The Schöck-Familien-Stiftung
"Future through education" is our motto.
The Schöck-Familien-Stiftung gemeinnützige GmbH was founded in 2012 on the initiative of Sabine Schöck and has since supported initiatives in the field of sustainable development cooperation, currently mainly in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Uganda.
With a view to helping socially disadvantaged people, the foundation also supports development projects in the area surrounding the company’s headquarters in Baden-Baden.
It primarily aims to support other charitable organisations in successfully setting up and implementing their projects.
It is important to the family to give disadvantaged people the chance to lead a self-determined life through personalised support, good education and training.
Creating this basis enables open exchange between peoples and cultures and a sustainable approach to nature and the environment in the long term.
The Schöck-Familien-Stiftung is already the Schöck family’s second charitable organisation. The first, the Eberhard-Schöck-Stiftung (ESST), was set up by the founder of Schöck AG, Eberhard Schöck, back in 1992. He and his wife Sabine transferred a large proportion of their shares in Schöck AG to the foundations. This made them the largest shareholders in the company. A substantial part of the dividends earned by Schöck employees is therefore donated to charitable causes.
Foundation advisory board members and founders
from left (back row): Felicitas Schöck, Robin Schöck and Simone Schöck
(front row): Sabine Schöck (†) and Eberhard Schöck (†)
Felicitas Schöck, Advisory Board Member
Robin Schöck, Advisory Board Chairman
Simone Schöck, Deputy Advisory Board Chairwoman
Sabine Schöck, Founder and Advisory Board Chairwoman, died on 10 July 2025
Eberhard Schöck, Founder, died on 19 January 2022
Sebastian Schöck, Advisory Board Member, died on 8 November 2015
“As founder, our dear mother Sabine Schöck had a decisive influence on the values of the foundation from the very beginning and performed her duties as Chair of the Advisory Board with great passion.
Her commitment to disadvantaged people was exemplary. She was always deeply moved by the poverty she encountered. We are grateful for the valuable inspiration she gave us. It will always be an important part of our work. We miss her great humanity and her courage to address unpleasant issues, and she will always be a role model for us.
Together with our mother, our dear father Eberhard Schöck instilled a spirit of modesty, sharing and social commitment in our family and in the company. We will always be grateful to him for this, and he will live on in our hearts.
Our beloved son and brother Sebastian Schöck was a valuable member of the advisory board with his critical perspective and his questioning as well as his wealth of knowledge.”
Our Founders
Sabine and Eberhard Schöck
Sabine Schöck
(1937 – 2025)
Sabine Schöck was born in Dahlewitz near Berlin in 1937. In 1944, she and her mother were forced to escape from the advancing Russians as a result of the war. Mother and daughter found refuge on a farm near Bamberg. It was not until she was 16 years old that her father returned from captivity as a prisoner of war.
After attending grammar school and commercial college, she completed a traineeship at a publishing house in Stuttgart. In 1961, Sabine Schöck moved to Baden-Baden, where she married Eberhard Schöck. Sabine Schöck stood by her husband’s side since the founding of the Schöck company in 1962. They had four children by 1968.
She had already discovered her gift for writing poetry at the age of nine. Her poems were published in the local newspaper at the time, allowing the young poet to earn a few pennies.
It was only when her children had grown up that Sabine Schöck returned to her poetic gift. From 1988 onwards, SWR radio presenter Baldur Seifert, who died in 2003, made Sabine Schöck’s poems accessible to a wide audience on his programme ‘von 10 bis 12 am Sonntag’ (from 10 to 12 on Sunday). She headed the authors’ group at the ‘Steinbach Ensemble’ founded by Baldur Seifert. Further published works followed, including fairy tales.
Sabine Schöck was considered a great patron of the spa town’s culture and, with her literary work and the founding of the ‘Literarisches Café Baden-Baden’ (Baden-Baden Literary Café), she shaped an institution that is known beyond the region.
In addition to many other activities, Sabine Schöck was also co-founder and member of the board of trustees of the Eberhard-Schöck-Stiftung, supported charitable causes and organised visiting services for elderly and sick people.
In 2012, she initiated the Schöck-Familien-Stiftung with the involvement of her children and performed her duties as chair of the advisory board with great passion.
Sabine Schöck was awarded the Staufer Medal for Special Merit in 2020.
Eberhard Schöck
(1935 – 2022)
Eberhard Schöck was born in Nürtingen, Germany on April 26, 1935. After completing school, apprenticing as a bricklayer and internships with an architect and at a factory for prefabricated parts, he began his civil engineering studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart. In 1956, he received an award for the best interim exam.
Subsequently, he enrolled at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Before and during his studies, he completed various internships abroad: in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, in England and in Turkey. This gave him a deep appreciation for cultural exchange with other countries.
In 1958, he completed his civil engineering degree in Hamburg. At his first job with the Institute for Human Factors at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, his responsibilities included finding ways to make construction methods more efficient. He became absorbed with this notion. All of his later inventions and innovations served to improve building quality and make the construction process more efficient.
In 1962, Eberhard Schöck founded his own construction company as well as Schöck Bauteile GmbH in Varnhalt near Baden-Baden, Germany. Since its inception, the company has grown into an international supplier of construction materials; the Schöck Group employs more than 1,000 people. The main focus of the Schöck Group is the development of ready-made construction parts that integrate into the engineered structure and benefit the structural physics of the building, for instance by reducing the number of thermal bridges in overhangs and adding sound insulation. Innovative reinforcement technology is also being developed.
During his time as managing director, he always sought contact with employees in all areas and took their concerns seriously. This earned him great sympathy and respect even after his death.
In 1992, he founded the Eberhard Schöck Foundation, which he chaired. In 2017, he handed the chairmanship over to his daughter Simone.
In 2012, he supported his wife in establishing the Schöck-Familien-Stiftung gGmbH.
In 2018, he was awarded the Staufer Medal for Special Merit by the Minister President of the State of Baden-Württemberg.