Bernhard Plettner

Dr. Ing. e.h. Bernhard Plettner (December 2, 1914 in Oberlahnstein – November 2, 1997 in Erlangen) was a German engineer and manager. From 1971 to 1981 he was CEO of Siemens AG.

Plettner studied electrical engineering in Darmstadt. After an internship in 1937 he returned to Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin in 1940. After World War II Plettner was especially engaged in restoring the export relations of the firm. Plettner became a member of the board of directors of Siemens-Schuckertwerke in 1959 and CEO of this company in 1962. After the merging of Siemens-Schuckertwerke with Siemens & Halske AG he was a member of the board of directors of Siemens AG. In 1971 he was appointed CEO. When he was succeeded by Karlheinz Kaske in 1981, Plettner became the first chairman of the supervisory board not to be a member of the Siemens family. He resigned in 1988.

References

Wilfried Feldenkirchen / Eberhard Posner, The Siemens Entrepreneurs, Continuity and Change, 1847–2005, Ten Portraits, Munich, 2005.

External links

Siemens AG Official website

Preceded by Gerd Tacke	CEO of Siemens AG 1971 – 1981	Succeeded by Karlheinz Kaske

Siemens

Divisions and
subsidiaries

Current	Energy Sector Siemens Wind Power Industry Sector Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments Siemens Mobility Siemens PLM Software Siemens Financial Services Siemens Healthineers Siemens Canada Siemens Mexico Siemens Pakistan

Former and defunct	Acuson Corporation¹ C. A. Parsons and Company¹ Dispolok² Helios AG² Infineon Technologies² Osram ² Roke Manor Research² Siemens Communications¹ Siemens Dematic² Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices² Siemens Hearing Instruments² Siemens IT Solutions and Services² Siemens Mobile² Siemens VAI¹ Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme² Siemens Plessey² Siemens VDO² Wincor Nixdorf² ROLM¹

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

Current	A2SEA (49%) AREVA NP (34%) Atos (15%) German Shanghai Metro Group Primetals Technologies (49%) Siemens Saudi Arabia

Former and defunct	BiiN BSH Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Gaggenau NEFF Eurotrain Fujitsu Siemens Computers Krauss-Maffei Nokia Siemens Networks (49.9%) Siemens Matsushita Components Unify GmbH & Co. KG (49%)

Predecessors

Products, services
and projects

Current	FINEX Locomotives Multiple units Siemens Modular Metro Siemens Inspiro Software products Tram vehicles Mobility projects

Defunct	Elektrische Viktoria Mobile phones Simatic S5 PLC SIMpad

People

Places

Other

¹Now integrated into other Siemens divisions or business groupings ²Sold

Category
Commons

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 35515244 LCCN: n94108011 GND: 128693290

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