Professional career

Andreas Schwer studied

aerospace engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wit ...

from 1987 to 1992. In 1997 he earned a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in this subject with a research project at the European Space Agency (ESA). From 1999 to 2000 he completed his master's in space

systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering util ...

at the Universiteit Delft while already working for Airbus. Schwer initially worked for Airbus in the space division from 1995 to 2004 and as head of engineering in the helicopter division from 2004 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012 he was CTO and Executive Vice-president at

The Manitowoc Company The Manitowoc Company, Inc. was founded in 1902 and, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitow ...

(USA). From 2013 to 2017 he was with member of the

Rheinmetall Rheinmetall AG is a German automotive and arms manufacturer, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. Its shares are traded on the Frankfurt stock exchange. History Rheinmetall was founded in 1889. Banker and investor Lorenz Zuckermandel L ...

-Defence executive management board, CEO its Combat System division and, from 2016, CEO of Rheinmetall International. In 2018 he was the inaugural CEO of

Saudi Arabian Military Industries , type = Private , traded_as = , industry = Defense & Security , fate = , founded = , defunct = , hq_location_city = Riyadh, Riyadh , hq_location_country = Saudi Arabia , key_people = Ahmed Al Khateeb (Chairman)Walid Abukhaled (CEO) ...

building up the company from greenfield into a significant defense industrial enterprise by entering into strategic cooperations with many international defence OEM. Schwer has been

chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

and board member of the Australian metal 3D-printer manufacturer Titomic since July 2020. Dr Schwer was appointed Group CEO of the Australian headquartered EOS (Electro Optic Systems) in August 2022.

Private life

Andreas Schwer lived in

Meersburg Meersburg () is a town in Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany. It is on Lake Constance. It is known for its medieval city. The lower town ("Unterstadt") and upper town ("Oberstadt") are reserved for pedestrians only, and connected by t ...

at the Lake of Constance until 2017. In Meersburg he was involved in as an organist in the Catholic parish of Mariä Heimsuchung.

External links

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References

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