Klaus Wucherer

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Klaus Wucherer (born July 9, 1944 in Quakenbrück ) is a German engineer and manager. Until autumn 2007 he was a member of the central board of Siemens AG .

Life

After studying electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, Wucherer received his doctorate in precisely those engineering disciplines. In 1970 he started working for Siemens in Bremen . After a few intermediate positions, in 1983 he became head of the technical department, systems sales at Siemens SA in São Paulo , Brazil . In 1986 he took over the management of several Siemens branches in Erlangen and Nuremberg. There he and his team developed a new type of NC control that represented a technological leap in control technology. In 1996 Wucherer became a member of the automation technology division in Nuremberg, in 1999 a member of the board of Siemens AG and in 2000 a member of the central board of Siemens AG. There he was responsible for the main areas of Automation and Drives (A&D), Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) and Siemens Transportation Systems (TS). Wucherer resigned from the Siemens central board in the fall of 2007 / spring 2008 in connection with the Siemens corruption affair and agreed in August 2009 to pay Siemens € 500,000 in damages.

From February 2010 to February 2011 he was Chairman of the Board of the chip manufacturer Infineon . He had been a member of the committee since 1999; the choice was controversial because of the Siemens affair.

Furthermore, he was or is a member of the following supervisory boards:

  • Festo AG & Co. KG , Esslingen (automation technology), from 2012
  • SAP AG , Walldorf (software group), from 2007
  • Leoni AG , Nuremberg (cable manufacturer)
  • HEITEC AG, Erlangen (system provider for industrial solutions)
  • Dürr AG , Bietigheim-Bissingen (automotive supplier)
  • Deutsche Messe AG , Hanover (trade fair company), 2001 to 2008

Honorary positions

Awards

Fonts

  • Contribution to the design of open industrial automation systems , dissertation, Chemnitz 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita at Siemens.de ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Markus Balser: Management chaos at Infineon: Kopfloser Chipkonzern ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), in: Süddeutsche Online from May 18, 2008, accessed on October 23, 2009
  3. ↑ Markus Balser: Former board members ready for comparison ( memento from October 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), in: Süddeutsche Online from August 28, 2009, accessed on October 23, 2009
  4. ↑ a b Despite the Siemens scandal: Klaus Wucherer becomes head of the Infineon Supervisory Board , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online on October 27, 2009, accessed on October 31, 2009
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Eh Klaus Wucherer | Supervisory Board | About SAP SE. In: SAP. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016 ; Retrieved October 26, 2016 .
  6. ^ VDE presidency
  7. ↑ University Council of the University of Erlangen ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), own presentation on the website, accessed on October 23, 2009
  8. ↑ VDE executive committee member Klaus Wucherer elected the new IEC president , press release Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) of October 22, 2009, accessed on October 23, 2009
  9. ↑ [1]
  10. ↑ http://www.dlv-xml.de/Storage/EventFiles/14L00001805102/697.pdf
  11. ↑ Honorary doctorate to Prof. Klaus Wucherer , press release from February 25, 2004, accessed on October 23, 2009
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Saxon Order of Merit awarded , MDR online from May 31, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de


personal data
SURNAME Usurer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück