New member appointed to Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s Advisory Board

Munich, 17 November 2014 – With immediate effect, Professor Dr Rudolf F. Schwarz will represent industry member IABG in Bauhaus Luftfahrt´s Advisory Board. In a meeting held in Munich this past Friday, the Chairman of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft (IABG) for the first time took part in proceedings of the interdisciplinary research institution’s main steering committee. In his new position he succeeds Matthias Spott, who has represented IABG in the Advisory Council since the company became a member of Bauhaus Luftfahrt in January 2012.

With Professor Schwarz, another high-ranking leader of the German aerospace industry opted to strengthen the Advisory Board of Bauhaus Luftfahrt. Professor Schwarz studied Engineering at Technische Universität München (TUM) from 1970 to 1974. In 1979 he completed his dissertation on risk assessment of randomly stressed structures at the TUM-Institute of Structural Engineering. Since 1998 he is a lecturer in experimental aircraft and lightweight construction at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TUM. From 1981 to 2002, Professor Schwarz held several leading positions at IABG in Ottobrunn before he became the company´s principal shareholder in 2002.

“On behalf of my colleagues in the Advisory Board, I like to thank Matthias Spott for his outstanding achievements and I cordially welcome Professor Schwarz to our committee,” states Dr Detlef Müller-Wiesner, Chairman of the Advisory Board. “I am looking forward to working together with Professor Schwarz and I am convinced that, based on his extra-ordinary technical expertise in line with several decades of industry experience, he will provide many valuable impulses for the strategic future development of Bauhaus Luftfahrt.”

The Advisory Board of Bauhaus Luftfahrt consists of five representatives. The charter members Airbus Group, Liebherr-Aerospace, MTU Aero Engines as well as the Free State of Bavaria each delegate one representative. Additional representatives are elected from the ranks of all other sustaining members, actually IABG, by the general meeting of members. Similar to a company’s Supervisory Board, Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s Advisory Board acts as a controlling and consulting body for its Executive Directors.