Erwin Staudt (born February 25, 1948, in

Leonberg Leonberg (; ) is a town in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg about to the west of Stuttgart, the state capital. About 45,000 people live in Leonberg, making it the third-largest borough in the rural district () of Böblingen (afte ...

) is a former president of

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German professional sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's Association football, football team is currently part of Germany's f ...

. Staudt had studied economy and was manager at

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. He was elected as president of

on 26 June 2003. On 17 July 2011 he did not participate again in the election of the president.

Career at IBM

Staudt joined in IBM Germany in 1973. In 1982, he took his first job in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

as a manager, where he worked as Sales Manager in charge of the

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

customers in the areas of Financial Management, Social and Energy Supply. Later he held the positions of Head of Marketing in the head office as well as the Assistant Director of Marketing and Services. 1986 Staudt became head of the Berlin branch of

, 1989, he took over as Executive Vice President as Head of Communications / Public Relations at the headquarters of

Germany. From July 1992, he was responsible for the entire German PC business. In 1994 Staudt changed his position to Sales and was appointed to

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of IBM Germany Informationssysteme GmbH. In October 1994, Staudt went as General Manager for Competitive Marketing, then as Vice President of marketing to the European headquarters of

in Paris. He was responsible for the global operations "basic industries" and "Petroleum" from July 1995 to October 1998. From November 1, 1998, to January 14, 2003, Erwin Staudt was the

of IBM Germany.

External links

Profile at vfb.de
1948 births German football chairmen and investors Living people VfB Stuttgart people People from Leonberg Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-sport-bio-stub