Edzard Hans Wilhelm Reuter was the CEO of Daimler-Benz from 1987 to 1995. Edzard Reuter was born in Berlin, his father was the popular social democratic politician and mayor of Berlin from 1948 to 1953, Ernst Reuter. His mother Hanna Reuter n�e Kleinert was a secretary at the party newspaper Vorw�rts. After the Machtergreifung of the NSDAP, the family was forced to flee Germany and they found exile in Ankara, Turkey. So Reuter spent much of his childhood in Turkey. In 1946, Edzard joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After returning to Germany in 1947, Edzard Reuter studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, later transferring to the Georg August University of G�ttingen. In 1949, he switched over to studying law at the newly founded Free University of Berlin. In 1955, Reuter completed his state examinations. From 1954 to 1956, he was an assistant at the university. After applying for a job for Daimler-Benz and failing, Edzard Reuter became confidential clerk for UFA, the German film studio and then an executive for Bertelsmann, a media corporation. 

February 16th, 1928 in Berlin  /  Died:   Oct 27th, 2024