Not many people have had influence in the global automotive industry as Dieter Zetsche.
For 13 years, he was the chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
He was born in Turkey while his civil engineer father, Herbert Zetsche, temporarily relocated there for a dam construction project. The family later returned to Germany when Dieter was three years old. Zetsche was appointed as chairman of Daimler AG on January 1, 2006 and was the main influence behind the demerger of Daimler and Chrysler in 2007, which ended in the newly formed Daimler AG.
Revived in 2002, the brand was supposed to be the ultimate in driving luxury and compete with other high-end brands like Rolls Royce. In the end, only around 3,000 Maybachs were sold and the last one was made in December 2012. “Of course, when you’re standing in the sunshine, it’s nice, but when you’ve been through the storm, that’s when you grow and you learn.”Zetsche is not the type of person to rest. Just a few days after retiring from Daimler AG, he was named as the chairman of Tourism Union International AG, popularly known as TUI AG.
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