Roland Heinisch

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Roland Heinisch (born August 29, 1942 in Göppingen ) was a member of the board of Deutsche Bahn AG .

On reaching the age of 65, Heinisch left the company on August 31, 2007. With him, the last trained railway worker left the corporate board.

biography

After high school and military service , Heinisch studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover from 1965 to 1970, where he graduated as a qualified engineer.

According to his own statements, he had more than 20 offers as a production engineer in 1970, but the railways fascinated him most. Even his father was a railway engineer and worked as an assistant in the wagon construction department of the Federal Railway Central Office in Minden . After the clerkship Roland Heinisch headed the depot wages, then he was group leader in the Laboratory of Munich. In 1975 he moved to the head office of what was then the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

In 1980 he was appointed Head of Strategy, then Head of Marketing / Performance Planning for Freight Transport. In 1991 he was appointed deputy director for corporate development and in 1992 as director of technology at the Federal and State Railways. In 1994 he became board member for freight transport and in 1996 board member for traction , where he was also responsible for magnetic levitation trains .

From 1991 he headed the newly established strategy group Bahn 21 , which was to bring the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Bundesbahn together in the technical field and make them fit for the future. In this function, he played a key role in preparing the rail reform by developing a concept for the planned DB AG.

In 1992 he submitted the draft resolution for the introduction of the rubber-sprung ICE bikes (despite a lack of long-term experience) in order to increase travel comfort and counteract commercial losses. On June 3, 1998, the ICE 884 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen had an accident due to the breakage of a rubber-sprung wheel in the ICE accident in Eschede . As a result, the tried and tested monobloc wheels were reintroduced.

After various other management board positions, Heinisch took over the chairmanship of DB Netz AG on September 1, 2000. As part of a new corporate structure that came into effect on March 17, 2005, Heinisch was reappointed a member of the corporate board for the newly created board division “Systemverbund Bahn”. The functions of technology and procurement , environmental protection , quality management and the representation of the group in international committees have been combined in this new department . At the same time, he remained CEO of DB Netz.

Until he reached the age limit of 65 in August 2007, he was to lead DB Netz AG as CEO. Ultimately, he was CEO of DB Netz AG until March 2006. He was succeeded in this role by Volker Kefer . From April 2005, he was responsible for the rail system network on the Deutsche Bahn AG Group Board . For a time he was chairman of the UIC Infrastructure Forum .

Heinisch left the company when his contract expired at the end of August 2007.

He describes the fact that he did not succeed in introducing the automatic central buffer coupling as his greatest personal disappointment . In 1974 the then Federal Railways and the SNCF started testing the automatic coupling. DB had already invested around 2.5 billion Deutschmarks when the SNCF canceled the project in the early 1980s.

For his great services to German and Europe-wide railway system technology, to the promotion of international high-speed traffic and his committed commitment to the International Union of Railways (UIC) , the German Machine Technology Society awarded him the Beuth Medal of Honor on November 7, 2008. In early 2010 he was awarded the European Railway Award in the technology category.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j A veteran is leaving Deutsche Bahn . In: DB Welt , July / August 2007 edition, p. 15.
  2. ^ Announcement New board member for DB Netz . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 8–9 / 2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 340.
  3. ^ Announcement New DB Group Structure . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2005, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 206.
  4. ↑ Message Malmström has to go . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 2/2005, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 50.
  5. ^ Message from Volker Kefer to DB Netz . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 3/2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 106.
  6. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG: DB Supervisory Board extends contract for Mehdorn until 2011 . Press release from June 27, 2007.
  7. ↑ Awarded the Beuth Medal of Honor 2008 .
  8. ↑ Deutsche Bahn AG: Ex-DB board member Heinisch honored at European level . Press release from February 3, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Heinisch, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, board member of Deutsche Bahn AG
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen