Alfons Wagner
Alfons Wagner (born August 27, 1890 in Zgierz ; † May 18, 1978 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) was a German metallurgist .
Life
Wagner began studying metallurgy in the winter semester of 1910/11 at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In the same semester he became a member of the Ghibellinia fraternity in Stuttgart . Wagner completed his university education with a doctorate in engineering and mining science . He was the director of Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke AG in Gleiwitz , which was one of the most important suppliers to the automotive industry in the early 1930s.
In the years after the end of the Second World War , he taught metallurgy as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich and was a member of the supervisory boards of Daimler-Benz AG and Maximilianshütte for several years .
In October 1961 he was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bayerische Motoren-Werke AG (BMW). In the spring of 1962, in disagreement about the appointment of Ernst Kämpfer as general director, there was a break with major shareholder Herbert Quandt and Wagner resigned from his office in August 1962.
literature
- Handbook of German Science: Vol. 2: Biographical Directory. - Berlin: Koetschau, 1949
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1950. - 7th edition. - Berlin: Gruyter, 1950
Web links
- BMW: Cold Duck , In: Der Spiegel 36/1962
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stahl und Eisen , Volume 98, 1978, 2nd half year, pp. 859–860.
- ^ Well-known Ghibellines - Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . In: Stuttgarter Burschenschaft Ghibellinia . ( ghibellinen.de [accessed on November 14, 2017]).
Current members: Norbert Reithofer (chairman) | Manfred Schoch (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Quandt (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Schmid (Deputy Chairman) | Karl-Ludwig Kley (Deputy Chairman) | Christiane Benner | Kurt Bock | Verena zu Dohna-Jaeger (employee representative) | Heinrich Hiesinger | Reinhard F. Hüttl | Susanne Klatten | Anke Schäferkordt | Horst Lischka (employee representative) | Willibald Löw (employee representative) | Simone Menne | Dominique Mohabeer (employee representative) | Brigitte Rödig (employee representative) | Vishal Sikka | Thomas Wittig (employee representative) | Werner Zierer (employee representative)
Former chairmen of the supervisory board: Hans Christian Dietrich (1918–1920) | Johannes Philipp Vielmetter (from 1920) | Albert Pinner (1921–1923) | Emil Georg von Stauß (1926–1942) | Hans Rummel (1942–1945) | Hans Karl von Mangoldt-Reiboldt (1948–1959) | Hans Feith (1959–1960) | Johannes Ferdinand Semler (1960–1961) | Alfons Wagner (1961–1962) | Hermann Karoli (1962–1972) | Rolf Draeger (1972–1974) | Herbert Quandt (1974–1980) | Hans von der Goltz (1980–1993) | Eberhard von Kuenheim (1993–1999) | Volker Doppelfeld (1999–2004) | Joachim Milberg (2004–2015) Renate Köcher |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metallurgist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zgierz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1978 |
| Place of death | Aschau im Chiemgau |