Peter Dietrich (entrepreneur)

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Peter Dietrich (born April 8, 1938 in Wilthen , Oberlausitz ; † June 18, 2017 in Wewelsfleth , Steinburg district ) was a German civil engineer. He became known in the Hamburg port industry.

Life

Dietrich attended elementary and high school in Wilthen and Bautzen from 1944 to 1955 . As a 17-year-old, he was hired on the MS Allobrogia of the Geneva shipping company Transports Maritimes Suisse-Outremer SA in the port of London . On four voyages in 1955/56 he came to ports in Europe and Asia. For the second time and finally he left the German Democratic Republic in 1957 after graduating from Bischofswerda . After he had passed the "West Abitur" in Heidelberg, he studied civil engineering at the TH Stuttgart from 1958–1962 . 1962/63 and 1965 he studied at the University of Ibadan and the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research Economics . Enrolled at the Technical University of Berlin since 1964 , he graduated there in 1967 as a graduate engineer . During his student days he was chairman of the general student committee , chairman of the international committee of the Association of German Student Associations , member of the Research and Information Commission of the International Union of Students .

job

As an industrial engineer specializing in civil engineering, he joined Coutinho, Caro & Co., a Hamburg-based company for plant engineering and machine exports in 1967 . During the Biafra war he was sent to Nigeria to rescue German families from the war zone. 1968–1972 he was the sole managing director of Coutinho, Caro & Co (Italia) SpA in Milan. When he became an authorized signatory at the parent company Coutinho, Caro & Co in Hamburg in 1973 , he bought the old ferry house in Wewelsfleth . 1974–1977 he was a managing partner of Planco Consulting GmbH / AG in Hamburg and London. In 1976 he founded Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH, of which he was the sole managing director until 1985. He made this subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik a leading company in port consulting with more than 100 employees today. Supported by Helmuth Kern , he moved to the HHLA Executive Board in 1985. He was initially responsible for operations and technology, from 1987 also for marketing and sales. After a year as deputy chairman of the board, he became head of HHLA in 1991. He built the highly automated Altenwerder container terminal and won Hapag-Lloyd as a strategic partner. Under Dietrich's leadership, HHLA invested in railway companies such as Polzug and Metrans . This promoted container transport to Eastern Europe and laid the foundation for the intermodal transport business . After 12 years on the HHLA Executive Board, he retired in 2003.

Supervisory boards

He sat on many supervisory boards , after the German reunification in the Saxon inland ports Oberelbe GmbH and the crane construction Eberswalde , which had emerged from the TAKRAF (combine) . He was chairman of employers' associations in the German and European seaport industry . 1995–1998 he was the founding and sole managing director of the Gesellschaft für Hafen- und Standortentwicklung mbH (GHS, now Hafencity GmbH). Its sole purpose was the covert purchase of port areas in Hamburg-Altenwerder .

Honorary positions

After the so-called turnaround , he became involved in the construction company Gebrüder Dietrich GmbH & Co. KG in Seitschen and in the Landhotel Erbgericht in Tautewalde . As a partner, he took care of the renovation and expansion of the hotel. He was a sponsor of the museum ship Cap San Diego and chairman of the Hamburg Admiralty Foundation . Since 1960 a member of the SPD Hamburg , he was from 1974-1976 district chairman in Hamburg Barmbek-Uhlenhorst-Hohenfeld. Before the 2004 state elections in Hamburg , he gave Thomas Mirow the promise to take over responsibility for the Senate if the SPD were successful . With Marion Dönhoff friends, he was CEO and chairman of the Marion Dönhoff Foundation . On January 31, 1992, he won over Mayor Henning Voscherau for the construction of HafenCity . Past Egbert Kossak , the plans with Volkwin Marg were kept secret for five years. Dietrich saw his greatest life achievement in the realization of this project of the century. At the funeral service on June 23, 2017 in Wewelsfleth, Thomas Mirow gave the first funeral speech. He was buried on June 26, 2017 in the Wilthen family grave.

"With Peter Dietrich, Hamburg is losing an entrepreneurial personality to whom the city and port owe a lot."

- Olaf Scholz

Private

Grave in Wilthen

Dietrich loved riding a motorcycle. He was married to the sociologist Mechthild born in 1965. Aschoff (1940-2009). The marriage has two children. The family also includes two daughters of the father and two adopted foster children who had escaped the Cambodian civil war .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice in the Sächsische Zeitung
  2. ↑ TMSO (swiss-ships.ch)
  3. ↑ Former HHLA boss Peter Dietrich dies (welt.de)
  4. ↑ HHLA mourns Peter Dietrich (HHLA)
  5. ↑ HafenCity - the genesis of an idea (hafencity.com)
  6. ↑ a b Gert Kähler , Volkwin Marg: secret project HafenCity or how to invent a new district . Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Munich Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-86218-092-9 .
  7. ↑ District Chairwoman (spd-buh.de)
  8. ↑ Mayor Stolten Medal for Peter Dietrich (hamburg.de)
  9. ↑ Focus , June 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Peter Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German port logistics company
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilthen , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH 18th June 2017
Place of death Wewelsfleth , Steinburg district