Bernhard Plettner (* 2 December 1914 in upper Lahn stone; "† 2 November 1997 in attaining, Dr. Ing. e.h., engineer, manager/entrepreneur.

Life

Bernhard Plettner studied electro-technology following the attendance of the human High School in Bad Kreuznach at the technical university in Darmstadt. The desire to round its theoretical training off by practical experiences caused it 1937 to interrupt the study and work one term as a work student at the Siemens Schuckertwerke (SSW) in Berlin and

To conclusion of the study the freshbaked engeneering graduate returned 1940 to the SSW department industry to Berlin. Here it was first responsible as planning engineer for planning and the selling of industrie and Energieversorgungsanlagen at home and abroad. After end of war it knew to use its professional experiences for the reconstruction of the export trade. Later the successful Siemens manager took over six years the line of the project engineering departments for the basic industry, which among other things for the building of the metallurgical plant Rourkela in India - which first large export project of the German postwar industry - was responsible. 1959 were appointed Bernhard Plettner into the executive committee of the Siemens Schuckertwerke AG, ordered 1961 as the deputy chairman of the board and 1962 as the chairman of the board. After establishment the Siemens AG it was first member of the executive committee presidency, then deputy and since 1971 chairmen of the board the Siemens AG.

1981 became Plettner as the first Nichtfamilienmitglied of chairmen of the supervisory board; it kept this position until 1988.

Literature

• Bernhard Plettner. In: Wilfried field churches/Eberhard Posner: The Siemens entrepreneurs. Continuity and change 1847-2005. Ten Portraits, Munich 2005, P. 160-175.

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