Norbert Reithofer

Reithofer (left) with Mark Rutte

Reithofer (center) with US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (left) 2013

Norbert Reithofer (born May 29, 1956 in Penzberg ) is a German manager and has been CEO of BMW AG since September 1, 2006 as the successor to Helmut Panke . The previous Board Member for Production, Harald Krüger , became Reithofer's successor at the Annual General Meeting of BMW AG on May 13, 2015. Reithofer now chairs the BMW supervisory board (previously Joachim Milberg ).

Life

After graduating from high school , Reithofer studied mechanical engineering at the Munich University of Applied Sciences from 1974 to 1977 and then moved to the Technical University of Munich to study production engineering and business administration. After graduating as a graduate engineer, he worked from 1984 to 1987 as a research assistant with Joachim Milberg at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management ( iwb ) at the Technical University of Munich, where he completed his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. from.

In 1987, Reithofer moved to the BMW Group as Head of Maintenance . Later he was head of the main “Body-in-White” department and then Technical Director of BMW South Africa in Rosslyn in the Gauteng province . From 1997 to 2000 he was President of the US BMW US Manufacturing Company in Greer , South Carolina . In March 2000 he became a member of the board (for production); in August 2006 he became CEO. On May 13, 2015, he moved from the executive board to the BMW supervisory board and was elected chairman on the same day. Reithofer has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG since January 27, 2015 .

He is a member of the University Council of the Technical University of Munich .

Awards

• In 2005 he received the Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (corresponds to a Commander's Cross, 1st class ).
• In July 2010 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit by the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer .
• In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
• In the same year, Manager Magazin named him Manager of the Year .
• In 2012 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French Ambassador to Germany Maurice Gourdault-Montagne .
• 2016 he received from the hands of the Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Söder , the financial Medal of the Bavarian Ministry of Finance .

Web links

Commons : Norbert Reithofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• BMW History - Board of Management ( Memento from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Interview , Focus , May 9, 2011

Footnotes

1. ↑ www.bmwgroup.com: BMW Group initiates generation change in the chairmanship of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board
2. ↑ FAZ: Reithofer becomes the new BMW boss , accessed on the same day
3. ↑ spiegel.de: Change in leadership: BMW boss Norbert Reithofer abdicates early
4. ↑ portal.mytum.de: Portrait Reithofer
5. ↑ Publication of his biography as a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG since January 27, 2015
6. ↑ Federal Minister Bartenstein presents prestigious awards to BMW top managers. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth, June 29, 2005, archived from the original on September 30, 2011 ; Retrieved July 31, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
8. ↑ Order of Merit for Merited Bavaria . In: Mainpost , July 29, 2010, accessed July 30, 2010
9. ↑ Article: Off, Reithofer and Pörnbacher excellent, In: Weilheimer Tagblatt from Friday, July 30, 2010, local section page 6
10. ↑ Honorary doctorate from TUM for Dr.-Ing. Norbert Reithofer. In: press release. Technical University of Munich, July 5, 2011, accessed on July 23, 2011 . 
11. ↑ Michael Freitag: BMW boss - Reithofer is "Manager of the Year". manager magazin online, November 16, 2011, accessed November 19, 2011 . 
12. ^ BMW boss Norbert Reithofer Knight of the Legion of Honor. French Embassy, ​​March 30, 2012, accessed January 3, 2019 . 
13. ↑ SÖDER: HONOR FOR MERIT FOR THE BAVARIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM. Financial medal for Angelika Diekmann, Manfred Nüssel, Norbert Reithofer, Wolfgang Reitzle, Margot and Günter Steinberg. (No longer available online.) In: Press release No. 020. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, for Regional Development and Homeland, January 18, 2016, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved March 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.