Manfred Balz

Member of the Board of Management Deutsche Telekom AG for Data Privacy, Legal Affairs and Compliance

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Manfred Balz.

Manfred Balz, born 1944, was appointed Board member responsible for Data Privacy, Legal Affairs and Compliance at Deutsche Telekom AG on October 22, 2008. The new Board department was established on the recommendation of the Board of Management in order to firmly embed in particular the topics of data privacy and data security at the top management level. Prior to his appointment to the Board of Management, Manfred Balz, who holds a doctorate in law, had been General Counsel at Deutsche Telekom since 1997.

After studying law at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, St. Petersburg und Harvard University in Boston, Balz worked at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg from 1969 to 1970. Following research periods in Leningrad and Moscow and at Harvard Law School, he began his career at the German Federal Ministry of Justice in 1974.

He also worked as General Counsel of the Treuhandanstalt Berlin from 1990 to 1993 and as a partner at the international law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering from 1993 to 1997.