Wolfgang Mayrhuber

Wolfgang Mayrhuber (born in Waizenkirchen, Austria, on March 22, 1947) is the Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG. As such, he is responsible for the aviation group, which comprises the Passenger Business, Logistics, MRO, Catering, Leisure Travel and IT Services segments and has about 90,000 employees worldwide. Simultaneously, he heads Lufthansa's passenger airlines. Lufthansa is synonymous with superior technical and aviation expertise, acknowledged service standards and an unparalleled global route network, which the company operates jointly with its Star Alliance partners.

Mayrhuber studied mechanical engineering at the Technical College in Steyr, Austria, and at the Bloor Institute in Canada. In autumn 1990, he completed an Executive Management Training course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber has more than 30 years of service with the Lufthansa Group. He joined the company on February 1, 1970, as an engineer at the engine overhaul facility in Hamburg. After holding a variety of management posts in the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) division, he was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Technical at Lufthansa on November 1, 1992. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Mayrhuber headed the restructuring team charged with engineering Lufthansa’s recovery. Subsequently, he was elected Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik AG when it became an independent company in October 1994 and exercised an influential role in its ongoing evolution into a global supplier of MRO services. The company is currently networked with 25 subsidiaries, worldwide. After six years in that post, Wolfgang Mayrhuber was appointed to the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG on January 1, 2001. On April 1, 2002, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board. At the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2003, he took up his position as Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

In addition to his executive-board responsibilities, Wolfgang Mayrhuber sits on various supervisory boards. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lufthansa CityLine and a member of the supervisory boards of Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG, Munich Re Group (Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG) and BMW Group. At an international level, he is a member of the Board of Directors of HEICO Corp. (Florida/USA).

Mayrhuber was appointed to the Presidents’ Committee of the Association of European Airlines (AEA), as well as to the Board of Governors and the Strategy and Policy Committee (SPC) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).