Hubertus von Grünberg

Hubertus Eberhard Horst von Grünberg (born July 20, 1942 in Swinoujscie ) is a German manager.

family

Grünberg comes from a noble family from the Neumark, first mentioned in a document in the 13th century, and is the son of the designer Karl Friedrich von Grünberg (1911–1995) and Christel Michaelis (1915– ??). Marshal Blücher was one of his ancestors . He married Ursula Maria Hofmann (born May 5, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) in Kronberg im Taunus on December 17, 1976 , the daughter of the apprentice locomotive driver Willi Hofmann and Charlotte Rudolph.

Life

In 1951 Grünberg and his family fled to West Germany. After high school in Remscheid , he studied physics at the University of Cologne and was established in 1970 with a dissertation on a theory of relativity at Peter Mittelstaedt doctorate .

After working at several automotive suppliers, he became CEO of Continental AG in 1991 . In 1999 he switched to their supervisory board . From 2007 to 2015 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ABB Group; he was followed by Peter Voser .

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A , volume XXVII, page 340, volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9
Barbara Nolte, Jan Heidtmann: The one up there. Interior views from German executive floors. , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12599-1 , p. 153 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Voser is the new ABB President. In: Handelszeitung .ch of April 30, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Grünberg, Hubertus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grünberg, Hubertus Eberhard Horst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German manager, board member of the automotive supplier Continental AG
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Swinoujscie

[1] Peter Voser is the new ABB President. In: Handelszeitung .ch of April 30, 2015.