The Chancellor was impressed: "That's very interesting, I hadn't thought that through at all. The entire security architecture has to be completely rethought. And these are the strengths of the German automotive supplier industry - that you are thinking all this through," she said. Arndt G. Kirchhoff said that caring for vehicle safety is the main concern of KIRCHHOFF Automotive: "The number of accidents on the roads is decreasing every year. That is our main task: to continue to make cars safe in the future." After 2007, 2013 and 2017, this was the fourth visit of the German Chancellor to a
KIRCHHOFF Automotive booth at the IAA.

Here you can see a video of the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the KIRCHOFF Automotive booth. You can display English subtitles using the icons in the lower right area of the video.