Ernst Pieper

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Ernst Pieper (3rd from left) during the Leipziger Messe 1981, in the picture also Erich Honecker (2nd from left) and Klaus Bölling (5th from left)
Ernst Pieper (center) and Peter Welzel (GDR metallurgy trade) signed a contract for the rolling of steel during the Leipzig trade fair in 1988

Ernst Pieper (born December 20, 1928 in Gerolstein ; † February 4, 1995 in Braunschweig ) was a German industrial manager , former CEO of Salzgitter AG and Preussag AG.

Life

Pieper studied economics in Bonn and Cologne from 1950 to 1953 and graduated from Cologne with a degree in business administration in 1953 . From 1954 he then worked at Klöckner-Werke AG , Duisburg. In 1961 he became head of the tax department of the group holding company. In 1962 Pieper moved to the Federal Office for Commercial Economics . There he acted as a corporate officer in the context of the concentration survey that the office had to carry out on behalf of the Bundestag . In the Federal Ministry of Economics since 1964 , he became a consultant for federal investments in 1968, and in 1972 head of the sub-department for capital goods, chemicals and federal industrial investments. In 1974, Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt made him head of Department VIII "Industrial Federal Assets" in the Federal Ministry of Finance .

In May 1977 Pieper joined the board of directors of Salzgitter AG, wholly owned by the federal government, and became its chairman in 1979. He led the company, which was mainly focused on steel and shipbuilding and was struggling with a profound structural crisis, back into profitability. After the failed takeover of the automotive supplier Fichtel & Sachs , Pieper initiated the largest merger in West Germany's post-war history. In 1989 the raw materials and technology group Preussag AG took over Salzgitter AG for a purchase price of approx. DM 2.5 billion. Pieper replaced the previous Chairman of the Board of Management of Preussag and in 1990 took over the management of the group, which he moved into the core areas of steel, non-ferrous Metals, energy, shipyards and wagon construction as well as in the expansion fields of traffic, building technology, plant construction, environmental and information technology. With this merger, it showed a sense of social responsibility: neither plants had to be closed nor large numbers of employees had to be laid off. In 1992/93 sales of approx. DM 23 billion were achieved. In 1994 Pieper retired.

He was a member of the supervisory board of Continental AG and Rhenus AG as well as a member of the board of directors of the International Iron and Steel Institute . Most recently he was chairman of the supervisory board of Dasa successor company Aircraft Services Lemwerder .

Pieper had been married to Marianne Hansen (1928–1994) since 1953 and had their children Joachim (* 1956) and Anne (* 1960). After his death, Marianne and Dr. Ernst Pieper Fund founded by Tel Aviv University in recognition of the Pieper couple's commitment to anti-Semitism and to German-Jewish reconciliation.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Pieper, German industrial manager; SPD. In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/1995. Munzinger, May 8, 1995, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Elke Hlawatschek:  Ernst Pieper. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 426 f. ( Digitized version ). Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ernst Pieper. In: Der Spiegel 8/1980. February 18, 1980, p. 52 , accessed November 30, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b c Man with social consciousness. (PDF) Ex-Preussag boss Ernst Pieper dies. In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger. February 8, 1995, p. 27 , archived from the original on December 4, 2014 ; Retrieved November 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Pieper . In: Dirk Böttcher u. a. (Ed.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . from the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 285 , col. 1–2 ( books.google.de [accessed November 30, 2014]).
  6. ↑ Hans J. Selenz: Wild West on the executive floor. Schröder's fight for Salzgitter and the chancellorship . Buch & Media, 2005, ISBN 3-86520-140-7 , pp. 23 ( das-abwasserfrei-grundstueck.de ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on November 29, 2014]).
  7. ^ Ex-Preussag boss Ernst Pieper has died. In: Berliner Zeitung. February 7, 1995, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ For tolerance in football. (No longer available online.) In: Press release Landeshauptstadt Hannover. ihme Bote, January 18, 2007, archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; Retrieved November 30, 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 / archiv.ihmebote.de
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolstein
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1995
Place of death Braunschweig