Dr. Rüdiger Grube has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG since October 1, 2001, and is responsible for the Corporate Development which includes Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Industrial Participations, IT and since October 1, 2004, responsible for all North East Asia activities of Daimler AG. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS N.V.).

Dr. Grube was born in Hamburg on August 2, 1951. Following commercial/technical training in metal aircraft construction, he studied automotive engineering and aircraft construction at the University for Applied Sciences in Hamburg and graduated as a qualified engineer. He later studied vocational and business teaching at the University of Hamburg. He held a special teaching post in production and engineering at the University of Hamburg from 1981 to 1986. In 1986 he completed a doctorate at the Universities of Hamburg and Kassel in the areas of industrial science and polytechnology. Dr. Grube joined then Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH in 1989, later Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA).