Heinrich von Pierer

Heinrich von Pierer (born 1941 in Erlangen) is a German manager who ran the engineering group Siemens as its chief executive from 1992 to 2005. He studied law and economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, took his law doctorate in 1968 and joined Siemens in 1969. From 1977 he worked at its power generation subsidiary Kraftwerk Union, became president of that unit in 1989 and joined the managing board of Siemens in the same year. In 1992 he succeeded Karlheinz Kaske as chief executive, and after handing the post to Klaus Kleinfeld in January 2005 he chaired the supervisory board until he resigned on 25 April 2007. He also sat on the supervisory boards of Bayer and Volkswagen and helped found the German industry Asia-Pacific Committee in 1993.