Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Klaus Wucherer
Born July 9th, 1944 in Germany
Education
Dipl.-lng. Electrical Engineering
Dipl.-lng. Mechanical Engineering Dr.-lngenieur
Professional history (Siemens AG 03/1970 to 12/2007)
1970 Project-Engineer; 1972 Head of Engineering Department (Bremen / Osnabruck)
1983 Head of Sales and Engineering Department (São Paulo, Brazil)
1986 Head of various Divisions: Automations Systems for Machine Tools, Software House, Industrial Communications, Industrial Automation Systems SIMATIC
1996 / 1998 Member / President of the Automation and Drives Group (A&D)
1999 Member of the Corporate Executive Committee of Siemens AG
Responsibility for the groups A&D, I&S, TS; Economic Region Asia and Australia;
Company program top+; Siemens Quality Management; Mentoring of Universities
(Business volume 30 Billion Euros )
Supervisory board positions
Chairman of the board:
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg (to 2011)
Festo AG, Esslingen
Member of the board:
Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (to 2008)
Messe Hannover AG, Hannover (to 2008)
SAP AG, Walldorf
Leoni AG, Nürnberg
Dürr AG, Bietigheim-Bissingen (to 2015)
Heitec AG, Erlangen
Professorships
Honorary professorships:
Technical University of Chemnitz
University of Applied Sciences Osnabruck
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Guest professorships:
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Shandong University, Shandong, China
VDE German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
(Founding member of the IEC)
1998 - 2009 Member of the Supervisory Board of VDE
2003 - 2005 President of VDE
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva
1997 - 2000 Member of the Sector Board for Factory Automation
2000 - 2009 President of the German National Committee of the IEC
2011 - 2013 President of the IEC
Fraunhofer Institut
since 1998 Member of the board of trustees IPK-Berlin
since 2002 Chairman of the board of trustees IPK-Berlin
Distinction
Dr.-lng. E.h. - Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Member of - Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften
Nicolau Award - The International Academy for Production Engineering