Heinz Dürr

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Heinz Dürr (b. July 16, 1933 in Stuttgart) is a German entrepreneur and stockholder of the Stuttgart-based Dürr AG.

He was chairman of the board at AEG from 1980 to 1990. From 1991 on, he was president of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Director-General of the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR. When these state-owned enterprises became the new, private Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994, he became the first chairman of the board of the new enterprise, a position he kept until 1997. Heinz Dürr is credited with the invention of the weekend discount ticket, which led to a notable increase in local railway traffic in Germany.

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 2006-12-17.

Persondata
NAME	Dürr, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Business entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	N/A
PLACE OF DEATH	N/A