Heinrich Hiesinger

Heinrich Hiesinger ( born May 25, 1960 in Bopfingen ) is a German industrial managers and since January 21, 2011 Executive Board Chairman of ThyssenKrupp AG.

Life

He grew up on a farm, went to school and finished high school before he went to the Technical University of Munich, where he earned his diploma in 1986 as an electrical engineer. In 1991 he received his doctorate.

After he had worked from 1986 to 1991 as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich, he came in 1992 to Siemens. Before his appointment to the RI Board, he held various positions within the Group. He was appointed head of the Siemens Metering AG in train / Switzerland, which now operates under the name Landis Gyr 1999. In 2000 he was appointed to the Board of Management for Power Transmission and Distribution. Three years later he was again sent as " renovators " to Switzerland - namely as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Building Technologies AG, which is now merged with the regional company Siemens Switzerland AG.

After several turbulence in connection with the corruption scandal at Siemens, in which the Group was involved in 2007, he was appointed as the successor to John Mayer field in the RI Board, where he was responsible for the following business areas:

• Siemens Building Technologies (SBT )
• Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS )
• Corporate Information Office (CIO )
• Corporate Supply Chain and Procurement (CSP )
• Global Shared Services ( GSS)
• Europe, including Regional Organisation Germany (RD )

He should also take charge of the end of 2007 the Corporate Personnel, which held up to that Jürgen Radomski, whose contract was not renewed by the end of 2007 the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG. On 1 January 2008 he became head of the newly created Siemens Industry Sector.

On 4 May 2010, ThyssenKrupp AG announced that Hiesinger from January 2011 to take over the succession of Ekkehard Schulz as Chairman. To this end, he resigned on 30 September 2010 from the Managing Board of Siemens AG and served from 1 October 2010, first as Vice Chairman of ThyssenKrupp AG. Effective at the close of the Annual General Meeting on 21 January 2011, the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG Hiesinger has appointed Chief Executive Officer of ThyssenKrupp AG.

Gerhard Cromme had to avoid as chairman of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp in this Personnel conflicts of interest; This he succeeded in the opinion of observers differently well.