The entrepreneurial success was truly not laid in the cradle of our founder Josef Wund. Until his tragic accidental death in a plane crash in December 2017, the native Friedrichshafener worked tirelessly for over six decades with diligence, idea richness and economic skill in the truest sense of the word, stone by stone.

Everything that Josef Wund created had to be hard-earned. His father, a carriage driver, had recognized his son Josef's talents, but could not provide him with any support other than understanding for his ambitious professional plans. So, Josef Wund first completed a bricklayer apprenticeship and worked as a painter before he could study architecture and civil engineering. After working as an employed architect and in an office partnership, our founder realized that he would find the best development in self-employment. At the age of 27, he realized the exhibition hall 1 in Friedrichshafen, at that time the largest self-supporting gas concrete hanging roof hall in the world. In the following years, Josef Wund set standards with other major industrial buildings. Thus, the multitalent planned, built and financed the German Pavilion for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover.

Since the mid-1990s, our founder has dedicated himself with remarkable success to the construction and operation of leisure pools. In order to secure his impressive life's work in the long term, to express his gratitude to the people who trusted him and to live up to the social responsibility he always exemplified, Josef Wund founded the Josef Wund Foundation gGmbH in agreement with his family.

His personal life experiences as well as his moral and work ethic principles form the spiritual foundation of our foundation and are the guiding principle for our daily foundation work.