Heinz Dürr

Heinz Dürr 2013

Heinz Dürr is a German entrepreneur and a major shareholder in the Stuttgart-based engineering firm Dürr AG, founded by his grandfather in 1895. Dürr was born in Stuttgart on 16 July 1933 and, aged 12, attended the National-Political Institute of Learning in Rottweil in 1944–45. He completed his secondary school education in post-war West Germany in 1953.[1]

Dürr was chairman of the board of AEG from 1980 to 1990, and from 1991 he served as executive board chairman of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn, Germany's state-owned railways. When these enterprises were combined and privatized in 1994, Dürr became the first chairman of the board of the new Deutsche Bahn AG, a position he held until 1997.[2] He is credited with the invention of the weekend discount ticket, which led to a notable increase in local railway traffic in Germany.

References

  1. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche.de "Gelobt sei was hart macht" 20 May 2009 (German)
  2. ↑ Executive profile of Heinz Dürr Ing. E.h. at Bloomberg Businessweek

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