Klaus and Eva Herlitz

Klaus Herlitz ( born September 27, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German entrepreneur.

Biography

Klaus Herlitz was born the son of Edith and Günter Herlitz in Berlin. Since 1972 married to Eva Herlitz ( born 1952 in Solingen ), with whom he has three sons.

1972-1997

After school, business administration degree, diploma and doctorate, he joined his father's business in 1972, the 1977 was converted into a public limited company. Until 1997 he was a member of the Board of Herlitz AG and was responsible for marketing and shopping, but mainly for finance and distribution outside the German-speaking countries.

Herlitz made ​​not only in their own company for an environmentally acceptable range ( inter alia PVC was made of all office and school products eliminated ), he sat this also national and European level in the PBS sector to ( among other things was the chlorine-free bleached Paper Aqua Pro Natura introduced throughout Europe ). For his commitment, he has received several environmental awards, including from the then Federal Environment Minister Angela Merkel.

He established the Herlitz brand in the paper, office and stationery industry. Every year new product ideas have been introduced in the market, including

  • The first fountain pen with erase function, Herlitz Tornado SLS,
  • Of the Museum of Modern Art with an excellent design prize fountain Herlitz Aqua Color 24,
  • The satchel Herlitz Masters,
  • The first school notebooks with cartoon characters.

1997-2001

As president of the Golf and Country Club Lake Seddiner eV succeeds Herlitz together with the Board of Directors, that since 1994, developed by the HypoVereinsbank southwest of Berlin situated golf courses could be purchased in December 2000 by the club members and shareholders. The association and the accompanying Golf and Country Club Seddiner See AG could be rehabilitated, the golf course is one - according to Peugeot Golf Guide - now one of the top 20 in Europe. 2005 appointed the General Assembly Herlitz honorary president of the association.

2001 to date: Buddy Bear

Together with his wife Eva Herlitz 2001 he founded the Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH. On streets and squares of Berlin around 250 bear sculptures were exhibited.

A year later, the first time the idea of ​​the United Buddy Bears was implemented. These represent more than 140 member states of the United Nations. Each bear has been individually designed by an artist from these countries for his country. The artists came from all over the world to Berlin and painted in an open plan studio one sculpture. The variety of forms of artistic expression to reflect the diversity of the people on Earth.

The first two exhibitions of United Buddy Bears found in 2002 and 2003 in Berlin next to the Brandenburg Gate, on the grounds on which, since 2008, the New American Embassy stands instead. As of 2004, followed by exhibitions in the world, including in Hong Kong, Kitzbühel (Tirol ), Istanbul, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Vienna, Cairo, Jerusalem, Warsaw, Pyongyang, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Astana (Kazakhstan ), Helsinki, Sofia, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, St. Petersburg and Paris.

Through donations and auctions of Buddy Bears more than two million euros for UNICEF and various local children's charities both at home and abroad have been met. To be able to quickly and efficiently targeted help in some cases children, was founded in 2004 on the initiative of Eva Herlitz the club Buddy Bear Help.

Awards

  • 2011: Blue Hearts Award
  • 2013: Order of Merit of the Federal State of Berlin

Publications

  • Specialized books / catalogs:
  • Eva and Klaus Herlitz: Buddy Bear Berlin, 56 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038736-4.
  • Eva and Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance, 384 pages, bilingual German / English, 1st Edition December 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029417-4.
  • Eva and Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - World Tour, Neptune Verlag AG, CH -8280 Kreuzlingen, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-85820-189-8 ( 10 digits).
  • Eva and Klaus Herlitz Dr. (eds.): United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance, Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, Berlin, 2nd Edition September 2003 ISBN 3-936962-00-6 ( 10 digits).
  • Eva and Klaus Herlitz: Buddy Bear Berlin Show, Neptune Verlag AG, CH -8280 Kreuzlingen, 2001, ISBN 3-85820-152-9 ( 10 digits).
  • Children's books:
  • Klaus Herlitz: The Buddy Bear and the snow-white elephant, a children's book with illustrations by Manon Kahle, 2010/11, ISBN 978-3-00-032739-1 ( 10 digits).
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