People: Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich A. Flegel has been Member of the Supervisory Board and Employee Representative at Daimler AG since 2003. In addition, since 1998, he has been the Company’s Director of Research Materials, Lightweight Design and Manufacturing, at Daimler AG in Stuttgart. Since 2000, he has occupied the post of Chairman of the Management Representative Committee at Daimler Group. He started his business career in 1978 at Daimler-Benz AG as Specialist in factory equipment construction at the Sindelfingen plant. In 1982 was Senior Manager in the Process Engineering department responsible for CAD/CAM development in the Sindelfingen assembly plant, and by 1984 he was responsible for CAD/CAM development for all assembly plants. From 1988 to 1992, he held the position of Director of Mechanical Engineering at the Sindelfingen assembly plant. In 1993 he became Director of Process Engineering. From 1969 he studied Mechanical Engineering at Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen. In 1974 he received a diploma in Mechanical Engineering in the field of Manufacturing Technologies at RWTH Aachen. From 1975 he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Planning and Construction at Universitaet Karlsruhe. In 1979 he received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Applied Computer Science from Universitaet Karlsruhe. In 1990 he received Lectureship of the Faculty for Construction and Manufacturing Technologies at Stuttgart University for the sector Development of tools for sheet-metal forming based on the CAD system CATIA.