Markus Rauh

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Markus Rauh (born September 23, 1939 in St. Gallen ; † September 13, 2019 ) was a Swiss manager .

Life

Markus Rauh grew up in St. Gallen in the Heiligkreuz district . He attended primary and secondary schools in St. Gallen. He interrupted his education at the Cantonal School at Burggraben to spend a year at a high school in the USA. That is why he had the vulgo Yankee in the student union rhetoric . After passing the Matura, he studied mechanical engineering at the ETH Zurich , which he graduated in 1964 as a graduate engineer. After working as an assistant to Peter Grassmann, he received his doctorate in technical sciences in 1971 with a thesis entitled The optimal dimensions of electrical supply lines for low-temperature systems .

After graduating, he worked for the computer company Sperry Univac in Zurich for six years . In 1978 he became head of the Data Systems department at Philips AG in Zurich. In 1982 he moved to Germany to head the Philips Data Systems division at Philips Kommunikation Industrie AG , Nuremberg (PKI). From April 1986 he was chairman of the board of PKI AG and at the same time member of the board of the Allgemeine Deutsche Philips Industrie GmbH, Hamburg (ALLDEPHI; later Philips GmbH). For his career, especially his work as CEO of are Leica Group , based in St. Gallen to 1998, consisting of the company Wild Heerbrugg with Stephan Schmidheiny had emerged as a major shareholder and the Chairman position at Swisscom 1998-2006 known. When he began his role at Swisscom , it went public as a partial privatization in October 1998. Participations in foreign telecommunications companies also fell during his time, the majority of which did not bring the desired success. The takeover of the Irish telecommunications company Eircom plc, which was planned in 2005, as well as a comprehensive privatization of Swisscom failed due to resistance from the majority owner, the Swiss Confederation .

Rauh lived in Mörschwil , was married and had two sons and a daughter.

further activities

  • Board member of the St. Galler Kantonalbank from 2000–2007
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AO Foundation in Chur
  • Vice President of the Board of Directors of Unaxis ( called OC Oerlikon since 2006 )
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Concert and Theater Cooperative , City of St. Gallen, from 2000–2009
  • President of the Board of Trustees for Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen
  • Member of the Law and Economics Foundation , St. Gallen
  • Board member of Madison Private Equity Holding
  • Supporter of Pioneer Fellowships of the ETH Foundation
  • 1999 Founder and then Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Swiss foundation Die Chance
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Sitterwerk Foundation in St. Gallen

Awards

  • 2005 Honorary Senator of the University of St. Gallen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Dr. Markus Rauh. NZZ, September 17, 2019, accessed on September 19
  2. ↑ The optimal dimensions of electrical supply lines for cryogenic systems. ETH Zurich, dissertation, 151 pp.
  3. ↑ Fritz Staudacher: Spanned - From the formation and destruction of the Leica Group to Hexagon . In: Franz Betschon et al. (Ed.): Engineers build Switzerland - first-hand history of technology , pp. 291–300, Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishing house, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03823-791-4
  4. ^ Ex-Swisscom President Markus Rauh has died. Tagesanzeiger, September 17, 2019, accessed on September 19, 2019
  5. ↑ Peter J. Wild: Swisscom a blue chip ? International activity. banco.ch, le magazine suisse de l'asset management, winter 1998
  6. ^ Procedure of the SFBC against ex-Swisscom President Markus Rauh. Parliamentary Services (CH), accessed on 19 September 2019
  7. ^ Markus Rauh. aofoundation.org, accessed September 19, 2019
  8. ↑ New boards of directors. (Engl.) swissinfo.ch, April 4, 2002. Retrieved on September 19, 2019
  9. ↑ Rotary club contributes to apprenticeships. Tagblatt, March 16, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2019
  10. ↑ The honorary doctors and the new honorary senator at the Dies academicus 2005. alumni unisg.ch, 3/2005. accessed on September 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rauh, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH 13th September 2019