Date or birth: 15 September 1939
Studied electrical engineering and economics in Munich, Hanover and Cologne
1967: Graduated in Business Administration
1967: Joined his father's company
1973-2015: Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board of the HARTING Technology Group
since 2015: Member of the Board, Partner of the HARTING Technology Group
Hon. Dr Eng. Dietmar Harting
Member of the Board, Partner
Through active collaboration in a multitude of organisations and associations, HARTING provides decisive impetus.
Association of the Electrical and Digital Industry e. V. (ZVEI)
since 2004 for life: Honorary President
since May 2003: Honorary Chairman of the trade association 23 (Electronic Components and Systems / ECS)
Association for Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (VDE)
since October 2006: Honorary member
German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE (DKE)
since 2010: Honorary Chairman
State Board of Trustees of the German Industry Association for the Promotion of Sciences in NRW (North Rhine Westphalia)
since September 2010: Personal member
Exhibitor Advisory Board of the Hannover Messe
since October 2014: Honorary member
Leading-edge cluster it's OWL
since September 2011: Member of the Cluster Board
Former honorary positions
Exhibitor Advisory Board of the Hannover Messe
1997-2014: Chairman of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board of the Hannover Messe, from January 1997 to October 2014
Deutsche Messe AG
1996-2014: Member of the Supervisory Board (Deputy Chairman from 2002)
2002-2014: Member of the Executive Committee
Munich Trade Fair Centre
2003-2004: Member of the exhibitor advisory board
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
2008-2009: President of CENELEC
German Institute for Standardisation (DIN)
2003-2009: President
1998: Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon
2004: Cross of Merit 1st Class of Lower Saxony
2008: Golden Trade Fair Medal from Deutsche Messe AG
2009: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
2009: DIN Ring of Honour
2009: Honorary citizen of the town of Espelkamp
2010: Honorary doctorate from Leibniz University Hanover
2010: DKE pin in gold
2013: Erich Gutenberg Award
2019: Karmarsch Medal of the Leibniz University Society Hanover
2021: "Lifetime achievement" award as part of the "Manager of the Year" election, specialist medium "Markt&Technik"