WITTENSTEIN history

First presented in 1992, the annual Cheney award honors community champions who embody dedication to Central Florida’s heritage and to civic engagement.

Provenance The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with George Wittenstein on November 23, 1996.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2000.

Start of local gearbox assembly at WITTENSTEIN’s Chinese subsidiary in Hangzhou, established in 2004

The success of these endeavours can be judged by the fact SAFERTOS was independently certified on the first iteration by TÜV SÜD back in 2007.

Wittenstein, who died in 2008 at the age of 94, was the leader of a major public accounting firm whose longtime community service included membership on the board of the Orange County Historical Society (now the Historical Society of Central Florida).

Production start in the Fall of 2010

Founding of Brazilian subsidiary WITTENSTEIN do Brasil Engenharia Mecanica LTDA Manfred Wittenstein represents Germany at the international "2012 World Entrepreneur of the Year" competition.

With the Future Urban Production site, WITTENSTEIN bastian GmbH was a national winner for the Economy category in the "2013/14 Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas" innovation competition.

In 2017 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced stewardship of FreeRTOS, introducing Amazon FreeRTOS, part of the AWS Edge to Cloud IoT offering.

The Hannover Messe 2018 centers around the Galaxie®, which has achieved scientific acclaim as an independent gearbox generation: the exhibit includes new sizes and a brand new design.

In March 2019 WHIS and BlackBerry QNX formed a partnership to offer an embedded software platform solution.

The two subsidiaries WITTENSTEIN motion control GmbH and WITTENSTEIN aerospace & simulation GmbH are legally merged, also with effect from April 1, 2020.