Kurt Werner (entrepreneur)

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Kurt Werner (born September 21, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 24, 2005 in Darmstadt ) was a German entrepreneur in the printing machine industry.

Life

Kurt Werner was the son of the businessman Carl Werner (1890–1948), a wholesale merchant in Frankfurt / M., And Mathilde Werner geb. Koehler (1884-1949). Kurt Werner's mother was the sister of the Darmstadt entrepreneur Wilhelm Köhler . Kurt Werner passed his Abitur at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt . He then studied economics and political science in Frankfurt and Heidelberg. There he obtained his doctorate in 1947. rer. pole. of economics and social sciences.

After completing his doctorate, he started in the auditing department of HEAG AG in Darmstadt, before moving to the Goebel printing machine factory founded in 1851, which was headed by his uncle and foster father (Werner grew up fatherless) Wilhelm Köhler since 1928. At Goebel he performed different functions. In 1957 he was a member of the management team and was appointed deputy managing director in 1958. In 1963 Werner was appointed the full managing director of Goebel GmbH and from 1970 he took over the chairmanship of the management. He held this position until he reached the age of 65 in 1990. He then assumed the function of chairing the general meeting and the supervisory board. As early as 1958, he was chosen by the Printing and Paper Machinery Association in the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions. V. (VDMA) as its chairman. From 1967 he was on the board of the VDMA; In 1968 he became its vice-president. From 1970 to 1974 Kurt Werner was President of the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce. After that he was President of the VDMA until 1977. From 1984 to 1995 he was chairman of the Foreign Trade Council at the Federal Ministry of Economics. Dr. Werner was the recipient of the Friedrich Koenig Medal of the Druckmaschinen research company founded in 1955 (based in Frankfurt am Main), which is part of the VDMA. From 1972 to 1990 he was honorary president of drupa , the world's largest trade fair for this branch of industry.

Dr. Kurt Werner active as chairman of the board of the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Darmstadt (1981–1995) and as a member of the board of trustees of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt (from 1975). Werner was an honorary member of the Association of German Printing Engineers .

Kurt Werner was born with Lilo Werner Zander, daughter of the businessman Paul Herbert Zander from Wiesbaden, married. The marriage remained childless. The couple's fortune was transferred to the Kurt and Lilo-Werner RC Darmstadt Foundation.

Honors

  • 1974: Johann Heinrich Merck honor of the city of Darmstadt.
  • 1974: Awarded the Friedrich Koenig Medal by the Forschungsgesellschaft Druckmaschinen eV
  • 1975: Federal Cross of Merit at the level of the First Class Cross of Merit
  • 1979: The mechanical engineering department of the TH Darmstadt awards him the Dr. Ing. E. H.
  • 1981: Federal Cross of Merit at the level of the Great Cross of Merit
  • 1985: Knight of the Legion of Honor of the Republic of France
  • 1987: Honorary member of the Association of Pulp and Paper Chemists and Engineers
  • 1988: Rudolf Ullstein Prize of the German Printing Industry
  • 1989: Federal Cross of Merit at the level of the Grand Cross of Merit with a star
  • Silver Medal of Merit of the City of Darmstadt
  • Bernhard Weiss badge of the VDMA

literature

  • Ulrich Eisenbach (Ed.), From the beginnings of industrialization to the engineering region. 150 years IHK Darmstadt. Rhein Main Neckar, Darmstadt 2012.
  • Lupold von Lehsten, Dr. Kurt Werner (1925-2005), in: HFK, 28, 2005, Sp. 132-133.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on January 24, 1990 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1990 No. 7 , p. 262 , point 150 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2005
Place of death Darmstadt