Heinz Dürr
Heinz Otto Dürr (* July 16, 1933 in Stuttgart ) is a German entrepreneur and manager. He is a major shareholder of the Stuttgart Dürr AG. From 1980 to 1990 he was CEO of AEG Group. From 1991, he was the first president of the German Federal Railroad, from 1 September 1991, Director General of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. With the merger and privatization of two tracks to Deutsche Bahn AG as part of the railway reform, he became CEO of the new company. He held until 1997 this position.
Career
After attending a National Political reform school, he completed his schooling at the Leibniz -Gymnasium in Stuttgart and then trained as a structural steel fitter at DUEWAG in Krefeld. By 1957, he studied mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart. It was followed by the leadership of the family business Otto Dürr acting alone authorized managing director until 1980.
Corporate services
In this capacity, he built the Otto Dürr GmbH industry to the international Dürr Group. As chief negotiator for the metal employers in collective district Nordwürttemberg - Nordbaden he gained national prominence.
Rehabilitation of AEG
In 1979, the company recorded AEG -Telefunken AG a record loss in the amount of 968 million DM In January 1980, the Supervisory Board appointed the medium- Chairman of the Board. On August 9, 1982 Dürr filed for comparison. He steered the company then from 1982 to 1984 with the assistance of a lawyer Wilhelm Andreas Schaaf as Settlement Administrator and the Board Consultants Klaus Kuhn by comparison. In addition to numerous (emergency ) Company sales ( ANT, Telefunken, T & N, Signalbau Huber and others) and restructuring the implementation of a new management structure and the revitalization of the traditional brand AEG were the foundation of economic development. In 1985, he steered the company under the cash-rich roof of Daimler -Benz AG, which was to develop motor vehicle manufacturers, an integrated technology group.
Conversion of the Federal Railways Deutsche Bahn AG
From 1991 to mid- 1997, he was chairman of the German Federal Railroad or the Deutsche Bahn AG. On September 1, 1991, he was also Chairman of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. In the first stage of the railway reform federal and state railway were transferred to the German Bahn AG on 1 January 1994 in Dürr's tenure.
Was under his tenure, in 1991, received the high-speed rail traffic in Germany with commissioning of the ICE and the new lines between Hanover and Würzburg and Mannheim and Stuttgart. The introduction of the railway Card 1992 served both the customer loyalty as the harmonization of the tariff systems of federal and the Reichsbahn. The pioneering campaign aimed at the business future privatization of the railway authorities, for the adoption of railway reform in 1994, the legal framework was created. Dürr initiated including the station -21 projects, which include, among others, 21 Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Munich 21 21. During his tenure, even the Happy-Weekend - Ticket has been introduced.
From July 1997 to February 1999 he was Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bahn AG. The reason for the immediate resignation of this activity on 24 February 1999 disagreement between him and the Federal Republic of Germany have been specified as the owner of the Deutsche Bahn. Dieter H. Vogel succeeded him in the position of Chairman.
From 1 January 1996, he was president of the Community of European Railways.
Withdrawal from the Supervisory Board of Dürr AG
The Dürr family holds nearly 30 percent of the shares of Dürr AG. On April 26, 2013 Heinz Dürr retired after 24 years as a executive chairman of the company.
Awards
Publications
- Heinz Dürr: In the front row. Records of an intrepid. wjs, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937989-45-7.
- Heinz Dürr: About the age. A conversation with Cato over obsession with youth, wisdom and transience. Quadriga, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86995-011-2.
- Günther Saßmannshausen (ed.): Heinz Dürr. Approximations to a curious entrepreneur. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37315-7.