Dietmar Harting

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Dietmar Harting (born September 15, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German entrepreneur . He was u. a. President of the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) and several national and international standardization organizations.

Life

Harting was born in Berlin as the son of the engineer Wilhelm Harting and his wife Marie and lived with his parents in what is now the Minden district of Dankersen until he was 18 . He completed his studies in electrical engineering and economics in Munich , Hanover and Cologne in 1967 with a degree in business administration. He then joined his parents' company, founded in 1945, which after the death of Wilhelm Harting (1962) was initially run by Marie Harting (d. 1989) and later together with their sons Dietmar and Jürgen (d. 1973). In 1973 Dietmar Harting became managing partner of HARTING Elektronik GmbH; since 1996 he has been CEO of the HARTING Technology Group. In October 2015 he handed over the office to his son Philip, but is still a member of the board. The company, wholly owned by the family, is a leading global provider of industrial connectivity technology for data, signal and power and is represented with 13 production sites (including in the USA, Mexico and China) and branches in 43 countries. In the 2016/2017 financial year, the group achieved sales of EUR 586 million with around 4,300 employees.

In 1992 Harting became a board member of the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) and was its president from 1998 to 2004 as the first medium-sized entrepreneur. From November 2003 to November 2004 he headed the German Institute for Standardization eV (DIN) as President and was Vice President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) from 2001 to 2004. In 1996 he took over the chairmanship of the exhibitors' advisory board of Hannover Messe Industrie, headed the European Electronic Component Manufactures Association (EECA) from 1999 to 2001 and the Comité Européen de Normalization Electrotechnique (CENELEC) from 2008 to 2009. From 1995 to 1998 Harting was a member of the "Council for Research, Technology and Innovation" with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and from 2004 to 2006 of the "Partner for Innovation" initiative with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. Dietmar Harting has received numerous awards and honors for his services.

Dietmar Harting is married to Margrit Harting, a business teacher. She is the general authorized partner of the family company. The couple's two children work in the management of the HARTING Foundation & Co. KG; as chairman of the board (Dipl.-Kfm. Philip Harting) or board member (Dipl.-Kffr. Maresa Harting-Hertz). At the headquarters in Espelkamp (Minden-Lübbecke district / North Rhine-Westphalia), the entrepreneurs are involved in many ways, supporting, promoting and financing initiatives, projects and facilities in the fields of sport, culture, education and social issues.

Awards

  • 2004: Lower Saxony Order of Merit (1st class)
  • 2004: Honorary presidency of the ZVEI
  • 2008: Gold Medal of Honor from Deutsche Messe AG Hanover
  • 2009: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class (for Dietmar and Margrit Harting).
  • 2009: DIN ring of honor
  • 2009: Honorary citizen of the city of Espelkamp (for Dietmar and Margrit Harting)
  • 2010: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • 2010: Gold pin and honorary chair of the DKE
  • 2013: Practitioner Prize of the Erich Gutenberg Working Group
  • 2019: Karmarsch commemorative coin

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary doctorate for Dietmar Harting , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from November 23, 2010, accessed on November 25, 2010