Walter Raizner
Walter Raizner (born August 15, 1954 in Aalen ) is a German manager .
Life
Raizner graduated from the Main-Taunus-Gymnasium in Hofheim am Taunus in 1974 and studied economics and IT in Nuremberg / Erlangen from 1977 to 1983 . After completing his studies, he worked briefly for Hoechst and then for Nixdorf , before joining IBM Germany in 1984 . From 1989 to 1991 he was assistant to the sales manager at IBM Germany. His work for the IBM group in the 90s was characterized by stays abroad and various tasks in sales , marketing and general management. Raizner went to the USA in 1995 and returned to Germany a year later as head of hardware sales at IBM. This was followed by two foreign stations, Great Britain and the USA. The manager spends a total of six years in America. Raizner was most recently responsible for IBM's global storage business before replacing Erwin Staudt at the head of IBM Germany in early 2003 . From November 1, 2004 to December 6, 2006, he was responsible for the Broadband / Fixed Network strategic business area on the Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG . On February 15, 2006, the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media ( BITKOM ) announced that Walter Raizner had been elected as Vice President of the industry association. Due to the profit warning at the beginning of August 2006, the responsibilities of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG were reorganized in a Supervisory Board meeting on September 2, 2006 . Walter Raizner was the big loser of the change. Make He had responsibilities and got the group to influence . He was accused of having accelerated the decline in fixed line customers since he took office at the end of 2004 . As part of the restructuring of the group 's board of directors by the new Deutsche Telekom board chairman René Obermann in December 2006, Walter Raizner was released from his duties as T-Com board member with immediate effect on December 6, 2006. His successor was Timotheus Höttges , who is responsible not only for the T-Com fixed line network but also for the new Sales & Service division.
Raizner has been chairman of the supervisory board of UMT AG since 2011 .
Private
The passionate marathon runner is married and has two children.
Web links
- Financial Times Deutschland online ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography in the Munzinger archive
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- ↑ Walter Raizner changes from IBM to Telekom: Rickes Dunkelblauer , handelsblatt.de , September 6, 2004
- ↑ Presentation of the management on the UMT AG website
- ^ The strategist: Walter Raizner , welt.de , January 2, 2005
Current members: Timotheus Höttges (Chairman) | Adel Al-Saleh (T-Systems) | Dirk Wössner (Germany) | Thomas Dannenfeldt (Finance) | Christian Illek (Staff) | Thomas Kremer (data protection) | Claudia Nemat (Europe)
Former members: Manfred Balz (data protection) | Josef Brauner (Sales) | Detlev Buchal (product marketing) | Karl-Gerhard Eick (Finance) | Jeffrey A. Hedberg (International) | Max Hirschberger (Operating Office) | Hagen Hultzsch (Technology / Services) | Guido Kerkhoff (Southeast Europe) | Heinz Klinkhammer (Personnel) | Edward Kozel (CTIO) | Joachim Kröske (Finance) | René Obermann (Chairman, USA) | Walter Raizner (T-Com) | Konrad Reiss (T-Systems) | Kai-Uwe Ricke (Chairman) | Thomas Sattelberger (Personnel) | Marion Schick (staff) | Helmut Sihler (Chairman) | Ron Sommer (Chairman) | Helmut Ricke (Chairman) | Gerd Tenzer (Technology / Networks)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raizner, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bask |