Klaus Piltz

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Klaus Piltz (born October 16, 1935 in Stuttgart ; † April 12, 1993 in Ötztal ) was a German industrial manager and CEO of VEBA AG.

Life

Grave site of the Piltz / Rumler family with a sculpture by Michael Irmer

Klaus Piltz studied economics in Munich, Paris and Cologne from 1955 to 1962. Even before graduating, he joined VEBA AG in 1961, which was then still fully federally owned. General manager since 1972 , in 1975 Piltz took over the board department for finance, accounting and reporting. In this role he played a major role in the restructuring of the former state-owned company, which has since been partially privatized, under the leadership of Rudolf von Bennigsen-Foerder . After his sudden death, Piltz was appointed CEO of VEBA himself in early November 1989.

Under his leadership, the group was reorganized and further streamlined in 1991, including the sale of the recently acquired stake in Feldmühle Nobel AG.

Like his predecessor Bennigsen-Foerder, Piltz also pursued a course of understanding with the critics on the question of the use of nuclear energy . So at the end of 1992, together with the then RWE boss Friedhelm Gieske, in a letter to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, he campaigned for a new energy consensus.

On Easter Monday 1993, the enthusiastic mountain hiker Piltz had a fatal accident in an avalanche accident in Tyrol during a ski hike with two of his children and a friend of the children. The grave is located in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf . His successor at VEBA was the previous CFO Ulrich Hartmann .

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SURNAME Piltz, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1993
Place of death Ötztal