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Encyclopedia > Wendelin Wiedeking
Wendelin Wiedeking, Current President and CEO of Porsche.
Wendelin Wiedeking, Current President and CEO of Porsche.

Dr. Ing. Wendelin Wiedeking (August 28, 1952 in Ahlen, Germany) is (since 1991) member of the executive committee, (since 1992) the executive committee speaker, and (since 1993) the CEO of Porsche AG. In addition he is (since January 28, 2006) member in the supervisory board of Volkswagen and president of Porsche. He is considered by many as one of the most influential people in the automotive industry today. Image File history File linksMetadata Wendelin_Wiedeking. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Wendelin_Wiedeking. ... August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ahlen is a town of around 55. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Volkswagen (pronounced folksvagen; meaning: peoples car; also known as VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany in the State of Lower Saxony. ... The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... Automakers are companies that produce automobiles. ...

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Life before Porsche

Wiedeking grew up in Beckum, Germany and attended RWTH in Aachen. After graduation 1978, he remained at RWTH for graduate school, in order to attain a doctorate in engineering. He earned his doctorate in 1983. Beckum is a town and a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... RWTH Aachen University is a large university located in Aachen (Germany). ... Aachen (French Aix-la-Chapelle, Dutch Aken, Latin Aquisgranum, Ripuarian Oche) is a spa city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km to the west of Cologne, and the westernmost city in Germany. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... A graduate school or grad school is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelors) degree. ... Bold text Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


With Porsche

He came to Porsche 1991 and became a member of the board for production and stock management. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


After years guidance by Wiedeking, Porsche has become one the most productive companies in the automobile industry (in terms of revenue per unit). Wiedeking again and again is a candidate for the guidance of larger automakers (such as Ferdinand Piëch’s successor at Volkswagen). Wiedeking has received numerous honors for his work at Porsche. Among other things Wiedeking, in 2003, was awarded a medal for “humor in the office”. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ferdinand Piëch (born April 17, 1937 in Vienna) is an automobile engineer and manager. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Wendelin Wiedeking can be considered as example of a successful manager, when he develops his own management style suitable to the product. Wiedeking has apperared several times in an annually recurring article of Motor Trend titled "The Power List". The article ranks the most influential people in the automotive world; in the 2005 article he was ranked as #6, while in the 2006 article he was ranked as #3. Motor Trend is one of the oldest automotive magazines still publishing. ...


Wiedeking criticizes the tendency in Germany to notice only negative and to almost look for it.


Honors

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Quotes

Note: these quotations were translated from German, so they are subjects of slight distortion.

  • "When one is dishonest here, it undermines all the reliability of our political and economic bases, and is more dangerous than the system criticism of the [nineteen-]eighties and [nineteen-]sixties."
  • "In the social free-market economy we must find a reconciliation between capital and work, and many enterprises miss this effort today.”
  • "If size did matter, the dinosaurs would still be alive."

A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ...

Citations

  • Ulrich Viehöver: Der Porsche Chef. Wendelin Wiedeking - mit Ecken und Kanten an die Spitze. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003. ISBN 3-593-37207-X. Review in Die Welt of October 13, 2003)

External Links

  • Wiedeking on "The Power List"
  • Business Week Interview with Wiedeking (June 28, 2004)


 

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