The purpose of the foundation is to provide voluntary or extramandatory pension benefits to the employees of the company and their dependents against the economic consequences of old age, disability and death, as well as to support the pension beneficiary or their dependents in cases of need such as illness, accident, disability or unemployment. The foundation may also, by decision of the foundation board, be joined by the personnel of companies economically or financially closely related to the company, provided that the necessary funds are made available to the foundation and the rights of the existing beneficiaries are not impaired. The purpose of the foundation can be fulfilled in particular by providing voluntary additional benefits to the regulatory pension benefits in the event of old age, disability and death; by providing voluntary purchase benefits for the regulatory pension of employees; by providing benefits to finance contributions and insurance premiums to other tax-exempt employee benefit institutions that exist for the benefit of the beneficiaries.