Hilmar Kopper

Hilmar Kopper ( born March 13, 1935 in Oslanin at Puck, Pomerania, today powiat Pucki, Poland ) is a German bank manager and was from 1989 to 1997 CEO of Deutsche Bank.

Life

Kopper was the third of four children of a Mennonite farmer in Pomerania. He started in 1954 as an apprentice at the RWTH Bank AG ( German bank again from 1957 ) and remained there all his working life. In 1969 he became head of the branch Leverkusen, 1977 Member of the Executive Board. After the murder of Alfred Lord Hausen 1989 Kopper was appointed Chief Executive Officer and thereby became one of the most important manager in the German and international banking. His success was clouded by the insolvency of the contractor, Jürgen Schneider, the German bank had granted excessive loans also based on personal relationships. Koppers successor in office in 1997, Rolf -E. Breuer.

Of 17 November 1998 to 4 April 2007, he was Chairman of the Board of Daimler Chrysler; his successor Manfred Bischoff. Chairman of the Board at that time - from May 1995 to December 2005 - Jürgen Schrempp.

In December 2010, Kopper agreed ( in his capacity as Chairman of Supervisory Board of HSH Nordbank ) with then - CEO, HSH Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher a termination agreement. Kopper announced at that time that Nonnenmacher still am entitled to bonuses. He said: " In the old contracts were formulations that have even made me speechless. "

The Schleswig-Holstein FDP parliamentary leader Wolfgang Kubicki said the end of 2012, Kopper had clearly gone too far when settling the compensation of 4 million euros: "Here there is even a suspicion of infidelity. It can not be that HSH Nordbank in the event of conviction, an employee pays millions to whom a crime has been proven. " Hamburg-based criminal lawyer Gerhard Strate saw 2012 as a clear breach of duty Koppers: " The contract preserves only the interests of Mr. Nonnenmacher but not those of the Bank or the countries. "

Kopper has three children from his first marriage, including the historian Christopher Kopper. Kopper broke up in 1999 by his wife Irene; He is in his second marriage in 2003 with Brigitte Seebacher -Brandt ( b. 1946 ), the widow and third wife of Willy Brandt, married.

Kopper was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg conferences.

Beginning January 2013 it was announced that Kopper will resign from his position as Chairman of the Board of HSH Nordbank prematurely. He admitted, according to the Bank no later than February 28, 2013 from his position. Koppers successor to Thomas Mirow.

Others

In winter 2003 Kopper was involved in the play Cologne foreign exchange, a theatrical realization of the events surrounding the collapse of the Cologne-based private bank Herstatt in the 1970s, which was performed in Frankfurt -Bockenheim.

" Peanuts "

Hilmar Kopper designated in 1994 at a press conference the loss amount of approximately DM 50 million, which was incurred by the artisans in charge of real estate bankrupt Jürgen Schneider and who would pay the German bank, as Peanuts. Kopper was referring to the relation to the total claims in the amount of five billion DM ( 1:100). In the German public, the formulation was perceived as arrogant; Peanuts was the word of the year 1994 in the sequence.

The word is a common metaphorical phrase in the English language. The Deutsche Bank was accused of contributory negligence on the billion bankruptcy.

For the advertising campaign " Behind is always a clever head" of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ) was photographed Kopper on a mountain peanuts.

Supervisory Board mandates

  • Akzo Nobel N. V.
  • Daimler -Benz, then DaimlerChrysler AG, now Daimler AG ( Chairman) until April 2007
  • HSH Nordbank (Chairman of the Supervisory Board until February 28, 2013)
  • Solvay S. A.
  • Unilever N. V.
  • Xerox Company, Stamford

Honorary Appointments

  • Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main eV from October 2001 to March 2010.
  • Since September 22, 2010 Honorary Senator of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Works

  • Hilmar Kopper include: The Bank shall not live by money alone. Contributions to culture and society from 1994 to 1997. Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22584-5.
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