Karl-Josef Neukirchen

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Karl-Josef (Kajo) Neukirchen (born March 17, 1942 in Bonn ) is a German manager .

After attending elementary and commercial school, Neukirchen first completed a commercial training course before he obtained his university entrance qualification on a second educational path and studied physics and economics in Bonn from 1964 . In 1973 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. After working as an assistant in industrial companies in the Rhineland, he was appointed to the management of SKF in Schweinfurt, which he became chairman shortly afterwards. In 1987 he was appointed CEO of the then loss-making Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD, now Deutz AG, Cologne). He succeeded in turning the company around with a profound restructuring.

The Deutsche Bank, especially the then board member Ronaldo Schmitz , later appointed Neukirchen as crisis manager for troubled companies. So in 1991 as CEO at Hoesch AG until the merger with Krupp and in 1993 at Metallgesellschaft (MG). His contract as CEO was not extended in 2002 at the instigation of the largest single shareholder Otto Happel .

He is currently a partner in Kajo Neukirchen GmbH (specializing in the acquisition of medium-sized family businesses and corporate spin -offs), board member of the Ingrid-zu-Solms-Stiftung (foundation for the promotion of female intellectual elites) and board member of the German Lung Foundation (foundation to improve the situation of patients with lung diseases).