Jürgen Strube

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Jürgen Friedrich Strube (born August 19, 1939 in Bochum ) is a German manager . He was from 1990 to 2003 CEO and from 2003 to 2009 chairman of BASF .

Life

After graduating from high school in Bochum in 1959, Strube studied law in Freiburg , Geneva and Munich from 1960 to 1964 . In 1965 he married and had a daughter. In 1967 he was promoted to Dr. jur. did his doctorate in Munich and passed the 2nd state examination there in 1968. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

Act

Strube joined BASF's finance department in 1969. After working in Belgium, Germany and Brazil, he was appointed to the Management Board in 1985 , initially based in New Jersey , and from 1988 in Ludwigshafen . Two years later he was named chairman of the board. After leaving the Board of Management in 2003, Strube was elected to the BASF Supervisory Board , which he chaired until the end of April 2009. Since then he has been honorary chairman of the body. From July 2003 to June 2005 he was President of UNICE, the umbrella organization of European industry and employers' associations in Brussels (today: BusinessEurope ). Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Fuchs Petrolub in Mannheim as well as a member of the supervisory board of the Bertelsmann group and a member of the advisory board of the Bertelsmann Foundation .

With his diverse socio-political commitment, Strube has also given significant impetus for business, politics and culture beyond BASF. He was a member of the Presidium of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) and its President from 1996 to 1997. He was a founding member of the "Initiative for Employment", the TABD (Transatlantic Business Dialogue), the MEBF (Mercosur Europe Business Forum) , the Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck initiative, now the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region , the ZIRP (Rhineland-Palatinate Future Initiative ) and member of the board of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 90 years, 90 heads. In: A series of portraits for the 90th anniversary of the German National Academic Foundation. December 1, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  2. Professor Dr. Jürgen Strube was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )