President and Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Board of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz e.V.
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Dieter Spath has been President and CEO of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz e.V. since July 1, 2021. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board and the Personnel Committee of TÜV Rheinland AG. Professor Spath (born 1952) was President of acatech - the German Academy of Science and Engineering - until March 2021. In addition to his scientific career, Professor Spath has sustained practical industrial experience. In the years from 2013 to 2016, he was Chairman of the Executive Board of Wittenstein SE.
| 1971 - 1975 | Studied mechanical engineering, specializing in production engineering and manufacturing technology at the Technical University of Munich |
| 1976 - 1981 | Scientific assistant and academic advisor at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management at the Technical University of Munich (iwb) |
| 1981 | Doctorate "Performance-limiting influencing variables on metal band sawing machines". |
| 1981 | Joined the KASTO group of companies |
| 1985 | Authorized representative for electrical engineering, EDP organization and sales as well as Chairman of Board of the American subsidiary KASTO Racine Inc. |
| 1988 | Managing Director of the KASTO group of companies |
| 1992 | Appointment as full professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Institute for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (wbk) |
| 1996 - 1998 | Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH) |
| 1996 - 2001 | Member of the Senate Committee and the Grants Committee for Collaborative Research Centers at the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 1999 | Appointment at the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management, successor to Professor Milberg (not accepted) |
| 2002 | Appointment as Professor for Technology Management and Work Science at the University of Stuttgart combined with the appointment as Institute Director IAT of the University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer IAO. |
| 2003 | Elected to acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering e.V. |
| 2007 | Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich |
| 2008 | Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for outstanding services to science, business and society in the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2008 - 2009 | Dean of the Faculty of Design, Production and Automotive Engineering at the University of Stuttgart |
| 2009 - 2012 | Vice President acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering e.V. |
| 2002 - 2013 | Director of Fraunhofer IAO and IAT University of Stuttgart |
| 2013 | Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) |
| 2013 - 2016 | Chairman of the Management Board of Wittenstein SE |
| since October 1, 2016 | Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO and the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart |
| 2017 - 2021 | President acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering e.V. |
| since 20 June, 2017 | Member of the Supervisory Board of TÜV Rheinland AG |
| since 10 April, 2019 | Member of the Personnel Committee of TÜV Rheinland AG |
| since 1 July, 2020 | Member of the Board of Management of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz e.V. |
| since July 1, 2021 | President and Chief Executive Officer of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz e.V. |