Kurt Joachim Lauk

Kurt Joachim Lauk (born 19 May 1946) is a German businessman and former politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg from 2004 until 2009. Early life and career Lauk has an MA in history and theology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kiel in Germany. Career Between 1978 and 1984, Lauk led Boston Consulting Group's German practice. He was deputy chief executive officer and chief financial o(with responsibility for finance, controlling and marketing) of Audi AG between 1989 and 1992. Ten months after the trans-Atlantic merger that created DaimlerChrysler A.G. in 1999, Lauk, then the head of Daimler's truck division, stepped down along with Thomas T. Stallkamp, CEO of Chrysler, and Heiner Tropitzsch, Daimler’s personnel chief. Lauk is the co-founder and president of Globe CP GmbH, a private investment firm established in 2000.