Olaf Drescher

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Olaf Drescher (born November 17, 1959 in Dresden ) is a German railway engineer.

He was the project manager of the upgraded Berlin – Hamburg line and the German Unity Transport Project No. 8 . Since February 1, 2018, he has been the technical managing director of DB Project Stuttgart – Ulm and therefore responsible for the Stuttgart 21 railway projects and the new Wendlingen – Ulm line . Since July 1, 2020, he has been the company's CEO.

Career

Education and early career

Drescher initially graduated from school with a secondary school leaving certificate. He began his professional life in 1976 as an electrical signal mechanic apprentice at the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Dresden. He completed his apprenticeship in July 1978.

He then studied traffic safety technology at the engineering school for traffic technology . From 1990 he studied information technology at the University of Transport . He studied railway safety technology and information technology and graduated with a degree in information technology.

Drescher worked from July 1983 to June 1990 as an employee for cooperation, imports and safety technology at the Deutsche Reichsbahn. From July 1990 to December 1993 he was a research assistant, department head for control and safety technology in the main administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and product manager for assembly.

From January 1994 to June 1998 he was employed in the railway construction division of Deutsche Bahn , initially as head of the signal, telecommunications and electrical engineering department. From July 1997 to May 2000 he was a member of the division management, branch manager, project manager for track and system renovation.

Project manager for large projects

As an employee of the planning company Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit, he was responsible for the upgraded line from Berlin to Hamburg: initially, from May 2000 to December 2002, as project manager, from 2003 to May 2005 as technical project manager. He was responsible for 60 employees. From April 2005 to June 2007 he was Head of Technology and Spokesman for the Southeast branch in Leipzig.

As the overall project manager of the VDE 8 project, from July 2007 to January 2018, he was most recently responsible for 250 technicians and 60 salespeople at three locations. After the core of the project went into operation in December 2017, he was to oversee the further expansion (including the Bamberg area). According to other information, he should lead the widespread introduction of ETCS in Germany.

Managing Director of DB Projekt Stuttgart – Ulm GmbH

After making a quick decision at the end of 2017, Drescher has been a member of the management of DB Projekt Stuttgart-Ulm GmbH since the beginning of February 2018 . He takes on the role of chief technology officer and is deputy to the chairman of the board, Manfred Leger . While Drescher has been responsible for technical project management, project control, central construction logistics and technical system integration since then, Leger is responsible for quality assurance and communication / press. Formally (entry in the commercial register ), the appointment as managing director was made on April 16, 2018.

Olaf Drescher is the second technical managing director of the company founded in 2013, after Stefan Penn , who was dismissed on January 1, 2015 .

On July 1, 2020, he took over the chairmanship of the management from Manfred Leger. He became the sixth head of the Stuttgart 21 project. He is responsible for the areas of shell construction and rail technology as well as the Stuttgart digital node .

Others

Drescher is the father of two children. In August 2018 he and his family moved into a house in Stuttgart.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Sylvia Gerlichs: No chance for ICE stop in Wendlingen . In: Nürtinger Zeitung . March 31, 2018, p. 18 (paid online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d Christian Milankovic: “The processes must be shortened” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 74 , February 15, 2018, p. 22 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b c "Every project is unique" . In: Bahnprojekt Stuttgart – Ulm e. V. (Ed.): Reference . No. 22 , March 2018, ZDB -ID 2663557-4 , p. 4–7 ( bahnprojekt-stuttgart-ulm.de [PDF]).
  4. ↑ a b c Alexander Schierholz: The route is his baby . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . December 8, 2017, p. 6 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g CV Olaf Drescher. (PDF) Stuttgart-Ulm rail project, 2020, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Olaf Drescher, Jochen Engelhardt, Kurt Beulich: Signal technology for the use of the InterCityExpress . In: Electric Railways . tape 91 , no. 6 , 1993, ISSN  0013-5437 , pp. 158-162 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Steeger: Olaf Drescher was in charge of the expansion of the Hamburg-Berlin express route: “For me, the skeptics were an incentive” . In: project management . No. 2 , 2005, ISSN  0942-1017 , p. 57 f .
  8. ↑ "I had a few sleepless nights" . In: Nürnberger Zeitung . December 8, 2017, p. 3 .
  9. ↑ Berlin-Munich in four hours: Why it is a miracle that the new turbo route for Deutsche Bahn has been completed. In: stern.de. December 9, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  10. ^ Bahn reorganizes the S-21 line . Stuttgarter Zeitung, December 18, 2017
  11. ^ Supplement to the Central Trade Register . In: Bundesanzeiger : Commercial register announcements . April 2018.
  12. ↑ On course for commissioning. Change of staff in the Stuttgart – Ulm rail project. In: bahnprojekt-stuttgart-ulm.de. Deutsche Bahn, June 15, 2020, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b Jörg Hamann: On course for commissioning: In 2022 rail will start train traffic on the new Wendlingen – Ulm line. (PDF) In: bahnprojekt-stuttgart-ulm.de. DB Project Stuttgart – Ulm, July 15, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Christian Milankovic: The sixth boss should complete S 21 . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 75 , no. 135 , June 15, 2020, p. 3 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Drescher, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden