Ernst von Freyberg
Conrad Ernst Rudolf von Freyberg -Eisenberg ( born October 26, 1958 in Geneva ) is a German manager. Since February 26 2013, he is President of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( IOR ) and was 1 July to 30 November 2013 also their Director General ad interim.
Family
From Freyberg comes from the Swabian noble family of Freyberg -Eisenberg. He is the eldest of three sons from the marriage of Ulrich von Freyberg -Eisenberg and Brita Gertrud Blohm. His uncle Georg von Freyberg -Eisenberg.
Ernst von Freyberg married 14 May 2011 in Preuilly monastery, the French banker Elisabeth Marie Bernadette Montagne.
Life
Training
Freyberg studied between 1978 and 1985 law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University Bonn, and 1986/87 at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He was a law clerk at the District Court Ulm. In 1988, he put his second state exam at the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart.
Professional Activities
Career in the private sector
From 1988 to 1991 he was responsible for the TCR Europe Limited and Three Cities Research, Inc., investment companies of the South American beverage company Bemberg Group ( known primarily through the Quilmes Brewery ), active in London and New York. In 1991 he co-founded the consulting firm Close Brothers GmbH, where he served until December 2012 as CEO. This was bought by the Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities SMBC in 2009 and now operates under the name of Daiwa Corporate Advisory GmbH.
Since 2012 von Freyberg Chairman of the Hamburg shipyard Blohm Voss. In addition, s / he was a member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards, including the Malteser gGmbH Germany, asset management Flossbach von Storch AG and the IT service provider Magirus AG.
Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( IOR )
On February 15, 2013 were of Freyberg, with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI. of the Commission of Cardinals of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( IOR ) to the Supervisory Board president (Presidente del Consiglio di National Trust ) of the IOR appointed. He took over from interim president Ronaldo Schmitz. Because of his involvement in the Blohm Voss shipyard, which produces among other naval vessels, his appointment was commented isolated critical. After the resignation of the Director General Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli took over from Freyberg on 1 July 2013 as acting, the office of the Director General. On November 30, 2013 were replaced by Freyberg as Director General by the newly appointed Rolando Marranci.
When his two main tasks considered by Freyberg to create transparency within the structures and procedures of the IOR and criminal operations such as money laundering and tax evasion, which the financial institution has been placed in the past repeatedly in connection to enlighten and to stop if necessary. In this regard, stresses from Freyberg that he has a zero - tolerance policy against these offenses.
Management of own assets
Ernst von Freyberg is the administrator of the family-owned forestry in Baden- Württemberg and co-owner of Castle Allmendingen.
Others commitment
He is a Knight of Malta and, as such, among other things, active in the accompaniment of pilgrimages to Lourdes as well as treasurer of the German Association of the Order of Malta.