Gerhard Falch

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Gerhard Falch (born July 13, 1948 in Polling im Innkreis ; † February 19, 2019 in Braunau am Inn ) was an Austrian industrial manager . From 2007 to 2014 he was General Director of AMAG Austria Metall AG in Ranshofen .

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Gerhard Falch was born on July 13, 1948 as the son of a school principal and an innkeeper in the small Innviertel community of Polling. He attended elementary school and secondary school in the district capital Braunau, where he graduated in 1966 . He then began studying process engineering with one interruption at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Graz University of Technology , graduating in 1978 with a degree in engineering . He then worked for a construction company in Stuttgart for a year before he returned to his home country and started working in industrial plant construction at voestalpine in 1979 . From 1980 to 1986 he managed two major projects in Southeast Asia and was then head of the chemical technology division from 1986 to 1992 , and subsequently managing director of three voestalpine subsidiaries until 1994.

From 1994 onwards, Falch was on the board of the nationalized Elektro Bau AG , which merged in 1997 with the likewise nationalized ELIN-UNION AG to form VA Technologie , based in Linz . From this time he was a member of the board of the said technology group belonging to voestalpine. In 1999 he became CEO of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH (VAI), which subsequently became part of the Siemens Group and was continued as Siemens VAI and has been a Primetals Technologies company since 2015 . From 2002 he was Deputy General Director of VA Technologie AG and, after the company was taken over by Siemens, he was a member of the Management Board of Siemens Austria from 2005 to 2007 .

In September 2007, the 59-year-old Falch was appointed CEO and thus General Director of AMAG Austria Metall AG , based in Ranshofen , near his birthplace. Under his leadership, the company went public in the spring of 2011. Until March 2014, a few months before the majority takeover by B&C Industrieholding , Falch remained in the position of CEO of the Upper Austrian aluminum company and then retired. Helmut Wieser was announced as his successor as CEO of the group in September 2013 . After that, Falch remained deputy chairman of the supervisory board. Partly in parallel, he was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Energie AG Oberösterreich from 2008 to 2018 . Furthermore, he was temporarily on the supervisory board of VA Intertrading Aktiengesellschaft , as well as chairman of the supervisory board of Asamer Holding . Due to health problems, he largely withdrew from all areas of activity in 2017 and 2018.

In the municipality where he lived , Falch took part in local politics for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), where he was temporarily a member of the municipal council and vice mayor. Furthermore, since April 30, 1996, he has been a functionary (advisory board, executive committee) of the local football club SV Antiesenhofen .

Through Ludwig Scharinger and Eduard Saxinger , Falch came into contact with the Austrian Cartell Association and the non-striking color-bearing student association K.Ö.St.V. Severina from Linz, of which he became an honorary member. Together with former governor Josef Ratzenböck , Falch was awarded the Severina ribbon.

On February 19, 2019, Kommerzialrat Falch died after a long, serious illness at the age of 70 in Braunau am Inn . In the last few years before his death, Falch was badly affected and was no longer able to attend the official dates, including the opening of AMAG's new cold rolling mill in June 2017. He left his wife Sylvia Maria and their two adult daughters Verena and Stephanie with families. After the funeral service in the Reichersberg Abbey , Falch was buried at the Antiesenhofen cemetery.

Honors

Falch was honored many times throughout his life; Among other things, he was Honorary Senator of the University of Linz and holder of the Golden Medal of Honor of the State of Upper Austria .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Austrian technology company AMAG Austria Metall AG goes public: Shares available from today , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bumpy stock market start for AMAG shares , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ Helmut Wieser will be the new Amag boss , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Falch hands over to Helmut Wieser in 2014 , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ EX-AMAG boss Gerhard Falch deceased , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  6. ^ A piece of industrial history goes with Gerhard Falch , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Pate Dip.-Ing. Gerhard Falch , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Mourning for Commercial Council Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Falch , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  9. ↑ Long-time Amag boss Gerhard Falch has passed away , accessed on July 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ Party of Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Falch (pdf), accessed on July 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Falch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Polling im Innkreis , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2019
Place of death Braunau am Inn , Austria