Alexander Eberharter (44) has taken over the management of the West region of the international transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss on August 1, succeeding Hannes Mayr (65), who is retiring after 41 years with the company. Mayr, who was born in Tyrol, can look back on an impressive career with the logistics company. After joining the company in 1983, he held various management positions in Tyrol, before being appointed Regional Manager West and then Director in 2028. At Gebrüder Weiss, the West region comprises the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, as well as Switzerland. Salzburg and Carinthia were added to this region at the beginning of 2024.
“Hannes Mayr and his team have made a significant contribution to the success of Gebrüder Weiss in our home region. Thanks to his commitment and professionalism, we continue to be the number one logistics partner for the majority of industrial and commercial companies,” says Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss, in recognition of Hannes Mayr’s work. It was not only the international consignors in the West region that benefited from his forwarding and logistics expertise. As chairman of the examination board for forwarding agents, he passed on his knowledge to generations of apprentices for decades. For many years, Mayr also championed the interests of the industry in the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce as Chairman of the Freight Forwarding and Logistics Section.
His successor, Alexander Eberharter, has been with Gebrüder Weiss for 22 years. After holding various management positions at the Gebrüder Weiss site in Hall in Tyrol, he took over as branch manager in Nuremberg in 2017 and was subsequently put in charge of the logistics company’s strategic business development in Germany. He is now responsible for 1,100 employees at 25 logistics locations, six of which will be expanded in the coming years: Pratteln near Basel, Wolfurt in Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Hall and Langkampfen in Tyrol, and Maria Saal in Carinthia.
“The local economies in the western region are very different, but they do have one thing in common: industrial and commercial companies need a logistics provider nearby that gives them access to a global transportation network with high quality standards. We meet this need by tailoring the services of each branch specifically to the needs of regional consignors and integrating them into our global network,” Eberharter explains.