Education
From 1982 until 1990 he studied Business Administration and graduated at the Universities of Kiel and Mannheim.
From 1982 until 1990 he studied Business Administration and graduated at the Universities of Kiel and Mannheim.
After studies he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in the automotive, assembly and electronics industry. Hermann Ude continued his career with Deutsche Post as head of the corporate center in 1998. He worked there on a number of restructuring and reorganization projects.
In 2004, his previous positions were combined when he became responsible for a number of large projects namely the pre-merger integration workstream for the acquisition of Exel.
In 2005 he became responsible for the First Choice Service initiative, the group"s 6-sigma program In 2006 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Doctor of Humane Letters Freight, the EUR 3.5 bn roadfreight division of Doctor of Humane Letters. When former Deutsche Post Chief Executive Officer Klaus Zumwinkel resigned in 2008, Ude was appointed to the board of Deutsche Post Doctor of Humane Letters and Chief Executive Officer of the EUR 14 bn Doctor of Humane Letters Global Forwarding Division.
Although he almost doubled the results of his division Ude stepped down from his mandate in 2011 amid diverging views on the future focus of the company. Prior to the German federal election, 2013 in summer, German press reported that Hermann Ude allegedly tried to coerce Peer Steinbrück, the social-democratic candidate for the German chancellorship.
Only days after the election the attorney closed the investigation initiated by Steinbrück as no indication for an offence could be foundation
