Balbina Fuchs

The third generation of Fuchs

She grew up in the business her grandfather Klaus Fuchs founded in 1961. She first trained as a bank clerk at Sparkasse Tölz-Wolfratshausen and then worked in the Benediktbeuern branch – plus an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. She then completed her Fachabitur at the BOS Bad Tölz and studied landscape construction and management at the FH Weihenstephan, in the last Diplom-Ingenieur year group. Her diploma thesis “Die Wahrnehmung der Unternehmeraufgabe im Garten- und Landschaftsbau” was graded 1.0 and received an award – which she collected the day after her civil wedding.

From 2010 she worked on the company's construction projects, and her father Fred Fuchs soon brought her into the management. She handled site management, planning and invoicing for her own projects, and for a time also the scheduling of the teams. When her husband Ludwig Fuchs, then a project controller in Munich, joined as well, everyone in the family business found their own area.

With three children, she shifted her focus and took over all of the marketing: she taught herself TYPO3, looked after the website herself, built up Instagram and Facebook, and took care of press and customer relations – flexibly from a home office, with one fixed office day a week. Today she is more present in the business again.

Most recently she registered with the Bavarian Chamber of Architects – a process that requires applicants to document their own projects across all work stages. The protected title of landscape architect is reserved for registered members of the Chamber; at Fuchs baut Gärten, Balbina Fuchs holds it. Today the designs are drawn by our designers – her place is in steering and developing the company, together with Ludwig Fuchs and Elisabeth Simon.

What drives her

What she loves about the green industry is being able to work with nature and in nature – and that good gardens outlast generations: the company still looks after some gardens her grandfather built. A tree planted now is not just for now – and a well-built natural stone wall lasts for ever. Where the right perennial bed stands, the insects come all by themselves, and birds find food in shrubs and trees.

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“How wonderful is it that we can unseal surfaces, add greenery, create a garden on a roof – and make the world more beautiful, greener and healthier.”

Balbina Fuchs

Outside the business

Balbina Fuchs is a volunteer in local politics: she is a member of the Egling municipal council and of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district council. In her free time she performs on stage with the Trachtenverein Wolfratshausen – and at home, her three children keep her on her toes.