Dieter Hundt

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Dieter Hundt (2009)

Dieter Hundt (born September 30, 1938 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German entrepreneur , employer and football official. From 2002 to 2013 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VfB Stuttgart and from 1996 to 2013 President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA).

Professional career

After graduating from the Hohenstaufen grammar school in Göppingen , Dieter Hundt studied mechanical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). He then did his doctorate as Dr. sc. techn. at the ETH with a study carried out at Ciba in Basel . During his studies he played soccer for the Grasshoppers Zurich .

In 1964 he started his career at AEG in Frankfurt am Main - initially as assistant to the board member responsible for nuclear energy technology, then as sales manager for boiling water reactors. After the merger of the reactor divisions of AEG and Siemens , Hundt was employed as division manager at Kraftwerk Union . In 1975 the owner family of the Allgaier works in Uhingen (Baden-Württemberg) brought him into the company as managing partner . Hundt also bought 7.5 percent of the company's shares, which he increased to 50% over the years. At the beginning of 2013 he took over the remaining 50% of the company from the granddaughter of the founder. Under his aegis, sales rose from EUR 25 million to EUR 338 million.

From 1988 to 1996 he was chairman of the Association of the Metal Industry Baden-Württemberg (VMI) and from 1988 to 1997 Vice-President of the general association of metal industry employers' associations .

From 1990 to 1996 Hundt was a member of the Presidium and Board of Directors of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), and from 1996 to 2013 he was President of the Association. Hundt has been President of the State Association of Baden-Württemberg Employers 'Associations since 1994 and since December 1996 President of the BDA and Vice President of Businesseurope (Association of European Industry and Employers' Associations - formerly UNICE).

Football official

VfB Stuttgart

After his predecessor Heinz Bandke did not stand for re-election after 27 years in office, Dieter Hundt was elected chairman of the supervisory board of VfB Stuttgart in October 2002 . At the end of the same year, Hundt released VfB manager Rolf Rüssmann from his duties , despite the sporting success of the 2002/03 season which ended with the runner-up . After Giovanni Trapattoni, the successor to coach Felix Magath, who had moved to Munich , was released from his duties in February 2006, Dieter Hundt publicly described the future master coach Armin Veh , who was hired by the new manager Horst Heldt , as a temporary solution .

On July 17, 2011, at a general meeting of VfB Stuttgart, a motion to recall Hundt from the supervisory board was placed on the agenda by a majority of 65.3 percent and supported by 50.7 percent of the members entitled to vote. Because, according to the association's statutes, 75 percent were necessary for a dismissal, Hundt remained in office. At this general meeting, Hundt was accused, among other things, of interfering in the operative business.

When the search for a successor began after Gerd E. Mäuser's resignation as club president on June 3, 2013, it quickly became apparent that there was no prospect of a suitable successor under Hundt's leadership. On June 17, 2013, Dieter Hundt resigned his mandate as chairman of the supervisory board with immediate effect, thus responding to ongoing criticism that recently developed from within his own ranks. With this step he got ahead of three further motions for deselection, which were to be decided at the general meeting on July 22nd. In contrast to the other members of the supervisory board, Hundt was not exonerated at this general meeting.

SV Bad Aussee

After Hundt was asked by a club delegation in his second home in Bad Aussee in Austria to take over the presidency of the then sixth class SV Bad Aussee , Hundt accepted this offer. Dieter Hundt convinced the state politician Gerhard Hirschmann to provide state funds in the millions for the construction of the panorama stadium, which was completed in 2003 . In 2007, SV Bad Aussee achieved their fourth ascent since Hundt took office in the second-class first division . After Bad Aussee had been relegated to the fourth-class national league with two successive relegations within the next two years, bankruptcy proceedings were opened against SV Bad Aussee on June 25, 2009 , which ended with compulsory compensation. Hundt, who had meanwhile taken over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the association, announced in April 2010 that he would no longer be available for any office at SV Bad Aussee. Only a few months after Hundt's withdrawal, SV Bad Aussee was dissolved. The events surrounding this affair were processed realistically by Alexander Haide in the novel "Tot im Tor", but with no clear names.

Other offices, honors and awards

Since 1998 he has been a member of the board of the German Chamber of Commerce in Austria , from 2001 to 2007 1st Vice President and since November 21, 2007 President of the German Chamber of Commerce in Austria; Member of the supervisory boards of Stuttgarter Hofbräu and Deutsche Telekom (until May 2006). He is a member of the board of directors of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (prior to its establishment he was on the board of the merged Landesgirokasse ) and a member of the joint advisory board of the “Allianz companies”, Munich . In addition, he is chairman of the supervisory board of Stauferkreis Beteiligungs-AG and a member of the advisory board of Mannheimer Versicherung .

Hundt was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly on May 23, 2009 . He was nominated by the CDU parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

In 1998 Hundt was made an honorary senator from the University of Stuttgart , and in the same year he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Uhingen. In 2000, because of his efforts to lift the so-called " EU sanctions " against Austria, he received the Great Silver Medal with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 2005 the Greater Silver Medal on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria.

In 2001 Hundt was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria , and a year later he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with a Star. In 2003 he was appointed honorary chairman of Südwestmetall for his services to the association and the Baden-Württemberg metal and electrical industry .

In 2006 Hundt received the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 2007 the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2010 Hundt was also awarded the honorary title of professor by the state government of Baden-Württemberg .

In the album Lieder vom Ende des Kapitalismus (2006), the Cologne-based electro-pop musician PeterLicht Hundt quotes . The song behavior lessons (The Employer President) thematizes a statement by Hundt, according to which school leavers are lacking in behavior and a corresponding subject must be established.

Family and private

Hundt is married to Christina Hundt (* 1938) and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Frese: Dieter Hundt stops . In: Tagesspiegel. November 15, 2013, accessed on November 18, 2013: “Now is the end. On Monday evening, the eternal president will be bid farewell in the Schlüterhof of the German Historical Museum. Angela Merkel will recognize his work and thank him for a successful social partnership that has always been important to Hundt - as an entrepreneur, collective bargaining agent and, finally, employer president. "
  2. ^ Marie-Luise Hauch-Fleck: Social with a hard hand. Die Zeit, December 19, 2001, accessed on April 26, 2013 (portrait of employer president Dieter Hundt).
  3. ↑ Friendly takeover. Dieter Hundt buys another 50 percent from Allgaier and arranges the succession. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, April 29, 2013
  4. ↑ "There was no alternative". Die Welt, December 20, 2002, accessed August 1, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Hundt is still on the "interim solution" Veh. Handelsblatt, March 15, 2006, accessed on August 1, 2012 .
  6. ↑ The new "angry members". (No longer available online.) Swp.de, July 18, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swp.de  
  7. ^ Mandate resigned. (No longer available online.) VfB Stuttgart, June 17, 2013, archived from the original on August 18, 2014 ; Retrieved June 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  8. ^ Palace Revolution at VfB Stuttgart - Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 16, 2013
  9. ↑ New president, old coat of arms, miserable record. sueddeutsche.de, July 23, 2013, accessed on July 23, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Free time is playtime. Handelsblatt, September 10, 2006, accessed on August 1, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Out of control. (No longer available online.) Ballesterer fm, November 14, 2011, archived from the original on October 4, 2012 ; Retrieved August 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ballesterer.at
  12. ↑ SV Bad Aussee has to plan without Dieter Hundt , Kleine Zeitung , online article from April 6, 2010
  13. ↑ Stefan Kraft, Reinhard Krennhuber: Out of control. (No longer available online.) In: Ballesterer Fußballmagazin. November 14, 2011, archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ballesterer.at
  14. ↑ Alexander Haide: Dead in the gate . echomedia buchverlag ges.mbh, 2011, ISBN 978-3-902672-46-9 .
  15. ↑ Alexander Purger: Wolfgang Schüssel. Disclosed . Vienna 2009, p. 103-120 .
  16. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  17. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 52 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Hundt appointed "Professor". Report on stuttgarter-zeitung.de, April 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Hundt, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and employer functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar