Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bruno O. Braun

President and CEO of TÜV Rheinland Group

Cologne/Düsseldorf. Prof. Dr. Bruno O. Braun has been in charge of the TÜV Rheinland Group since 1993. He completely reorganized the group, changing it from a characteristically regional testing organization commissioned by the government into a service provider on the free market. Within this timeframe he integrated TÜV Pfalz, TÜV Berlin Brandenburg and the Motor Vehicle Certification Body of theTÜV Saarland into the group. The LGA in Nuremberg will be integrated and expanded in the course of a PPP (public private partnership).

Today, TÜV Rheinland Group has a business volume of 900 million euro and 11,000 employees, thus belonging to the world’s largest enterprises for safety and quality.

Prof. Dr. Bruno O. Braun, born on August 26, 1942 in Bietigheim (Wuerttemberg), began an apprenticeship to become a mechanic before taking his college entrance exams. He then studied mechanical engineering, earned his doctorate and was promoted to professor. Equipped with a combination of practical and scientific knowledge, he began his career in the industrial sector. For 25 years he has been a member of the board of various incorporated companies and has been their president and CEO for 20 of those years.

He has also volunteered his time to many social and cultural institutions. In addition, Prof. Braun has been an honorary consul of the Republic of Latvia since 1994.

In 2003 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Since May 2007, Prof. Braun has been president of the VDI – the Association of German Engineers representing the interests of roughly one million engineers in Germany.

Here are the key milestones in Professor Braun's career:

1963  Studied Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart (TU)

1968  Graduated in Mechanical Engineering

1972 Awarded doctorate

1976  Habilitation and award of venia legendi "Steam generation technology", Faculty of Energy Engineering, University of Stuttgart

1976  Vereinigte Kesselwerke AG, Düsseldorf
-1980 member of Board of Management

1980  Appointment as supernumerary Professor, Faculty of Energy Engineering, University of Stuttgart

1982  At the same time member of the Board of Management, Deutsche Babcock-Werke AG, Oberhausen

1985  Chairman of the Board of Management of Sempell AG, Korschenbroich

1990  Chairman of the Board of Management of Lentjes AG, Düsseldorf

1993 Chairman of the Board of Management of TÜV Rheinland e.V., Chairman of the Board of Management of TÜV Rheinland Holding AG

1994 Honorary consul of the Republic of Latvia

2005 Chairman of the debelux foreign trade cabinet

2007  President of the VDI