Wolfgang Schreck

Wolfgang Schreck (born April 12, 1931 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † September 22, 1997 in Bremen ) was a German manager and managing director at the Daimler-Benz group, most recently in Bremen.

biography

Family, education and work

Schreck was the youngest of 4 children of the Mannheim general practitioner Dr. Kornelius Schreck and Elisabeth Schreck, b. Seubert.

Schreck attended elementary school in Ludwigshafen and the humanistic grammar school in Mannheim . Afterwards he worked for a tax advisor. Of 1952/53, he studied economics at the University of Mainz and 1953-1955 Business Administration from the Business School Mannheim and received his doctorate in 1956 at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz Dr. rer-pol. with the topic of local conditions for the chemical industry in West Germany .

From 1956 he was employed in accounting at BASF in Ludwigshafen.
In 1963 he moved to the Daimler Group in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, where he worked a. a. Assistant to board member Walter Gassmann (CDU), from 1966 assistant to Daimler board member Ulrich Raue. At the commercial vehicle works in Mannheim he was the main department manager from 1969, department director in 1971, deputy works manager in 1972 and commercial works manager in 1974.

Bremen

In 1977 he was commissioned as commercial director to expand the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen . In 1979 Daimler-Benz and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen signed a contract for the purchase of the property through Senator for Economic Affairs Dieter Tiedemann (SPD). In Bremen - Sebaldsbrück , the second largest production plant in the Daimler group was built as the largest private employer in the city. In 1984 the first car, a 190 model ( Mercedes-Benz W 201 ), rolled off the assembly line. The plant employs around 13,000 people (2013) with the car production of the C-Class Sedan, C-Class T-Model, C-Class Coupé, E-Class Coupé, E-Class Cabrio, SLK, SL, GLK. In 1992, Schreck left the management of the Bremen plant due to illness.

politics

Schreck was active in the Junge Union in Ludwigshafen and a member of the CDU. In 1960 he was elected to the Ludwigshafen city council together with Helmut Kohl . He was a member of the main and finance committee, the audit committee and a deputy member of the board of trustees of the adult education center.

Further memberships

Schreck took various honorary positions in Bremen. a .:

• Vice President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
• Board member in the state board of trustees
• Board of Directors of the Donors' Association for German Science
• Board member in the employers' association in Bremen * Board members of the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Bremen Tobacco College .

Honors

• In 1989 he was the first conductor at the Schaffermahlzeit in Bremen.

swell

• Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005 . Volume 2: 1970-1989. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8378-1020-2 .
• Self-reported by the family