Wurth is a family business that was founded by Adolf Wurth in 1945. Prof. Reinhold Wurth, today's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Wurth Group's Family Trusts, took over the business at the age of 19 after his father had passed away and developed it further in the following years. Starting from the early years of the company in post-war Germany, he turned the former two-man business into a worldwide operating trading group.