Heinrich von Pierer
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Erlangen
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) is a German manager
Management
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. From 1992 to 2005, he was CEO of Siemens AG
Siemens AG
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. Subsequently, he was chairman of the supervisory board
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from which he resigned on 25 April 2007.
Pierer studied law
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and economics
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in Erlangen
Erlangen
Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....
and joined Siemens in 1969. From 1977, he worked for the company’s power generation subsidiary Kraftwerk Union AG (KWU). In 1989, he became President of KWU and a member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. In 1992, Pierer succeeded Karlheinz Kaske
Karlheinz Kaske
Karlheinz Kaske was a German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992.Kaske studied Physics at RWTH Aachen and joined Siemens in 1950, when he became an engineer in the Siemens factory at Karlsruhe...
as CEO and held this post until January 2005, when Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld is chief executive officer of Alcoa Inc., and former CEO of Siemens AG.In August 2007, Kleinfeld was appointed COO of Alcoa Inc....
took over.
He is member of several other supervisory boards (e.g., Bayer
Bayer
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and Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
). Pierer is President of the German industry's Asia–Pacific–Committee which he helped to found in 1993. He also functioned as an advisor to the German governments under Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor...
and Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
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.
In April 2004, Pierer became one of the few business leaders to speak at a Security Council meeting, where he reported on his recent meeting with Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai
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and on the infrastructure work Siemens was doing in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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and Iraq
Iraq
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.
He received the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation in 2000.
External links
- Siemens AG Official website
- „Herr von Pierer und sein Name“, Welt am SonntagWelt am SonntagWelt am Sonntag is a German national Sunday newspaper published by Axel Springer AG, and established in 1948. Its head office is in Berlin, and it has local editions for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf....
vom 24.08.2008