Heike Hanagarth

Heike Hanagarth (born April 11, 1959 in Karlsruhe ) is a German engineer . She was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn AG and DB Mobility Logistics AG .

On July 22, 2013, she was appointed to the management board of Deutsche Bahn AG and DB Mobility Logistics AG. She took over this role on December 1, 2013. She resigned from the Board of Management with effect from the end of July 2015. She was previously head of engine production at the BMW plant in Munich .

Working life

After studying mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe , she did her doctorate in 1989 on the subject of the effects of surface treatments on the fatigue behavior of TiAl6V4 [TiAlV] and 42 CrMo 4 at elevated temperatures .

She began her career in 1988 at Daimler-Benz , as assistant to the plant management in the Mannheim commercial vehicle engine plant. She worked for Daimler-Benz until 1998.

In 1998 she became head of engine and genset assembly at MTU Friedrichshafen . Due to the growing number of units, she was later commissioned to reorganize the entire 500-employee production process. Around 2000 she was the main department head for assembly, test stands and painting. From 2005 she was responsible for the development and expansion of global quality and risk management for engine and joint production at MTU headquarters. From 2007 onwards, as part of the reorganization of the company and the IPO, she was responsible for the global development and expansion of quality and risk management in the Tognum Group. Subsequently, with effect from March 1, 2008, she became Managing Director of Tognums' Rotorion division. In 2009 she was involved in the merger of Rotorion and MTU.

In 2011 she took over the management of BMW engine production in Munich. Hanagarth was the main department head at the company's third management level and was responsible for 2000 employees (as of July 2013).

Change to Deutsche Bahn

Railway boss Rüdiger Grube wanted to fill the newly created board position for technology with a woman. Furthermore, the federal government, as the owner of Deutsche Bahn, pushed for a woman. According to his own information, Grube himself looked for possible candidates on the Internet.

On July 22, 2013, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG decided at a special meeting to appoint Hanagarth as the successor to Volker Kefer as head of the technology department for an initial period of three years . The Personnel Committee of the Supervisory Board decided in favor of Hanagarth on July 19, 2013. In addition to Hanagarth, there was also a male candidate for election.

On July 24, 2013, it was presented at the half-year press conference. Her employment contract with BMW would not allow her to start work until April 2014. Deutsche Bahn and BMW then negotiated an early switch.

She was finally formally appointed at the Supervisory Board meeting on September 18, 2013 from December 1, 2013 to November 30, 2016. She was the first female board member responsible for technology in a large German company. Four years after Margret Suckale left the company , there was again a woman on the company's board of directors.

The technology department is responsible for purchasing, quality, the environment and innovations in the DB Group. One of her tasks was to get a grip on persistent problems with delivery delays for vehicles.

Internal critics complained that Hanagarth lacked visibility and asked about the purpose of the department. She did not get along with the technology department and the corporate structures.

On July 15, 2015, Deutsche Bahn announced that Hanagarth would resign from the management board with effect from the end of July 2015 as part of a realignment of the DB Group.

Further career

Hanagarth is Senator of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers for the research area “Aviation, Space Travel and Transport”. In February 2015 she was appointed to the expert committee of the high-tech forum for the implementation and further development of the high-tech strategy of the federal government. On July 1, 2016, she was appointed to the supervisory board of Lanxess AG .

Others

• She is married and has one son.
• She is a member of the board of trustees of the Leipzig Bach Archive
• Her hobbies include music and painting.

literature

• Heike Hanagarth , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/2014 from February 11, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} A woman should solve the technical problems of the railway. In: Welt online . 22. July 2013; Retrieved July 23, 2013.
2. ↑ Dr. Heike Hanagarth - Chief Technology Officer at DB AG and DB ML AG ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) CV on the Deutsche Bahn Group website
3. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Bahn AG (ed.): Ulrich Weber will remain DB Human Resources Director until 2017. Press release from September 19, 2013. Press release from September 18, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Heike Hanagarth resigns from the Management Board. Deutsche Bahn AG, press release from July 15, 2015.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Nikolaus Doll, Daniel Zwick: The train driver . In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 30 , July 28, 2013, p. 26 ( welt.de ).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} New management at Rotorion . In: Südkurier . February 8, 2008.
7. ↑ Südkurier . December 2, 2000.
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus Fasse, Dieter Fockenbrock: Career in seven mile boots . In: Handelsblatt . No. 139 , July 23, 2013, p. 47 .
9. ↑ Heike Hanagarth is the new Chief Technology Officer at DB. ( Memento of August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Deutsche Bahn AG, press release, July 22, 2013; Retrieved July 23, 2013.
10. ↑ Dieter Fockenbrock: The onward journey is delayed . In: Handelsblatt . July 25, 2013, p. 18 .
11. ↑ Christoph Schlautmann: In an express train to power . In: Handelsblatt . No. 135 , July 17, 2015, p. 14th f .
12. ↑ Michael Machatschke: The switchman . In: Manager Magazin . No. 5 , April 28, 2017, ISSN  0047-5726 , p. 16 .
13. ↑ helmholtz.de
14. ↑ Change in the supervisory board of LANXESS AG