Krack has followed a similar career path to McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl, having worked with BMW in F1 early in his career before gaining experience in other categories.
He joined Sauber in 2001 and rose to the position of chief engineer in the works BMW era, and thus spent some time working with current Aston river Sebastian Vettel.
He left Sauber in 2009 and had spells in F3 and the DTM before joining the Porsche WEC team as head of track engineering in 2012, working alongside Seidl.
He returned to BMW in an engineering role in 2014, rising to the position of head of race and test engineering, operations and organisation in 2018.
Krack will work under the direction of team owner Lawrence Stroll and Group CEO Martin Whitmarsh, who was appointed late last year.
Marcin Budkowski, whose departure from Alpine was announced yesterday, had earlier been linked with an Aston role.
“Aston Martin is one of the greatest automotive brands in the world,” said Krack.
“And to have been asked…
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