Karlheinz Kaske

Karlheinz Kaske (born April 19, 1928 in Essen , † September 27, 1998 in Berg / Starnberger See) was a German physicist and manager, most recently CEO of Siemens AG .

Life

Kaske grew up in Königsberg , East Prussia, from 1934 to 1937 and attended elementary school there. From 1937 to 1943 the family lived in Cologne , 1943/44 in Gdansk , where he graduated from high school in St. Petri and Paul in 1944. He studied from the summer semester 1944 at the University of Danzig , from the summer 1946 physics at the RWTH Aachen . He received his doctorate in 1955 from the TH Braunschweig . After working as a development engineer at Siemens & Halske Wernerwerke in Karlsruhe (1950 to 1953), he was a lecturer in electrical engineering and electrical measurement technology at the Bergakademie in Aachen. He returned to Siemens in Karlsruhe as head of the power plant automation sales area. In 1967 he was a visiting researcher at Fuji Denki Electric in Tokyo . He then worked in the planning department of Siemens AG and was involved in the planning that led to the merger of the independent Siemens companies into Siemens AG. He headed the Nuremberg meter factory until 1973 and then in the measurement and process technology division and the main area of joint technical tasks . In 1975 he was appointed to the Siemens executive board and from 1977 he headed the energy technology division . On January 28, 1981, Kaske was appointed CEO of Siemens AG. He held this position until September 30, 1992.

As a part-time job, he was initially a lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and in 1994 he was appointed honorary professor .

Under the CEO Kaske, the technological change from electromechanics to electronics as well as international business were promoted within Siemens . Furthermore, under his aegis, the operating units were given more responsibility.

literature

• Shaping the future. The Siemens entrepreneurs 1847–2018. Published by the Siemens Historical Institute, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86774-602-1 .
• Karlheinz Kaske. In: Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Eberhard Posner: The Siemens entrepreneurs. Continuity and change 1847–2005. Ten portraits. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-04801-3 , pp. 176-189.
• Daniela Decurtins : Siemens. Anatomy of a company . Redline Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-8323-0910-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karlheinz Kaske in the catalog of the German National Library
• CEO Siemens AG

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karlheinz Kaske: A new, objective, automatically registering color pyrometer and its application for monitoring the temperature of the melt in the blowing converter. Dissertation, Braunschweig 1956, curriculum vitae, p. 97.