Dieter Kempf

Dieter Kempf, 2010

Dieter Kempf (born January 10, 1953 in Munich ) is the President of the Federation of German Industries. V. (BDI). Before being elected as BDI President, Kempf was CEO of DATEV eG in Nuremberg for 20 years .

Life

Kempf graduated from school in 1972 with the Abitur at the municipal Adolf-Weber-Gymnasium Munich . He then studied business administration from 1973 to 1978 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and obtained a degree in business administration . Parallel to school and studies, Kempf was one of the first German employees to work for McDonald's for seven years, most recently in administration.

Kempf is married and has a daughter.

job

From 1978 to 1991, Kempf worked for Ernst & Young Germany. In 1989 he was accepted as a partner and was therefore also managing director and co-partner .

From June 1991 to 2016, Kempf worked for DATEV eG in Nuremberg. As a member of the board, he was responsible for product and software development. In July 1996, Kempf became CEO of DATEV eG and held the office until March 2016. At the time of Kempf, DATEV developed from a cooperative operating in Germany to one of the largest IT service providers in Europe.
In 2005, Kempf was appointed honorary professor for business administration at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since 2015 he has also been Chairman of the University Council at Ansbach University.

From 2011 to 2015 Kempf was President of the BDI member association Bitkom and Vice President of the Federal Association of German Industry. V .; before he was finally unanimously elected president by the general assembly. He is also involved in various supervisory boards and advisory boards: Kempf is chairman of the advisory board of the Alliance for Cybersecurity and a member of the advisory board of the Association Germany Safe in the Net (DsiN). He is also a member of the national cyber security council, the supervisory board of Deutsche AG and the Association of Bavarian Cooperative Associations (GVB). He is also a member of the national cyber security council, the supervisory board of Deutsche Messe AG and the association council of the Bavarian cooperative association (GVB).

BDI President Kempf, Federal Chancellor Merkel, BDI General Manager Lang at the Day of German Industry 2017

Kempf was elected president by the general assembly of the BDI on November 28, 2016 in a secret ballot. He took up this position on January 1, 2017 as the successor to Ulrich Grillo . As President of the BDI, the central organization of German industry and industry-related service providers, he speaks to politics and the general public for 36 industry associations and their 100,000 member companies with a total of 8 million employees.

Kempf has been a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission since July 2018 .

Honors

In July 2008 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2015 the State Medal for special services to the Bavarian economy .

Web links

Commons : Dieter Kempf - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Dieter Kempf in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

^ Presidium. BDI, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
↑ McDonald's fan with great ambitions . In: Handelsblatt.com . January 2, 2003. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
↑ ^a ^b Dr. Robert Mayr will lead DATEV in the future. In: www.datev.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
↑ Prof. Dieter Kempf elected as the new President of BITKOM
↑ Dieter Kempf elected as the new BDI President. (PDF; 175 kB) In: Press release. BDI, November 28, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
↑ Our mandate. Our mission statement. Our tasks. BDI, October 29, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
↑ Data Ethics Commission. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs, July 18, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
^ Bavarian State Government : Appointment reminder: Prime Minister Beckstein hands over the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Federal Cross of Merit . Archived from the original on August 9, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Kempf, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg

[bdi1-1] Presidium. BDI, accessed on March 12, 2017 .

[2] McDonald's fan with great ambitions . In: Handelsblatt.com . January 2, 2003. Retrieved September 27, 2009.

[datev-pressemeldung-3] Dr. Robert Mayr will lead DATEV in the future. In: www.datev.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .

[4] Prof. Dieter Kempf elected as the new President of BITKOM

[5] Dieter Kempf elected as the new BDI President. (PDF; 175 kB) In: Press release. BDI, November 28, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2017 .

[bdi2-6] Our mandate. Our mission statement. Our tasks. BDI, October 29, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2017 .

[7] Data Ethics Commission. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs, July 18, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018 .

[8] Bavarian State Government : Appointment reminder: Prime Minister Beckstein hands over the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Federal Cross of Merit . Archived from the original on August 9, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2008.