AUDI AG Board of ManagementFrank Dreves

Dipl.-Ing. Frank Dreves is Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG with responsibility for Production.

Board Member for Production

Frank Dreves was born in Höxter on 15 August 1952.

After training as a mechanical fitter, he qualified in 1976 for entrance to a university of applied sciences, and studied mechanical engineering from 1976 to 1981 in Paderborn.

In 1982 Dreves joined AUDI AG as a technical specialist in the foundry and hardening shop. He moved to assembly equipment production planning in 1985 and was appointed Group Leader there a year later.

In 1987 Dreves became Head of Product Planning at Seat in Barcelona.

From 1992 on he was Head of Assembly Equipment Production Planning at AUDI AG and became Head of Bodyshell Production Planning in 1995.

He was asked to supervise the development of the plant in Curitiba (Brazil) in 1997.

From 2000 onwards, Dreves was in charge of the Body Construction and Assembly production areas in Ingolstadt, and in mid-2001 assumed responsibility for Overall Planning in the Audi Group.

He was Plant Manager at the Ingolstadt plant from 1 October 2004.

Frank Dreves assumed responsibility as Board Member for Production at AUDI AG as of 1 February 2007.