Dieter Fuchs Stiftung: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 18:57 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt the entry from its own sources and settled the three queue items. Added the official registry source: the Stiftungsverzeichnis of the Amt fuer regionale Landesentwicklung Weser-Ems (Stand 23.09.2025) lists the foundation as number 09 (036), recognised on 23 September 2002, so `founded` is now the exact date and the directory carries the register id. Set Identity `ownership_status: no_corporate_parent` with `ownership_source: ^arl-sv`, and About states the evidence: a rechtsfaehige Stiftung des buergerlichen Rechts has no members or shareholders and answers to the state supervisory authority, as its own Impressum and the Weser-Ems directory record. Removed the research-narration sentence about how the 90 % is held and replaced it with the sourced chain from the register: DF World of Spices SE's shareholder lists of 8 June 2007, 5 July 2018, 30 September 2019 and 13 July 2023 name DF Verwaltung GmbH & Co. KG (HRA 110593 Osnabrueck), whose limited partner is DFS Beteiligungen GmbH (HRB 110912) - both of which now have pages here. Named the second holder, the family foundation DF Family Trust with the remaining 10 %, from food-service of 6 June 2016, kept the 2015/2016 disagreement between that report and Wikipedia as a stated disagreement, and added the governance (board Josef Diekmann; five-member Kuratorium chaired by Christian Wulff) and the founder's step-by-step transfer of shares. New References rows: dfs-organe, dfs-stifter, arl-sv, fg-unt, fs, nd-dfv, nd-dfs; re-fetched and re-dated dfs-web, dfs-imp and wiki-de to 2026-09-21. Added a search alias for the hyphenated spelling and tightened `summary` to give the 90 % figure. No relation rows: the foundation has nothing above it, and the group's own page carries the parent_org row pointing here. Where the walk up stops: company/dfs-beteiligungen has no owner row and no ownership_status of its own; its shareholder list (filed 15 August 2022 at HRB 110912) is not in the free North Data view, so I have put that page on the cleanup queue rather than guess which vehicle the Stiftung's 90 % sits in. . Current is v3.

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# Dieter Fuchs Stiftung <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Dieter Fuchs Stiftung
disambiguation: the charitable foundation in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald that holds most of the Fuchs Gruppe
summary: Charitable foundation in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald, set up by the spice maker Dieter Fuchs in 2002 and the 90 % indirect shareholder of the Fuchs Gruppe.
legal_name: Dieter Fuchs Stiftung
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^arl-sv
registered_address: Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10, 49201 Dissen am Teutoburger Wald, Germany
country: DE
website: https://dieter-fuchs-stiftung.de/
register_ids: DE-STIFTUNG:Weser-Ems 09 (036)
founded: 2002-09-23
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                  | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Dieter-Fuchs-Stiftung | search | de     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                                                                                                       | title                                                                                 | accessed   | publisher                                     | kind         | published  | record_id  | locator                   | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ---------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| dfs-web     | https://dieter-fuchs-stiftung.de/                                                                                         | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung: Wissenschaft. Bildung. Erziehung. Kunst & Kultur.              | 2026-09-21 | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung                         | other        |            |            |                           |              |             |          |
| dfs-imp     | https://dieter-fuchs-stiftung.de/meta/impressum/                                                                          | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung: Impressum                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung                         | other        |            | 09 (036)   |                           |              |             |          |
| dfs-organe  | https://dieter-fuchs-stiftung.de/stiftung/stiftungsorgane/                                                                | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung: Stiftungsorgane                                                | 2026-09-21 | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung                         | other        |            |            |                           |              |             |          |
| dfs-stifter | https://dieter-fuchs-stiftung.de/stiftung/der-stifter/                                                                    | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung: Der Stifter                                                    | 2026-09-21 | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung                         | other        |            |            |                           |              |             |          |
| arl-sv      | https://www.arl-we.niedersachsen.de/download/221400/Stiftungsverzeichnis_Stand_23.9.2025.pdf                              | Amt für regionale Landesentwicklung Weser-Ems: Stiftungsverzeichnis, Stand 23.09.2025 | 2026-09-21 | Amt für regionale Landesentwicklung Weser-Ems | registry     | 2025-09-23 | 09 (036)   | Dieter Fuchs Stiftung     |              |             |          |
| fg-unt      | https://fuchsgruppe.com/ueber-uns/unternehmen/                                                                            | Fuchs Gruppe: Unternehmen                                                             | 2026-09-21 | DF World of Spices SE                         | manufacturer |            |            | Holdinggesellschaft; 2023 |              |             |          |
| fs          | https://www.food-service.de/industrie/industrie/Fuchs-gewaehrt-Paulig-Gruppe-mehr-Rechte-35284                            | food-service: Fuchs gewährt Paulig Gruppe mehr Rechte                                 | 2026-09-21 | food-service                                  | publication  | 2016-06-06 |            |                           |              |             |          |
| nd-dfv      | https://www.northdata.de/DF%20Verwaltung%20GmbH%20&%20Co%C2%B7%20KG,%20Dissen/Amtsgericht%20Osnabr%C3%BCck%20HRA%20110593 | North Data: DF Verwaltung GmbH & Co. KG, Amtsgericht Osnabrück HRA 110593             | 2026-09-21 | North Data                                    | registry     |            | HRA 110593 | Publications and mentions |              |             |          |
| nd-dfs      | https://www.northdata.de/DFS%20Beteiligungen%20GmbH,%20Dissen/Amtsgericht%20Osnabr%C3%BCck%20HRB%20110912                 | North Data: DFS Beteiligungen GmbH, Amtsgericht Osnabrück HRB 110912                  | 2026-09-21 | North Data                                    | registry     |            | HRB 110912 | Publications and mentions |              |             |          |
| wiki-de     | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_Gruppe                                                                                | Wikipedia (de): Fuchs Gruppe                                                          | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                                     | publication  |            |            |                           | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
The Dieter Fuchs Stiftung is a charitable foundation with legal capacity under German civil law, seated in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald at Dieter-Fuchs-Straße 10 and recognised on 23 September 2002, and it stands in the foundation directory of the Amt für regionale Landesentwicklung Weser-Ems in Oldenburg as number 09 (036), the authority that supervises it.[^arl-sv][^dfs-imp] The spice maker Dieter Fuchs (1928–2019) set it up to support science, education, upbringing, integration, art and culture in the Osnabrück region and above all in his home town, and to keep his company's seat in Dissen for the long run.[^arl-sv][^dfs-web][^dfs-stifter] The Fuchs Gruppe, the spice and herb group registered as DF World of Spices SE, names it as its largest indirect shareholder, with 90 %.[^fg-unt]

A foundation of this legal form has no members and no shareholders and is answerable to the state supervisory authority rather than to an owner: the Stiftung holds itself, and the Weser-Ems directory of foundations with legal capacity under civil law, not a commercial register, is where it is recorded.[^dfs-imp][^arl-sv] Josef Diekmann is its board, and a five-member board of trustees advises and supervises him, chaired by the former German Federal President Christian Wulff with the auditor Claus Niemann as his deputy, alongside Philip Fuchs of Fuchs Gewürze, the political scientist Dorothee Kellermann von Schele and the entrepreneur Hans-Günter Trockels; the trustees meet two or three times a year, decide the grants and are charged with keeping the company's stability, culture and seat in the founder's home town.[^dfs-imp][^dfs-organe] Recent grants have gone to seven reading sponsorships in Dissen schools and to a teaching high-ropes course at Barkhausen.[^dfs-web]

Between the foundation and the group stand the family's holding vehicles in Dissen. The shareholder lists DF World of Spices SE filed on 8 June 2007, 5 July 2018, 30 September 2019 and 13 July 2023 name DF Verwaltung GmbH & Co. KG, HRA 110593 Osnabrück, as the shareholder of the holding company, and the limited partner of that partnership is DFS Beteiligungen GmbH, HRB 110912 Osnabrück, entered in August 2006 for the purpose of holding exactly that interest.[^nd-dfv][^nd-dfs] Dieter Fuchs brought his shares into the foundation step by step, and in the succession arrangement reported on 6 June 2016 he transferred the majority of his shares in the holding company to the Stiftung and further shares to the family foundation DF Family Trust, which holds the remaining 10 %; Wikipedia dates the transfer of the majority to 2015, when Nils Meyer-Pries took over the leadership.[^dfs-stifter][^fs][^wiki-de] After his death in March 2019 the group passed wholly into the hands of the two foundations, and when the Fuchs shareholders bought back the 25.01 % minority the Finnish Paulig group had held since 2000, with effect from 1 January 2023, the group stated that the Stiftung remained its largest shareholder with 90 %.[^wiki-de][^fg-unt]
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