Jürgen Dormann

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Peter Jürgen Dormann (born January 12, 1940 in Heidelberg ) is a former German manager .

Career

After completing his studies in economics in Cologne, Berlin, Würzburg, Basel and Heidelberg as a graduate economist , Jürgen Dormann 1963 by the Hoechst hired AG as a management trainee. He initially worked in sales, but switched to the fiber sector in 1965. In 1975 Dormann was appointed deputy head of the commercial directorate department and headed the central directorate department from 1980 to 1984.

In 1984 Dormann became a member of the Management Board of Hoechst AG and took over the management of the Fine Chemicals and Colors division. From 1987 on, he succeeded Hans Reintges and was responsible for finance and accounting, IT and communication and the North America region.

In 1994 Dormann replaced Wolfgang Hilger as CEO of Hoechst AG in Frankfurt am Main, making him the first non-chemist in this position. In mid-1995, he began spinning off business areas and subsidiaries into independent companies or selling them to other companies, such as specialty chemicals to the Swiss company Clariant in 1997 , and focusing the remaining business areas on “life science core businesses” (pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals). Until 1998 the group profits steadily deteriorated.

In 1999 he merged the remaining pharmaceutical division of Hoechst AG with his former competitor Rhône-Poulenc SA to form Aventis SA In 2003 Dormann moved from the management board to the supervisory board of Aventis.

From September 2002 to December 2004 Dormann also headed Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO ) and was its Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2001 to 2007 . After Aventis was taken over by the competitor Sanofi-Synthélabo in 2004 , Jürgen Dormann became vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the newly formed joint company sanofi-aventis from 2005 to 2008.

In November 2008 Dormann succeeded Ulrich Bremi as President of the Board of Trustees of the ETH Zurich Foundation .

On August 18, 2009, Jürgen Dormann was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors for a period of three years at an extraordinary general meeting of Sulzer AG . He received 97.4 percent of the shareholders' votes (56.8 percent of the share capital was represented). In March 2013 he was replaced by Manfred Wennemer .

Previous mandates

  • Metall Zug AG: former Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • V-Zug AG: former Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • BG Group : former board member from 2005 to 2010
  • IBM : former director from 1996 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2008
  • Adecco : Former board member from 2004 to 2008 (Chairman from 2007 to 2008)

Private

Dormann is married and has four children.

Awards

  • "Chemical accident" in Capital 22nd Sep 2014: .. is considered to be the first German manager who concentrated solely on increasing shareholder value - even if the company went under. (quoted).

Works

literature

  • Werner Catrina : ABB - The betrayed vision . Orell Füssli, 2003, ISBN 3-280-06004-4 .
  • Christoph Wehnelt: Hoechst: downfall of the German global corporation . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-597-4 .
  • Simon Grand, Daniel Bartl: Executive Management in Practice: Development - Enforcement - Application . Campus, Frankfurt am Main, 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39548-7 .
  • Anna Bálint: Sulzer is changing. Innovation out of tradition . Edited by Sulzer AG. Here and Now, Baden, 2015, ISBN 978-3-03919-319-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Jürgen Dormann. ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: infocube.ch, accessed on July 27, 2013
  2. ↑ Anna Bálint: Clariant clareant: The beginnings of a specialty chemicals company . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39375-9 , pp. 97-114 .
  3. ↑ Hoechst should continue to shrink: 1998 is expected to be a difficult year
  4. ↑ December 1999: Hoechst wants to merge with Rhône Poulenc faster
  5. ↑ ABB Germany: Dormann takes over chairmanship of the supervisory board
  6. ↑ Jürgen Dormann new Chairman of the Board of Directors. ( Memento of February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Sulzer media release of August 18, 2009 (PDF file; 24 kB)
  7. ↑ Sulzer with Manfred Wennemer as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors and an increased dividend of CHF 3.20 per share. ( Memento of March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Sulzer media release of March 27, 2013
  8. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/koepfe/mdj/0,2828,167366,00.html
personal data
SURNAME Dormann, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dormann, Peter Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg