Martin Posth

Martin Posth (born January 16, 1944 in Berge (Nauen) ; † September 17, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German industrial manager .

Life

In 1954 he left the GDR with his family. Growing up in Berlin-Spandau , he studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen and at the Free University of Berlin , where he received his Dr. jur. received his doctorate.

Act

In 1972 Posth began his career in the automotive industry at Audi NSU . In 1980 he was appointed to the Board of Management of Audi AG . From 1984 to 1988 Posth built the largest automobile plant in China for Volkswagen AG . He then became head of human resources . From 1993 to 1997 he headed the Asia region of the VW Group from Hong Kong. In 1998 he left the VW board. From 2000 to 2006 he was President of the Asia-Pacific Forum Berlin.

Prizes and awards

1981: Golden Bridge
1993: Honorary citizenship of the city of Shanghai .

Varia

Posth became known to art historians and those interested in Islamic art as a collector of Anatolian knotted carpets and kilims when he published his monograph Collected Beauty in 2014 . From October 22 to December 3, 2016, parts of the collection were exhibited in the Bumiller Collection studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Publications

Problems under labor law when changing business owners: (§ 613 a BGB), Cologne: Hanstein-Verlag, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7756-5300-8
As co-author: Personnel Management in Times of Change, Cologne: Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 978-3-602-24841-4
1000 days in Shanghai . The adventurous founding of the first Sino-German automobile factory. Hanser, Munich 2006. , ISBN 978-0-470-82388-0
Martin Posth: Collected beauty: carpets and kilims from Anatolia = Collected beauty . Self-published, o. O. 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044526-2 ( d-nb.info ).
Martin Posth: Woven Paradise / Gewebtes Paradies - a foray into the Anatolian textile art of the 18th and 19th centuries . Ed .: Georg Butterweck. Self-published, o. O. 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053301-3 .

Web links

Short biography and reviews of works by Martin Posth at perlentaucher.de
Martin Posth on Who's Who
Literature by and about Martin Posth in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Evangelical Academy Loccum: Guest: Martin Posth. Forum Loccum No. 4 / November 2007, accessed on September 25, 2017.
^ Advertisement by Martin Posth | Tagesspiegel mourning. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
↑ Volkswagen's China pioneer Martin Posth is dead. Braunschweiger-zeitung.de, accessed on September 28, 2017.
↑ Martin Posth: Collected beauty: carpets and kilims from Anatolia = Collected beauty . Self-published, o. O. 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044526-2 ( d-nb.info ).
^ Martin Posth: Woven Paradise = Gewebtes Paradies - a foray through the Anatolian textile art of the 18th and 19th centuries . Ed .: Georg Butterweck. Self-published by Martin Posth, o. O. 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053301-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Posth, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH	January 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mountains (nauen)
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 2017
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Evangelical Academy Loccum: Guest: Martin Posth. Forum Loccum No. 4 / November 2007, accessed on September 25, 2017.

[2] Advertisement by Martin Posth | Tagesspiegel mourning. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.

[3] Volkswagen's China pioneer Martin Posth is dead. Braunschweiger-zeitung.de, accessed on September 28, 2017.

[4] Martin Posth: Collected beauty: carpets and kilims from Anatolia = Collected beauty . Self-published, o. O. 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044526-2 ( d-nb.info ).

[5] Martin Posth: Woven Paradise = Gewebtes Paradies - a foray through the Anatolian textile art of the 18th and 19th centuries . Ed .: Georg Butterweck. Self-published by Martin Posth, o. O. 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053301-3 .