Hartmut Mehdorn
Hartmut Mehdorn (born 31 July 1942 in Warsaw) is a German manager and current CEO of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), the owner and future operator of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. He served as CEO of Germany's second largest airline Air Berlin until he stepped down in January 2013. Until May 2009 he served as CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG, Germany's biggest railway company.
Education
After studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, he joined the construction development section of Focke-Wulf in Bremen.
Career
From 1966 to 1978, Mehdorn worked for what later became known as the "Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke-Fokker GmbH", his last position being that of production head at the "Nordwerke" of MBB (Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm). From 1979 to 1984, he was a member of the management of Airbus Industrie S.A. in Toulouse, France, where he was responsible for production, purchasing, and quality assurance. Between 1984 and 1989, Mehdorn was head of the 'MBB Transport- und Verkehrsflugzeuge' group in Hamburg and from 1985 was also a member of the MBB management team in Munich.