Thomas Diehl

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Thomas Diehl (born March 1, 1951 in Buenos Aires ; † April 16, 2017 ) was a German entrepreneur and manager . He was chairman of the board of the family business Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG and the youngest grandson of the company's founder Heinrich Diehl.

Life

Thomas Diehl was born in 1951 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires as the youngest son of Karl Diehl and his wife Irmgard (née Schoedel), after his brothers Werner and Peter . After internships at General Motors and Siemens , both in Argentina, Diehl decided on a technical course of study and completed his studies in industrial engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering.

At the request of his father, he joined the family company after graduating in 1976, and worked for the then Diehl subsidiary Junghans Uhren in Schramberg for the next four years . During his time at Junghans, among other things, he succeeded in entering radio clock technology, which would later lead the company back to the top of European watch manufacturers.

In 1981 he returned to the Nuremberg headquarters. From there he founded subsidiaries in the United States and Singapore and managed them from Nuremberg. In 1983 he moved to the then ammunition division, where he was in charge of research and development. In 1988 he was appointed to the company's management, where he was responsible for the technology department. In 1993 he took over the operational management of Diehl GmbH & Co. KG as chairman of the management. After the company was renamed the Diehl Foundation at the beginning of 1998, he headed the group as chairman of the board.

Diehl was also active in business and social policy. As chairman of the supervisory board of the Landesgewerbeanstalt Bayern, he was in charge of the takeover of LGA by TÜV Rheinland , thus preserving and securing the institution in the larger economic network. He was a member of the industrial advisory board in the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics and Media, Energy and Technology , a member of the university council of the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences and chairman of the Bavarian Laser Center in Erlangen .

Diehl died surprisingly on April 16, 2017 at the age of 66.

He left behind a daughter and two sons, Stephanie, Thomas Jr. and Markus.

Awards

In 1997 Diehl received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, an honorary doctorate in 1999 from the Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and in 2005 the Bavarian Order of Merit . In 2009 he was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Diehl mourns the CEO. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . Schwäbischer Verlag , April 18, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2017