Klaus Liesen

Klaus Liesen (born April 15, 1931 in Cologne ; † March 30, 2017 in Essen ) was a German manager .

Life

Klaus Liesen studied law and also attended lectures in economics and business administration. In the winter semester of 1951/52 he ran for the AStA of the University of Göttingen and was elected its 2nd chairman. After two state exams, Liesen was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After starting his career at Unilever, he worked for three years in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Economics. In 1963 he moved to Ruhrgas AG and was assistant to the board, head of the legal department, head of gas purchasing and transport and head of sales. In 1976 he replaced Herbert Schelberger as CEO of Ruhrgas AG. With the dominant groups owned by Bergemann GmbH, the monopoly-like position in long-distance gas technology and gas trading in the Federal Republic and the financial and energy-political interrelationships in which Ruhrgas AG was integrated, the company was one of the important players in the so-called until the end of the 1990s Germany AG . In 1996 Liesen became chairman of the Ruhrgas AG supervisory board.

He had been a member of the VEBA supervisory board since 1991 . As chairman of the supervisory board of the newly founded E.ON , he shaped the company from 2000 to 2003 and accompanied the merger with Ruhrgas AG. In 2008 he resigned from the E.ON Supervisory Board.

He was honorary chairman of the supervisory board of Ruhrgas AG (since 2003) and Volkswagen AG (since 2006). In 2002, Manager-Magazin classified him as one of the ten most powerful "gray eminences" within the 50 most powerful of Deutschland AG.

In 2003, after seven years of office, Liesen passed on the chairmanship of the Allianz AG Supervisory Board , which Liesen had been a member of since 1983, to Henning Schulte-Noelle . Liesen had ceded the chairmanship of the Volkswagen Group's supervisory board from 1987 to Ferdinand Piëch when he moved from chairman of the board to the supervisory board in 2002 . Liesen came into the light of the wider public with the so-called Lopez Affair : thanks largely to Liesen's skillful mediation, the controversy between General Motors and Volkswagen was settled peacefully. In 2006 Liesen also withdrew from the TUI AG Supervisory Board , in whose Presidium he had accompanied the transformation of the conglomerate Preussag into the world's largest tourism group.

Liesen was active on various boards of trustees and boards of trustees, including a. the Science and Politics Foundation , the Alfred and Cläre Pott Foundation (executive board member since 1980) in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (board member since 1978; chairman of the board from 1980 to 1993), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (member of the board of trustees from 1988 to 2003; chairman since 1999), the Robert Bosch Foundation , Museum Folkwang (Board of Directors of the Folkwang Museum Association) and other bodies. Since 1952 he was a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen .

honors and awards

Great Cross of Merit (1985) with Star (1993) of the Federal Republic of Germany
Honorary doctorate in economics and social sciences
Bavarian Order of Merit
Lower Saxony State Medal 1992
Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2001
Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit
Commander of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau
Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Prize 2001
Honorary member of the donors' association
Richard Merton Badge of Honor

Individual evidence

↑ Industry manager Klaus Liesen is dead. Dpa report on faz.net , March 30, 2017, archived from the original on March 31, 2017 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .
↑ Arne Stuhr: The 50 Mightiest: The Moderator . Manager Magazin , May 9, 2003, accessed March 31, 2017.
^ Schulte-Noelle elected chairman of the supervisory board. Allianz Group press release , April 29, 2003, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 31, 2017 .
^ Statutes of the Science and Politics Foundation (Berlin). Science and Politics Foundation , German Institute for International Politics and Security , November 2000, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 31, 2017 . SWP Articles of Association
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 23 , 1036
^ The state medal . Lower Saxony portal, accessed on March 31, 2017.
^ The Willy Brandt Prize: Prize Winner 2001 . Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation, accessed March 31, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Liesen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manager, ex-supervisory board chairman of the VW group
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 2017

[1] Industry manager Klaus Liesen is dead. Dpa report on faz.net , March 30, 2017, archived from the original on March 31, 2017 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .

[2] Arne Stuhr: The 50 Mightiest: The Moderator . Manager Magazin , May 9, 2003, accessed March 31, 2017.

[3] Schulte-Noelle elected chairman of the supervisory board. Allianz Group press release , April 29, 2003, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 31, 2017 .

[4] Statutes of the Science and Politics Foundation (Berlin). Science and Politics Foundation , German Institute for International Politics and Security , November 2000, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 31, 2017 . SWP Articles of Association

[5] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 23 , 1036

[6] The state medal . Lower Saxony portal, accessed on March 31, 2017.

[7] The Willy Brandt Prize: Prize Winner 2001 . Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation, accessed March 31, 2017.