Wolfgang Mayrhuber
Wolfgang Mayrhuber (born March 22, 1947 in Waizenkirchen , Upper Austria ; † December 1, 2018 ) was an Austrian manager . From 2003 to 2010 he was CEO and from May 2013 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG . With effect from September 24, 2017, he handed over the latter office to his successor.
education
Wolfgang Mayrhuber graduated from the technical college for mechanical engineering at the Technical College (HTBLA) in Steyr / Austria and studied at the Bloor Institute / Canada . In the fall of 1990 he completed executive management training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Career at Lufthansa
Wolfgang Mayrhuber worked for Deutsche Lufthansa AG for more than 40 years. He started on February 1, 1970 as an engineer in engine maintenance in Hamburg and in the following years passed through all management levels of all technical divisions before he was appointed head of the technical department and fully authorized technician on November 1, 1992. At the beginning of the 1990s, he headed the Lufthansa renovation team. This restructuring task was followed in October 1994 by the appointment of Chairman of the Board of Management of the newly founded Lufthansa Technik AG, whose successful further development into the leading global service provider with 25 companies worldwide today, Wolfgang Mayrhuber significantly shaped. He held this position until his appointment to the Group Board of Management for the Passenger Division on January 1, 2001. On April 1, 2002, he was also appointed deputy chairman of the board.
At the end of the Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2003, he took up his post as CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG. In March 2005, his contract was extended to December 31, 2010. Mayrhuber ruled out a further extension of his contract beyond December 31, 2010 at the Lufthansa Annual General Meeting on April 29, 2008.
Christoph Franz was elected to succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber on September 22, 2010.
After the statutory cooling-off period had expired , Mayrhuber was elected as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting of Deutsche Lufthansa AG on May 7, 2013 . Previously, there had been public disputes about his candidacy to succeed Jürgen Weber . International shareholder advisory companies had spoken out in advance against Mayrhuber's candidacy, whereupon Lufthansa initially announced that Mayrhuber was withdrawing his candidacy. In the end, Wolfgang Mayrhuber took over and received a narrow majority of the shareholders' votes.
activities
Wolfgang Mayrhuber held various supervisory board mandates. He was a member of the supervisory boards of Infineon Technologies AG, Fraport AG, Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG, Thomas Cook AG, Münchener Rückversicherungs- Gesellschaft AG and BMW AG. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of HEICO Corp. (Florida / USA).
Wolfgang Mayrhuber was elected chairman of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) in 2006, of which he had been a member of the steering committee for years. In addition, he was a member of the Strategy Committee (SPC) and the extended steering committee, the so-called Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In addition, from June 2007 he took over the chairmanship of the IATA Strategy Committee (SPC). From 2010 to 2013 Mayrhuber was on the board of directors of the major Swiss bank UBS .
Mayrhuber was married and had three children. He lived in Hamburg and died on December 1, 2018 after a long, serious illness.
literature
- Wolfgang Mayrhuber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Published by Deutsche Lufthansa AG , presumably by the chairman of the supervisory board, ipse Mayrhuber is leaving his company after almost 48 years of aerotelegraph on September 25, 2017, accessed on October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Mayrhuber to leave at the end of 2010 - Lufthansa confirms forecast for 2008 , in: airliners.de April 29, 2008 , accessed on August 8, 2020.
- ↑ Florian Diekmann, Martin Hesse: Posse around Lufthansa supervisor Mayrhuber: Boarding at the last minute. In: Spiegel Online . May 7, 2013, accessed December 3, 2018 .
Hans M. Bongers (1954–1964) | Board members with equal rights (1964–1972) | Herbert Culmann (1972–1982) | Heinz Ruhnau (1982–1991) | Jürgen Weber (1991–2003) | Wolfgang Mayrhuber (2003-2010) | Christoph Franz (2011–2014) | Carsten Spohr (since 2014)
Current members: Norbert Reithofer (chairman) | Manfred Schoch (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Quandt (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Schmid (Deputy Chairman) | Karl-Ludwig Kley (Deputy Chairman) | Christiane Benner | Kurt Bock | Verena zu Dohna-Jaeger (employee representative) | Heinrich Hiesinger | Reinhard F. Hüttl | Susanne Klatten | Anke Schäferkordt | Horst Lischka (employee representative) | Willibald Löw (employee representative) | Simone Menne | Dominique Mohabeer (employee representative) | Brigitte Rödig (employee representative) | Vishal Sikka | Thomas Wittig (employee representative) | Werner Zierer (employee representative)
Former chairmen of the supervisory board: Hans Christian Dietrich (1918–1920) | Johannes Philipp Vielmetter (from 1920) | Albert Pinner (1921–1923) | Emil Georg von Stauß (1926–1942) | Hans Rummel (1942–1945) | Hans Karl von Mangoldt-Reiboldt (1948–1959) | Hans Feith (1959–1960) | Johannes Ferdinand Semler (1960–1961) | Alfons Wagner (1961–1962) | Hermann Karoli (1962–1972) | Rolf Draeger (1972–1974) | Herbert Quandt (1974–1980) | Hans von der Goltz (1980–1993) | Eberhard von Kuenheim (1993–1999) | Volker Doppelfeld (1999–2004) | Joachim Milberg (2004–2015) Renate Köcher |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayrhuber, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waizenkirchen , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 2018 |