Karlheinz Kaske (April 19, 1928 in Essen – September 27, 1998) was a German

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and

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of the

Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

from 1981 to 1992. Kaske studied

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RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

and joined Siemens in 1950, when he became an engineer in the Siemens factory at

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

. Later he was a

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for

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and he continued academic teaching during his following years in Siemens’ development department. In 1975, Kaske became a member of the

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and since 1977 he was director of the

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department. He succeeded Bernhard Plettner as CEO in 1981. He passed the office to

Heinrich von Pierer Heinrich von Pierer (exactly ''Heinrich Karl Friedrich Eduard Pierer von Esch'') (born 26 January 1941 in Erlangen) is a German manager. From 1992 to 2005, he was CEO of Siemens AG. Subsequently, he was chairman of the supervisory board from whic ...

in October 1992.

References

*''Shaping the Future. The Siemens Entrepreneurs 1847–2018.'' Ed. Siemens Historical Institute, Hamburg 2018, .

External links

Presidents and Chief Executive Officers of Siemens AG
1998 deaths 1928 births Engineers from Essen German electrical engineers People from the Rhine Province Siemens people RWTH Aachen University alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich {{Germany-business-bio-stub