Winfried Pinninghoff

Winfried Pinninghoff (2018)

Winfried Pinninghoff (born December 30, 1948 in Dortmund ) is a German engineer , industrial manager , professor and entrepreneur . As managing partner, he heads two private companies.

Career

Winfried Pinninghoff was born in Dortmund and grew up here with his younger sister Rita and his older sister Ursula . He attended elementary school and high school from 1954 to 1965 , and then an industrial apprenticeship at the large company Hoesch AG in Dortmund, where he was also an exchange apprentice at British Steel (GB) Swansea .

After graduating from high school, he completed a degree in "physical engineering" with a focus on measurement and control technology and in 1975 he obtained a degree in engineering from the Hagen University of Applied Sciences .

Pinninghoff has been with Ute Pinninghoff , b. Kels , who worked as a teacher at a special school. The couple lives in Lüdinghausen and has their son Gerhard Pinninghoff (* 1976), who works as an entrepreneur together with his father, and their daughter Dagmar Pinninghoff (* 1980).

Industrial activity in national and international sales

From 1968 to 1970 Pinninghoff worked as an electrical mechanic at Westfalenhütte , Hoesch AG in Dortmund. This was followed by his basic military service in the Bundeswehr in Dülmen .

In 1975 he took over the duties of a sales engineer for energy technology in the chemical industry at SIEMENS AG , Dortmund branch, and later for coal mining in the underground area of Ruhrkohle AG as a project manager for major projects.

With the knowledge and experience gained in this way, he made a professional change within Siemens from 1979 to support in mechanical engineering with international projects in the mining sector in China , Korea , South Africa and Mexico .

In 1981 there was another professional change at Siemens in the surface area of hard coal mining with conveyor systems , washes , energy centers , power plants and coking plants of Ruhrkohle AG , with the focus on the supervision and management of major projects at the Siemens headquarters.

Industry top manager

In 1989 Pinninghoff switched to the sales of installation technology , where he especially took over the main office functions in the meter business for his company SIEMENS . He then became sales manager in the Siemens plant engineering and technical services division for the beverage industry such as breweries, dairies, wells and liquor companies in the WEST region.

In 1992, Pinninghoff moved to the SIEMENS Munich branch as a sales department manager in the field of plant construction and technical services. His main task was to look after industrial customers in the southern Bavaria region and pilot regional customer management in the southern Bavaria sales region .

In 1996 Pinninghoff moved to the SIEMENS branches in Osnabrück and Münster . Here he was entrusted with the management of the "Osnabrück Model", ie with the formation of a cross-sector alliance sales in the industry / energy area. He was also a member of the management team at the Osnabrück branch.

In 1997, Pinninghoff became the project manager for the “Sales Increase Program” in the industrial area in the Ruhr region . In 1998 he was promoted to spokesman for the SIEMENS Osnabrück branch and chairman of the management team.

From 2002 to 2004, Pinninghoff was head of the SIEMENS “Industrial Solutions and Services” division in the EAST region with offices in Berlin and Leipzig . At the same time he was a member of the management of the Leipzig branch and a member of the SIEMENS management committee for the region Germany OST and worked here as director (authorized signatory).

From 2004 to 2006 Pinninghoff was also head of the SIEMENS Leipzig branch . Here he was chairman of the Leipzig plant management and at the same time director (authorized signatory). At the same time he worked as the head of the SIEMENS division "Industrial Solutions and Services" in the Germany EAST region.

The festive farewell to Pinninghoff from these functions took place in February 2007 in the hotel "The Westin" in Leipzig. Prominent personalities from industry and politics took part in this ceremony, such as Frank Büchner , Managing Director Siemens AG, Region Germany OST, Burkhard Jung , Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig, Bruce P. De Marcus , Chairman of the Management of the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlegesellschaft ( MIBRAG ), who also received the dignity an "honor miner" awarded to Winfried Pinninghoff, Alois-Bernhard Kerkhoff , board member PTS Munich / Heidenau. The keynote lecture was given by Klaus Wucherer , Member of the Management Board of Siemens AG, on the subject of globalization and economic development in the regions of the world ; The laudation by Josef Winter , Siemens AG Board Member for the Region Germany, highlighted Winfried Pinninghoff's more than 30 years of responsibility for the large Siemens concern.

Freelance entrepreneur

Since 2007 Pinninghoff has switched from the large company SIEMENS AG to the private sector as a freelance entrepreneur. He founded the management consultancy WIPCONSULTING and since then has offered management consultancy services in Lüdinghausen , Dortmund and Leipzig . As the owner of this company, he draws on his extensive and long-term global industrial experience in large-scale industry.

Since 2009, Pinninghoff has also been the managing partner of his son Gerhard Pinninghoff's company "GP-SECURITY & SERVICES GmbH", which operates the two offices for the Münsterland and Ruhr area .

University teaching activities and science funding through development associations and foundations

In the last few years of his work in top management in large-scale industry, Pinninghoff has increasingly recognized that application-oriented training for the next generation of engineers must include "sales functions" to a much greater extent. In particular, these should include “project management” for large projects as well as “specialist areas of corporate management” and also “business start-ups”. This is why Pinninghoff has also established appropriate contacts to the colleges and universities in its respective region of activity for large-scale industry and has become effective in promoting academic practice.

As early as 1996 Pinninghoff has in this sense at the university Osnabrück started, with special support by the then rector Erhard Mielenhausen and by the Vice Dean for Research and Development Werner Söte , in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to hold special lectures and workshops on "Project Management" as a guest lecturer. These courses, supported by decades of own industry experience, took place with a great response until 2002.

Since 2007 Pinninghoff started at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) Leipzig in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with corresponding lectures "Project Management for Engineers".

Since 2008 he has also held the lecture "Project Management" as well as lectures on specialist areas of corporate management and seminars on "Business start-ups for engineers" in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Technology at the HTWK Leipzig.

In 2010 at the HTWK Leipzig in the faculty of electrical engineering and information technology , the lecture "Cultural differences in leadership - the role of a manager in a large company" was added.

After several years of successful work at the HTWK, he was awarded the status of honorary professor in 2011 .

Furthermore, Pinninghoff very soon recognized the need for special research funding, especially in the area of ​​young talent through stays abroad as well as funding for academic theses and doctorates, and for this purpose also used the instruments of the "sponsoring associations" and "science foundations" in a targeted manner.

Through the KARL-KOLLE Foundation, he helped shape the MINT funding program for technology and digitization at elementary, secondary and comprehensive schools as well as at grammar schools. He is a member of the jury at the regional competitions and championships of the WORLD ROBOT OLYMPIAD (WRO). In addition, he is socially involved in various projects.

Winfried Pinninghoff (left) at the award of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony to Horst Saalbach (2nd from left), together with Georg Milbradt (3rd from left) and Werner Kriesel , right. ( Dresden 2015)

Pinninghoff is involved in the further development of the private Leipzig Commercial College (HHL) as a member of the board of trustees , chaired by Ulrich Lehner , chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom and Thyssenkrupp and a former member of the management team at Henkel . As deputy chairman of the board of the "Kramer Foundation", Pinninghoff successfully campaigned to rename this traditional foundation, in which Georg Milbradt , former Saxon finance minister, prime minister, CDU chairman and successor to Kurt Biedenkopf , chairman of the board , was renamed the "HHL foundation" from 2017 . Pinninghoff is in the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management , at which Andreas Pinkwart was Rector from 2011 to 2017 (currently acting Minister for Economics, Innovation, Digitization and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia ) and with the acting Rector Stephan Stubner , the shareholder representative of HHL Foundation .

At the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) in Leipzig, Pinninghoff took the initiative to found the HTWK Foundation in 2012 and became its chairman of the board of trustees; His successor has been Joachim Wicke , who has a doctorate in engineering , and is Head of Sales Germany Products & Systems at SIEMENS AG.

Pinninghoff is also an "honorary member" of the "Förderverein der HTWK", whose long-time chairman is the retired professor Klaus-Peter Schulze .

In his hometown Dortmund and in his respective regions of activity for several companies in large-scale industry, Pinninghoff has dedicated himself to academic research funding :

He is a member of the Friends of the TU Dortmund Association . The TU Do works closely with the company "KODA Stanz- und Biegetechnik GmbH", Dortmund, of which Pinninghoff is also chairman of the advisory board , through the Institute for Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) under the direction of A. Erman Tekkaya and Matthias Kleiner . The KARL-KOLLE Foundation, Dortmund, is also active in promoting science. Karl Kolle (1913–2008) was a successful German entrepreneur from the middle class and founder of the KARL KOLLE Foundation. Pinninghoff is the chairman of the board of trustees of this science foundation, which, in addition to the HTWK Leipzig and the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, also supports the TU Dortmund , the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund and the University of Witten / Herdecke in promoting young talent.

His uncle Karl Kolle founded the company "Kolle & Dahm oHG" in 1955 together with his wife Martha Kolle and the businessman Siegfried Dahm . This company initially dealt with the production of car springs. In the 1950s and early 1960s, his uncle expanded the family company's activities in the direction of stamped and bent parts for the automotive sector for widespread use in the automotive industry. In the meantime, "KODA Stanz- und Biegetechnik GmbH" has developed into a globally operating medium-sized company in the metal industry and exports to almost 50 countries. In 1998 his uncle also founded the “KARL-KOLLE Foundation”, to which Kolle transferred his company shares, as he had no children as heirs. The foundation sold the company to an industrial investor who successfully continued the company. As the founder and chairman of the foundation's board of directors, Kolle was advised on his funding activities by a board of trustees made up of five people and the executive board. In 2008 Kolle died at the age of 95, and since then Pinninghoff has been the chairman of the board of trustees in line with the foundation's concept of promoting science.

Memberships / committees (selection)

• HHL Handelshochschule Leipzig (private), member of the board of trustees
• HHL Foundation, Deputy Chairman of the Board
• HHL, shareholder representative (HHL Foundation)
• HTWK Foundation, Leipzig: Founder and former Chairman and Member of the Board of Trustees
• Friends of the HTWK Leipzig: honorary member
• Industrial Employers Association Osnabrück-Emsland-Bentheim; formerly member of the advisory board
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry Osnabrück (IHK); formerly a member of the industry committee
• Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK), formerly a member of the General Assembly
• TÜV Saxony; formerly member of the advisory board
• Club International, Leipzig: longtime vice president
• KARL-KOLLE-Foundation, Dortmund: Chairman of the Board of Trustees
• Company "KODA Stanz- und Biegetechnik GmbH", Dortmund: Chairman of the Advisory Board
• Westfälische Industriegesellschaft mbH, Holzwickede: Chairman of the Advisory Board
• VDE district association Osnabrück; former chairman
• VDE State Representation Lower Saxony; formerly speaker
• Marketing Club Münster / Osnabrück: former member
• Osnabrücker Club, Osnabrück: Member
• Osnabrück Tourist Office: Member
• Friends of TU Dortmund : Member
• LÜDINGHAUSEN MARKETING: Member
• BDWS Federal Association of German Guard and Security Companies: Member
• GDD Society for Data Protection and Data Security: Member.

Honors (selection)

• Honorary miner of the major mining company MIBRAG
• Winner of the Jakob Leupold Medal of the HTWK Leipzig.

Publications

Pinninghoff's publication activity comprises almost 50 articles. His lectures were also addressed to Siemens management bodies, VDE committees and members, members of the state parliament, industrial partners, bank customers, festive events as well as university management, professors and students.

Born in Dortmund, Pinninghoff is also familiar with the "Rhenish Regiolekt" through his father-in-law and has published a series of 7 works by the Rhenish Regiolect poet Jupp Silvester Kels (1909-2006) in "Düsseldorfer Rheinisch". In particular, Kels became known for having frequently spoken roles in regional radio plays in the 1980s and 1990s and given lectures with a historical background in the region in Düsseldorf Rhenish.

literature

• Winfried Pinninghoff (ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Düsseldorfer Heimatjeschicht op Platt un Alde Mär` which should be closed in Düsseldorf and drömheröm. Bilingual also standard German. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 1995. This book contains illustrations by Carlie Jo Ranff , Düsseldorf.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Düsseldorf un I; Earlier Ze Huus I. to X. Meuzkes en prose and verse. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2001.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Hondert Johr memories 1900 to 2000; Explained from Jupp Silvester Kels. Following: Rheinische Sprüch from the hodgepodge. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2001.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (Ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Pitter Bowè; Unlikely miscarriages, such as what Pitter saws, should wohr un eso jewese sinn! Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2001.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (Ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Lörker Verzäll; Meuzkes us Loerk. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2001.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (Ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Putzemeuzkes; What I can decay from alde Düsseldorf plasters. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2002.

• Winfried Pinninghoff (ed.): Jupp Silvester Kels: Dörch et Johr: Contemplative and Funny en Prosa and Verskes; Also a little standard German. Lüdinghausen, Brahmsweg 1, 2004. This book also contains biographical information on the editor W. Pinninghoff as a source.

• Gabriele Reißmann: Siemens: Farewell to Winfried Pinninghoff. The trade journal for the paper and pulp industry - weekly paper for paper production, 135th year, April 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gabriele Reissmann: Siemens: Festive farewell to Winfried Pinninghoff. The trade journal for the paper and pulp industry - weekly paper for paper production, 135th year, April 2007, pp. 326–327: keynote speech by Klaus Wucherer , member of the board of Siemens AG; Laudation by Josef Winter , Siemens AG Member of the Board Region Germany.
2. ↑ Winfried Pinninghoff: Fundraising as an opportunity for universities - using the example of the HTWK. Inaugural lecture at the HTWK Leipzig, October 2011.
3. ↑ Father of the Robotic AGs honored in Leipzig - Prof. Winfried Pinninghoff receives the Jakob Leupold Medal. ("The medal in memory of the pioneering Leipzig mechanic Leupold is the highest award of the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) Leipzig.") Lüdinghausen, October 20, 2018, SELH, No. 244, 42nd week.