Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> July 17, 2000

Carl Von Gablenz – Cargolifter Ag (cglgn.de)

DR CARL VON GABLENZ is Chairman of the Executive Board of CargoLifter AG, a project which he co-initiated and whose activities he has co- ordinated since its inception. After obtaining his doctorate in Legal Studies (1982), Dr von Gablenz worked in the financial and corporate advisory divisions of the Bayerische Regionalbank, before switching in 1986 to the mechanical engineering division in the industry sector, where he was responsible for finance, administration and inventory management. In 1993-94, he accepted a visiting professorship in the department of logistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where along with other projects he developed the logistics theory for a new freight transport system. Dr von Gablenz is married with three sons and one daughter. Profile
TWST: Let's start with the company profile, because Cargolifter is

rather an unusual company. Can you give me some of the history behind

the creation of the company and talk me through the