Eberhard von Kuenheim

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Eberhard von Kuenheim (born October 2, 1928 at Juditten Castle in East Prussia ) is a German manager . From 1970 to 1993 he was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG .

Life

Juditten Castle

Eberhard von Kuenheim was born in 1928 at Juditten Castle (near Bartenstein , today Poland) as the youngest of four children of the East Prussian Fideikommiss landowner Volmar von Kuenheim (1891–1935) and his first wife Sophie née. von Gottberg (1896–1945) born. The father had a large Trakehner stud. The parents' marriage in 1918 was divorced in 1932. The father married Gertrud Gillweit (1903–1990) in 1933. His father died in 1935 after falling from his horse. The mother of Kuenheim died in the summer of 1945 in a Soviet camp after her second husband, Hans Christoph von Burkersroda, had died in Siberian captivity in early May 1945. The family came from the Alsatian nobility, but died out until the branch that immigrated to East Prussia at the end of the 13th century.

Kuenheim attended the elite boarding school in Salem and, after his release from prisoner-of-war, studied mechanical engineering at what was then the TH Stuttgart until 1954 , where he joined the Corps Teutonia . He earns his living and tuition fees as an assembly line worker at Bosch .

After completing his studies, von Kuenheim worked for the machine tool manufacturer Max Müller in Hanover (today: Gildemeister AG ). In 1965, Kuenheim took up a position as “staff man for technical questions” at the Quandt Group. In this position, he moved from Industriewerke Karlsruhe (IWKA) to BMW in 1969 .

On January 1, 1970, the major BMW shareholder Herbert Quandt , succeeding Gerhard Wilcke, who was in poor health, transferred the chairmanship of BMW AG with around 20,000 employees and a turnover of DM 1 billion to him. In 1972 he introduced the 5-series, including a new type system that goes back to the then BMW Marketing Director Robert A. "Bob" Lutz and is still relevant today.

BMW main administration building (" BMW four-cylinder ")

The BMW main administration building (" BMW four-cylinder ") designed by the Viennese architect Karl Schwanzer next to the Munich Olympic site was moved into in 1973.

At the end of his tenure as CEO on May 13, 1993, BMW AG had 70,000 employees and sales of DM 30 billion. New production sites were set up in Germany ( Regensburg , Spandau ), Austria , South Africa and the USA .

After Bernd Pischetsrieder took over as Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG in 1993, Kuenheim was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG until 1999. In 2000, BMW AG set up the Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation in his honor , and chaired its board of trustees until 2010. Since the chairmanship was handed over to Bolko von Oetinger , Kuenheim has been the honorary chairman of the board of trustees.

In the course of the Rover fiasco, Kuenheim was criticized for not preventing a management crisis as chairman of the supervisory board . After his retirement as CEO, he did not appoint Wolfgang Reitzle , but Bernd Pischetsrieder as his successor at the top of the group. While Reitzle wanted to limit the Rover billions in losses through radical cuts, this was prevented by the more moderate Pischetsrieder. In a spectacular Supervisory Board meeting on February 5, 1999, both board members were dismissed. Reitzles appointment as chairman of the board failed due to the resistance of the employee representatives, so that completely surprisingly Joachim Milberg took over the chairmanship of the board of BMW AG . Reitzle was CEO of Linde AG until May 2014 .

Varia

Gut Mockritz (Großweitzschen) in Saxony

With his wife Theda, née Camp von Schönberg , (1923–2015) von Kuenheim had two sons, Fabian (* 1957) and Hendrik (* 1959) and their daughter Alexandra (* 1962). In 1993 he and his wife bought back their expropriated parental home, Gut Mockritz in Saxony. His son Hendrik von Kuenheim , a trained hotel clerk, managed BMW's motorcycle division from 2008 to 2012 . Kuenheim is a cousin of the journalist ( Die Zeit ) Haug von Kuenheim .

Honors

Von Kuenheim is a member of the Automotive Hall of Fame (since 2004), the European Automotive Hall of Fame (since 2006) and the Business Hall of Fame ( Manager Magazin , since 1993).

He is an honorary doctor from the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Clausthal.

The building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich on the TU campus in Garching near Munich bears the name "Eberhard von Kuenheim-Bau" in his honor. Von Kuenheim is also an Honorary Senator (1982) and holder of the Golden Ring of Honor (2008) of the Technical University of Munich .

On September 30, 1988 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with a star , the shoulder ribbon in 1993 and the Great Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Munich in 1993 and the Golden Medal of the City of Regensburg in 1987.

Since 1998 von Kuenheim has been honorary president of the vbw - Association of Bavarian Business . V.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b wiwo.de - heads of the economy: Eberhard von Kuenheim. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved June 21, 2010 . 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.wiwo.de
  2. ↑ The noble family Kuhnheim-Kuenheim. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Pioneers of the economy: Eberhard von Kuenheim. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Christoph Hardt, Christoph Neßhöfer: Eberhard von Kuenheim: "The eagle best flies alone" . In: Handelsblatt . Series: Pioneers of Business. Handelsblatt publishing group , December 15, 2005, ISSN  0017-7296 ( handelsblatt.com [accessed June 21, 2010]).
  5. ↑ a b Christoph Hardt, Christoph Neßhöfer: The eagle flies best alone . In: Bernd Ziesemer (Hrsg.): Pioneers of the German economy: what we can learn from the great entrepreneurial personalities . Campus, Frankfurt am Main; New York 2006, ISBN 3-593-38121-4 , pp. 207–236 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2010]).
  6. ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Quandts . her quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany. Campus, Frankfurt [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 3-404-61550-6 , pp. 288 .
  7. ↑ BMW AG report on the 1993 financial year ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / bmw-grouparchiv.de
  8. ↑ a b Welt Online: Discontinued model with scratches. May 18, 1999, accessed April 19, 2011 .
  9. ↑ manager magazin Online: Eberhard von Kuenheim: Rolled over by the junk truck Rover. September 29, 2003, accessed April 19, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle resigned at the request of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board von Kuenheim ( Memento from July 18, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Family von Schönberg. In: familie-von-schoenberg.de. Retrieved December 29, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Alexandra Ischler-von Kuenheim - IEG. (No longer available online.) In: ieg-banking.de. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 . 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.ieg-banking.de
  13. ↑ Hendrik von Kuenheim - In the footsteps of his father at BMW ( Memento from November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) FTD Online, November 7, 2007
  14. ^ Automotive Hall of Fame. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; Retrieved April 10, 2011 . 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.automotivehalloffame.org
  15. ↑ autonews: European Automotive Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Manager Magazin: Business Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  17. ^ TU Munich - honorary doctorates. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  18. ^ TU Clausthal - Prizes and awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 11, 2010 ; Retrieved June 21, 2010 . 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.tu-clausthal.de
  19. ^ TU Munich - Honorary Senators. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  20. ^ TU Munich - Ring of Honor. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
  21. ↑ High distinction for v. Kuenheim . In: BMW AG (Ed.): Bayernmotor . BMW employee newspaper. No. 11 , November 1988, ZDB -ID 558618-5 , p. 2 ( bmw-grouparchiv.de retrieval = 2017-02-04).
  22. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 8, 1993
  23. ↑ City of Munich - Honorary Coin. Retrieved March 28, 2012 .
  24. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 8, 1993
  25. ↑ Handicraft market: vbw honorary president turns 80 ( memento from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Kuenheim, Eberhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur (BMW)
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Juditten, East Prussia