Rhön-Klinikum

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  • Martin Siebert, Chief Executive Officer
  • Eugen Münch, Chairman of the Board

The Rhön -Klinikum AG is a publicly traded private operator of hospitals, clinics and medical care centers ( MVZ ). The company has a turnover in 2012 of 2.87 (2011: 2.63; 2010: 2.55 ) billion euros generated while a gain of 91.97 (2011: 161; 2010: 145) achieved million euros.

History

Predecessor of the company was founded in 1970 Kurbetriebs and administrative mbH, from 1973 emerged the Rhön- Klinikum GmbH. The company consisted of the in Bad Neustadt an der Saale newly built spa and therapy center, its four 14 -storey houses were equipped exclusively with single apartments. Due to lack of demand, but the house was greatly oversized, so that the company was threatened with bankruptcy by investment of 130 million DM. When taken as a restructuring business economist Eugen Münch took over in 1974, the sole management and acquired a stake of 25 % in the GmbH.

For utilization of the apartments he opened in 1975 and initiated a psychosomatic clinic two years later, a non-profit training project for the training of resettlers. 1984 Münch responded to bottlenecks in the field of cardiac surgery and established a cardiovascular clinic. This was followed by a neurological clinic (1991 ), and a Department of Hand Surgery ( 1992). When planning clinics, the core business was - operating theaters and intensive care units - established in new and used concrete towers as bed houses. The individual apartments are thereby converted into twin rooms.

The limited liability company was founded in 1988 converted into a public limited company with a former capital of DM 10 million and is listed as the first company in the industry on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The IPO took place on 27 November 1989, the company's shares are traded on the MDAX since 1996. This Rhön- Klinikum AG was the first listed hospital group in Germany. The founder of the company family holds today still a significant minority share ( approximately 16 %).

The 1993 opening of an addiction clinic in Leipzig was the first step of the spatial expansion of the company over the previous location in Bad Neustadt addition. In the following years the Rhön -Klinikum AG acquired nationwide more clinics and opened this new. Other milestones of corporate development were

  • The opening of the heart center Leipzig with the status of a university hospital (1994 )
  • The opening of the hospital with 568 beds Meiningen (1995 ) as the first hospital building on " greenfield " in Thuringia since 1990,
  • The commissioning of the world's first robotic surgery tract in the heart center of the University Hospital Leipzig ( 1999),
  • The takeover of University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH (2006 ) as the first privatized University Hospital in Germany (purchase price of 112 million euro ).

At the time of the IPO of Rhön -Klinikum AG, the company had 670 employees, generated a turnover of 50 million euros and had a share capital of DM 10 million ( 5.11 million euros ). In July 2006, more than 30,000 people were employed, the revenue for the first half of 2006, 938.1 million euros and the share capital amounted to 51.84 million euros. 2005 the company generated a profit of 88.3 million euros.

Grown is the Rhön -Klinikum AG in recent years primarily through acquisitions of public houses, which this course is to be continued in the coming years. The aim of the company's founder and longtime chief executive officers Münch is long term gain a market share of eight to ten percent in Germany. However, the Federal Cartel Office in March 2005 ad the takeover of hospitals in Bad Neustadt Saale and Mellrichstadt prohibited in the region because of the resulting dominant market position of the company. About the appeal filed (March 2007) is currently being negotiated.

The logo of the Rhön -Klinikum shows a silver thistle, the symbol plant of the Rhön.

On 26 April 2012, the Fresenius Group announced its intention to buy the Rhön-Klinikum and merge with your own clinic company Helios. The assumption, however, is not initially achieved. Fresenius failed to acquire 90 per cent plus one share. At the end of the period for the tender of shares of rival Asklepios Kliniken purchased just over 5 percent of the shares and prevented the merger of the two companies. In August 2012, announced the Rhön-Klinikum, that the pharmaceutical and medical supplies manufacturer B. Braun Melsungen has acquired 5 percent of the shares in September 2012 announced Fresenius to provide no further bid.

In September 2012, it was announced that CEO Wolfgang Pföhler and CFO Erik Hamann will leave the company after disagreements. Successor Pföhlers since January 2013 Martin Siebert, who is a board member since October 2012.

In March 2013, the Federal Cartel Office has approved the participation of Asklepios at Rhön subject to conditions. Asklepios wants to increase its stake from the current 5.01 to up to 10.1 percent of the Rhön- shares and had filed their plans in August 2012 at the Cartel. The planned increase in the stake Rhön allows Asklepios thereby obtain a veto and a takeover of Rhön by another competitor could be so blocked permanently. In accordance with the requirements Asklepios must, however, first of a clinic and a Medical Care Centre (MCC ) in the space Goslar separate.

In September 2013, the sale of 43 hospitals and 15 medical centers for a purchase price of EUR 3.07 billion at Fresenius was announced, which is subject to antitrust clearance, as well as in the individual case the agreement vormaliger municipal entities and currently a minority shareholder. Rhön will mainly concentrate in the future " to facilities that provide acute medical full supply in the scientific and academic and maximum supply nearby environment. The basis of the ' new Rhön ' are the locations of Bad Berka, Bad Neustadt ad Saale, Frankfurt ( Oder) and the form university hospitals in Gießen and Marburg, with about 5,300 beds. "

On 11 November 2013, a spokesman said the hospital group with the loss of around 130 to 150 of the 220 jobs at the corporate headquarters in Bad Neustadt.

The proposed sale was later reduced to 40 hospitals and 13 medical centers and after the loss of two former HelioS in the Leipzig region, granted the clinics in Borna and Zwenkau, to a company of Eugen Münch by the Federal Cartel Office in February 2014.

Ownership structure

As of August 29, 2012

Management

The company's board currently consists (as of early 2013 ) of four persons, CEO Martin Siebert. He took over this function in 2013 by Wolfgang Pföhler, former Managing Director of the University Hospital Mannheim, who succeeded company founder Eugen Münch 2005.

The Supervisory Board consists of twenty members and is led by Eugen Münch. It consists of, inter alia, Joachim Lüddecke, Chairman of the District Head of Department Verdi Lower Saxony and Brigitte Mohn and Caspar von Haunschild, business consultant. From 1996 to 2002 also sat the later Federal Defence Minister Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU ) in the Supervisory Board. His family held 26.5 percent of the ordinary shares. In March 2002, the shares for 260 million euros were sold to the HypoVereinsbank.

Within the company, the individual hospitals are operated as privately owned and operated as a limited liability or joint-stock company.

Clinics and medical centers Rhön- Klinikum AG

Bavaria

  • Adaptation device " Maria Stern ," Bad Neustadt an der Saale
  • Franken Klinik, Bad Neustadt an der Saale
  • MVZ Bad Neustadt
  • Neurological Clinic, Bad Neustadt an der Saale
  • Rhön -Klinikum AG, Bad Neustadt an der Saale
  • Saaletalklinik, Bad Neustadt an der Saale

Brandenburg

  • Klinikum Frankfurt ( Oder)
  • MVZ Frankfurt ( Oder)

Hesse

  • University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Gießen, formerly Justus -Liebig- University Giessen
  • MVZ casting
  • University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Marburg, formerly Philipps- University of Marburg
  • MVZ Marburg
  • MVZ Marburg II
  • HSK ( Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken GmbH), Wiesbaden

Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

Thuringia

  • Hospital Walter Hausen- Friedrichroda, Friedrichroda
  • MVZ Friedrichroda
  • MVZ Walterhausen
  • Central Clinic Bad Berka GmbH
  • MVZ Weimar
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