Heinrich von Pierer

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Dr. Heinrich von Pierer (exactly Heinrich Pierer von Esch ) (born January 26, 1941 in Erlangen) is a German manager. From 1992 to 2005 he was CEO of the Siemens AG. Since then he is chairman of the supervisory board.

Pierer studied law and economics in Erlangen and joined Siemens in 1969 and from 1977 he worked for the company’s power generation subsidiary Kraftwerk Union AG (KWU). In 1989, he became President of KWU and a member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. In 1992 Pierer succeeded Karlheinz Kaske as CEO and held this post until January 2005, when Klaus Kleinfeld took over.

Apart from his activities for Siemens he is member of several other supervisory boards, amongst others Bayer and Volkswagen. Pierer is President of the Asia-Pacific-Committee of the German industry which he helped to found in 1993. He also functioned and still functions as an advisor of the German government under Gerhard Schröder and now Angela Merkel.

  • Wilfried Feldenkirchen / Eberhard Posner, The Siemens Entrepreneurs, Continuity and Change, 1847–2005, Ten Portraits, Munich, 2005.


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