Karlheinz Kaske

Karlheinz Kaske ( born April 19, 1928 in Essen, † 27 September 1998 Berg / Lake Starnberg ) was CEO of Siemens AG.

Life

Kaske studied physics at RWTH Aachen University and earned his Dr.-Ing. in Karlsruhe. After working as a development engineer at Siemens & Halske Werner works in Karlsruhe ( 1950-1953 ), he was a lecturer in electrical engineering and electrical metrology at the Mining Academy in Aachen. He returned as head of sales area back power plant automation at Siemens in Karlsruhe. In 1967, he worked as a visiting scientist at Fuji Denki Electric in Tokyo. After that, he worked in the planning department of Siemens AG and involved in the planning that led to the merger of the independent Siemens companies to Siemens AG. He led the Nuremberg counter work until 1973 and then in the business measuring and process and the main area of ​​common technical tasks. In 1975 he was appointed to the Siemens Managing Board and in 1977 he became the field of energy technology before. On 28 January 1981 Kaske was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG. He held this position until September 30, 1992.

Part-time, he was on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, first lecturer and he was appointed honorary professor in 1994.

Under the CEO Kaske technological change of electrical engineering to electronics and the foreign business has been driven within Siemens. Furthermore, the operating units more responsibility was transferred under his aegis.