Christian Streiff
Christian Streiff ( born September 21, 1954 in Sarrebourg, Lorraine ) is a French manager.
Life
Streiff has a degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, the French national mining engineering school in Paris, which is one of the elite high schools.
He began his career in 1979 at the international French company Saint- Gobain. Apart from its industrial and technological tasks he was employed in various functions that are available with the use of glass fiber-reinforced - plastics and ceramic and in the automotive industry related.
Streiff, who speaks French fluently German, English and Italian, and described himself as a Frenchman, and half German, spent fifteen years in various positions in Germany in Herzogenrath, in Aachen and at Halbergerhütte in Saarland before and after various posts in Italy France in 1997 as president of the business branch of the former sewer pipe maker Pont -A- Mousson SA was appointed. From 2001 to 2003 he headed the sector high-performance material with headquarters in Paris and Boston, Massachusetts, USA, before he aufrückte as Director General in 2004.
During his tenure from 1985 to 1992 at the top of Gevetex, a fiberglass factory of Saint- Gobain vetrotex in Herzogenrath near Aachen, he found time to condense his experiences and reflections with the reunification of Germany to a Roman, who bears the title war game. It brings a French manager an East German factory manager ruthless the laws of capitalism at. Not quite groundlessly criticized the French literary figure wearing autobiographical and other people in the novel are borrowed from the then real life. Also the selected place name Osbach is a mixture of Oschatz (VEB glass silk factory Oschatz, from 1990 Glass GmbH Oschatz, 1993 PD Glass GmbH Oschatz ) and the name of an employee.
Streiff as Director-General and Deputy CEO of the multinational glass and building materials manufacturer Saint- Gobain. There he enjoyed the role of the " crown prince " of CEO Jean -Louis Beffa to May 2005. There he was " spontaneous, impulsive, impatient, charismatic, but not always sent" as described. He is a board member of the German steel and technology group ThyssenKrupp AG, the German tire manufacturer and automotive supplier Continental AG and the Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian SpA.
On July 2, 2006 Streiff was appointed as a Director of the European aeronautics and space company EADS and CEO of the subsidiary Airbus. His desire to be appointed both EADS and Airbus to one of the two co-presidents, was denied him. Streiff presented to overcome the weakness of the dollar resulting from the decline in revenues and the crisis of the new A380 jet airliner its Power 8 restructuring plan, which should be saved within four years € 2 billion because of delays in delivery. He announced to want to change the " standard of living at Airbus ," which was conceived in Germany as a danger especially for Hamburg -Finkenwerder as the site for final assembly and delivery of the A380. Caused a stir Streiff statement, with the A380 Airbus would throw back to two to three years, and Airbus need ten to fifteen years to catch up production and technical development over the rival Boeing.
After the beginning of October already rumors of an imminent withdrawal due to controversy over Streiff recovery plan and discord with the co-CEO of EADS, Thomas Enders, Streiff resigned after just three months on 9 October 2006 from his post. He justified his step with the double management structure of EADS and Airbus, which do not just leave him the necessary operating power. He was succeeded by Louis Gallois, who had already inherited in its capacity as co-CEO of EADS on July 2, 2006 Noël Forgeard.
On February 6, 2007 Christian Streiff joined the succession of Jean -Martin Folz as CEO of the French automotive group PSA Peugeot Citroën. However, Streiff was again replaced in the function on March 29, 2009 by Supervisory Board Chairman Thierry Peugeot, who appointed as his successor Philippe Varin.
Works
- Christian Streiff: war game. Nuée La Bleue, Strasbourg 2000, ISBN 2-7165-0520-9.