Ludwig Kronthaler

Dr. Ludwig Kronthaler is a Secretary General at Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV.
He began his career at the Augsburg City tax office before moving on to the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance.
He later spent two years heading a tax office before taking up a post in 1995 as a financial expert at the Bavarian State Representative Office in Bonn.
In September 2005, Dr. Kronthaler was appointed as a judge at the Federal Fiscal Court.
Two years later in May 2007, he took leave from his judicial post in order to assume the position of Director of Resource Management and Industrial Affairs at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris.
His tasks included human resources, finance, procurement, industrial policy and corporate controlling.
Dr. Kronthaler was the candidate of choice for the ESA. Based on his experience gained at the TU Munich with the integration of SAP software systems in the universities accounting systems, he was chosen to implement the financial reforms planned by the ESA. He subsequently went on to successfully introduce reforms of the procurement and pension systems as well.