Kurt Lotz

Kurt Lotz ( born September 18, 1912 in Lender, Hessen; † 9 March 2005 in Hannover) was a former CEO of Brown, Boveri and Cie. Ltd. (BBC ), later Volkswagenwerk AG and - after retirement from active service - Chairman of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature ) in Germany.

Lotz began the police career after graduation. From 1946 he made at BBC in Dortmund an apprenticeship and worked his way - after evening studies in Business Administration - within twelve years from wage and Materialabrechner as Chief Executive Officer of the Mannheim group high. In June 1967, he was brought by former Volkswagen boss Heinrich Nordhoff in the VW Group. After Nordhoff's death in April 1968, Lotz CEO of VW. During his tenure at the BBC in Mannheim Mannheim University awarded him an honorary doctoral degrees, TU Braunschweig later appointed him honorary professor.

Lotz recognized that VW in the future could not go on alone with the successful car model beetle and encouraged the development of models Golf and Audi 80/Passat to. In September 1971 Lotz resigned after he had dealt long with the issues of personnel policy and the trade union and political participation at VW. The workforce stood at the time of his resignation behind Lotz. He was succeeded by Rudolf Leiding. The fruits of his labor and Leidings could but until his successor Toni Schmücker harvest with the big sales success of the Gulf.

Since 1981 Lotz was chairman of the WWF in Germany.

Lotz died after a long and serious illness at the age of 92 years.

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