Heinrich von Pierer
Heinrich von Pierer ( born January 26, 1941 in Erlangen, actually, Heinrich Karl Friedrich Eduard Pierer of Esch ) is a German manager. He was from 1992 to 2005 and Chairman of the Board from 2005 until April 25, 2007 the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG.
Life
Heinrich von Pierer attended high school Fridericianum Erlangen and then studied law and economics at the Friedrich -Alexander University in Erlangen and Nuremberg. He was in 1968 with the dissertation part nothingness transactions: The relation of will of the parties and legal principle in the area of Section 139 BGB to the Dr. jur. doctorate. He then acquired the academic degree of Dipl.- economist.
In 1969 von Pierer his career at Siemens AG. He became a member of the board of the company in 1989. On 1 October 1992, he joined the successor of Karlheinz Kaske as Chairman of the Board. On 7 July 2004, Siemens announced the appointment of Klaus Kleinfeld as the successor of Pierers from January 2005. From Pierer took over on 27 January 2005 in direct connection to the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board.
From Pierer holds ten Supervisory Board mandates, including Bayer, Hochtief, the Munich Reinsurance Company AG and Volkswagen. He was from 1993 to 2006 Chairman of the newly established Asia - Pacific Committee of German Business (APA ). From 1972 to 1990 he was responsible for the CSU in the city of Erlangen advice. He was also from 1998 to 2005 on the Board of the Technical University of Munich active.
On 29 August 2005, the CDU announced his appointment as chief economic adviser to the chancellor Angela Merkel. From Pierer head the Council for Innovation and Growth. This sets the CSU member its function continues as advisor to the federal government. Even in the Schröder era he was a member of the red- green initiative, Partners for Innovation.
As a consultant, he formulated a formula for innovation: " knowledge of customer needs plus inspiration multiplied with a long breath plus transpiration is equal to market success. "
On 13 January 2006, appointed by Pierer honorary professor at the Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen -Nürnberg for the field of business administration, in particular, industrial management, the Economic and Social Sciences.
April 19, 2007 declared by Pierer his resignation as Chairman of the Board of Siemens AG; so he put his office at the beginning of the Supervisory Board meeting on 25 April 2007. He said the decision 'm not in connection with the bribery scandal, but done in the interest of the company and employees. In fact, probably was the public pressure because of the " bribery " has become too large.
As part of the workup of the bribe scandal of the Rennomee Pierers has suffered greatly. Successor of Pierers was Gerhard Cromme, Chairman of ThyssenKrupp and at the time of his appointment Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG.
On 20 May 2008 declared by Pierer his resignation as Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG.
From Pierer Supervisory Board is the Turkish conglomerate Koç Holding.
He has also worked as an independent management consultant.
On January 17, 2011 - shortly before his 70th birthday - presented by Pierer before his new translucent autobiography. The book is called " peak - storms ".
Criticism
With the takeover of the Presidency Board of Siemens AG violated by Pierer against the Corporate Governance Code, according to which the direct transfer of a CEO is to be avoided in the Supervisory Board chair. While this was initially accepted almost without opposition, the problem is open emerged in the wake of the corruption scandal at Siemens Pierer was a member of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board, which investigated the allegations of corruption and of course illuminated by Pierers tenure. Because of the apparent conflict of interest and the fact that a large part of the affair was as CEO in his time, was suspended by Pierer numerous allegations. At the 2007 Annual General Meeting of Siemens AG waived by Pierer on 25 January 2007 finally from further participation in meetings that have the corruption issue to the subject; but the position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board he did not want to take. The AGM approved with over 34 percent against the discharge of Pierers and showed so much dissatisfaction with the decision of Pierers.
Despite the corruption scandal at Siemens, the CDU and especially Angela Merkel held firmly to the longer term of Pierer as head of the Council for Innovation and Growth; However, on 17 April 2008, the Chancellor declared the intention to waive Heinrich von Pierer in this function. This happened to coincide with the publication of an internal audit report of 1 April 2008, which was announced on 18 April with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A Siemens manager has brought Pierer with a government contract in Argentina in context, which has been obtained by means of bribes. The public prosecutor has subsequently received preliminary investigations.
According to a press report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 17 May 2010 Heinrich von Pierer paid the Siemens Group 5 million euros in damages.
Private life, family and Name
From Pierer is married, he and his wife, Annette, have three children and are grandparents. At 18, he won the Bavarian Tennis Youth Championships.
His grandfather, the imperial field marshal lieutenant Edward Pierer, acquired in 1900 payment of 280 Austrian crowns a noble title and put his name to after the "of" the maiden name of his wife, so that the surname now was " Pierer of Esch ". All Austrian noble titles were discontinued in 1919 by the Republic of Austria, but of Pierers father Leo ( 1895-1992 ) moved in 1937 from Austria to Germany and gained citizenship in 1938 as part of the nobility back. Pierer even shortened his full name usually starting as " Pierer ". Helmut Kühn, who had researched the origin of the title of nobility and its legality questioned, had been brought by a Siemens lawyer with controversial means for the signing of a cease and desist letter.
Honors and Awards
- Golden Ring of Honour City of Erlangen (1995 )
- Ring of honor of Villach ( 1997)
- Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (1997)
- Grand Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
- Honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1998)
- Winners of the Ring of Honour 2000, the Eduard Rhein Foundation
- Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
- Scopus Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( 2002)
- Golden Ring of Honour of the Technical University of Munich (2003)
- World Business Award (2003)
- Honorary Doctorate of Tongji University, Shanghai (2004)
- Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin (2004)
- Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Graz ( 2005)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (2005)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (2005)
- Honorary citizenship of Singapore; this was the first German citizen (2006)
- AICGS Global Leadership Award
- John J. McCloy Award, New York
- Appeal of Conscience Award by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, New York
Volunteering
Heinrich von Pierer is also a jury member of "Top 100", the award for the most innovative companies in the German Mittelstand. With expert knowledge from practice, he decides with which company " Innovator of the Year".
Works
- Heinrich von Pierer, Karl Homann, Gertrude Luebbe -Wolff: between profit and moral. Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-446-22460-2.
- Heinrich von Pierer: Summit Storms, The Autobiography. Econ, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-430-20027-1.