Jürgen L. Born

Jürgen Ludger Born ( * September 24, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German banker and was chairman of the board or management of Werder Bremen.

Biography

Education and work

Born studied after high school economics in Hamburg. Since 1967 he works as a Diplom-Kaufmann at Deutsche Bank in Stuttgart and Hamburg. He was since 1969 in the bank working for the South American business and that from 1969 to 1977 in Buenos Aires from 1978 to 1979 in Frankfurt, London and New York, from 1979 to 1986 in Asunción, from 1986 to 1994 in Montevideo and 1994-1999 in São Paulo. He was up to the retreat of the German Bank Group Chairman of the branches in Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil.

For many years was Born also President of the German Chamber of Commerce, among others in Paraguay and Uruguay. Since 2000 he has been Honorary Consul of Uruguay in Bremen. Further, he held honorary positions in South America in German schools, German clubs and various social institutions.

Time at Werder Bremen

From 1 July 1999, Born became honorary chair the Board or management of Werder Bremen, whose supervisory board he informed in writing on 22 January 2009, after the end of the season 2008/ 09 his cooperation as a first step for the restructuring / rejuvenation of management to want to quit the club.

In March 2009, an attempt was made on the basis of in itself indecisive, copied, manipulated and partly also stolen documents, among other things, involve the extortion of Carlos Delgado, husband of the documents offering woman Faré in Lima (Peru ), as well as eleven other persons at Bayern Munich, Chelsea FC (London), Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen served, Jürgen Born in irregularities against Werder Bremen. The relevant allegations, the Born prompted for the protection of the image of the club for voluntary early resignation from his post on 13 March 2009, proved by a neutral testing report by the auditor appointed by Werder PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC ) as groundless.

Werder Bremen adopted Born September 8, 2009 in the presence of, inter alia, the bodies of the clubs, sponsors and representatives of sport and handed him a lifetime pass for the VIP rank - platinum in Bremen's Weser Stadium.

Born in 2011 received at the Weser Stadium, the Golden Badge of Honour of the Association for his ten-year honorary chairman activity at Werder.