Werner Gerich
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Gerich was born and died at Mannheim. He worked as a quality control inspector at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology before his retirement. At the age of 65, he joined the Senior Experten Service (SES) based in Bonn. In 1984 he was sent as an expert to the Chinese city of Wuhan, where he first served as a consultant on assembly and quality control at a state-run diesel motor factory, and later as its general director.[1][2] Gerich was the first foreign factory director in China since the Revolution of 1949.[2] In his two years as director, he renewed the run-down factory through drastic reforms and brought about technical improvements to its diesel engines.[5]
