Ekkehard Schulz
Ekkehard D. Schulz (born July 24, 1941 in Bromberg ) is a German manager.
Life
Ekkehard Dietrich Schulz was born on July 24, 1941 as the son of a bank director in Bromberg / West Prussia. After his father's death and his expulsion, he grew up with his mother and grandmother in a forester's house in the Palatinate. After graduating from high school in 1961, Schulz studied iron and steel engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal , where he obtained his diploma in 1967 and also obtained his doctorate in 1971 .
He then joined the Thyssen Group in 1972 as assistant to the Executive Board at Thyssen Niederrhein AG . In 1985 he was promoted to the Executive Board of Thyssen Stahl AG, where he initiated the merger of the previously independent steel and stainless steel divisions and massively reduced the number of employees from 58,000 to 35,000 between 1992 and 1996. In March 1991 Schulz rose to the Executive Board of Thyssen AG . In 1998 Schulz was appointed CEO of Thyssen AG.
In 1999, together with Gerhard Cromme, he was one of the initiators of the merger of Krupp - Hoesch and Thyssen to form ThyssenKrupp AG. From 1999 to January 2011 he was CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG. His successor there was Heinrich Hiesinger .
Schulz moved to the supervisory board in 2011, from which he had to resign at the end of the same year, after billions in losses due to the construction of a new steelworks in Brazil became apparent. When the plant was built, the forecast costs had been exceeded by far, and steel prices also collapsed as a result of the financial crisis. Thyssen-Krupp made write-downs / write-downs of 2.1 billion euros on the steel business in Brazil and the USA and posted a loss of 1.8 billion euros in fiscal 2010/2011 (September 30).
Schulz is (as of March 2013) on four supervisory boards: at Axa, Bayer, MAN and RWE. He holds positions at the Fraunhofer Society and Acatech. He is also responsible for raw materials on behalf of the BDI and the federal government.
Schulz is a member of the support association of the TU Clausthal and of the Academic Sports Association Barbara in the Academic Gymnastics Association (ATB) .
In August 2010 Schulz positioned himself as one of 40 prominent signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , a lobbying initiative of the four major electricity companies to promote the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants.
Until June 30, 2006 he was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG . His successor in this function was Eckhard Cordes .
Awards
- 1999: Honorary professor at Clausthal University of Technology
- 2008: Innovation award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for his life's work
Fonts
- 55 reasons to become an engineer. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86774-105-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Ekkehard Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Ekkehard Schulz - Munzinger biography. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Vita on thyssenkrupp.com ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marian Blasberg, Martin Kotynek : steel business: the sunken billions . In: The time . July 5, 2012, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 23, 2017]).
- ↑ handelsblatt.com January 20, 2012: Interview
- ↑ Report of the DB Supervisory Board for an IPO . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 8–9 / 2006, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 378.
- ↑ Award of the innovation prize of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on November 2, 2009 , accessed on October 20, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulz, Ekkehard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schulz, Ekkehard D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg |