Klaus-Michael Kühne

Klaus -Michael Kuehne ( born June 2, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur and manager. He is a Director and majority owner and largest individual shareholder of the international logistics provider Kuehne Nagel and together with his parents founder of the Kuehne Foundation.

Life

The grandson of the company's co-founder August Kuehne and son of the forwarding merchant Alfred Kuehne graduated after high school for two years at a bank a diploma in banking and foreign trade merchant, then he worked with fellow freight forwarders, shipping companies and ship brokers. In 1958 he entered the freight forwarding company, with 26 in 1963 he personally liable partner (general partner) and business partner. Due to the conversion of Kuehne Nagel in a corporation, he was Chairman of the Board in 1966 and moved the company headquarters to Switzerland.

In the time of the first oil crisis in 1970 he tried to build a cruise line company, but got so into financial difficulties and had repeated like to share the shipping in foreign ownership. Later, however, he bought those shares back.

Since 1998, he is no longer CEO, but President and Chief Executive Officer. About the " Kuehne Holding AG ", which is wholly owned by Klaus- Michael Kuehne, he holds a stake of 55.75 percent at the " Kuehne Nagel International AG ".

About the Albert Ballin consortium, he was 2008/2009 co-owner of the shipping company Hapag -Lloyd.

Kuehne married in December 1989, his wife Christine. He lives since 1975 in the Swiss Schindellegistrasse on Lake Zurich, where there is also the headquarters of the company. With an estimated personal fortune of about 9.8 billion U.S. dollars Kuehne is on the list of the richest people in Germany in 2012 ranked 7th and world ranked 95. He is the richest German carrier.

On November 27, 2008, he received an honorary doctorate by the WHU was - Otto Beisheim School of Management awarded.

Work

He is the sole founder of the nonprofit ( foundation under Swiss law), in which he introduces five million Swiss francs, which is to carry the company assets later Kuehne Foundation. Together with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Technical University of Hamburg -Harburg in 2003 founded the Hamburg School of Logistics, which was renamed after a further large donation in 2007 in Kühne School of Logistics and Management and from the finally the Kühne Logistics University emerged. Also, there is a collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin, which finally led to the foundation of discipline International logistics networks. Furthermore, at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management support in Vallendar the " Kuehne - Center for Logistics Management" and the " Kuehne Foundation Endowed Chair of Logistics Management " by the Kuehne Foundation.

2005 Kuehne was inducted into the Logistik Hall of Fame. In 2007 he was honored " for the construction of Elbe Philharmonic sustained commitment to the development and expansion of the logistics Science in Hamburg and its use ," the honorary title of Professor by the Hamburg Senate for his.

Kuehne is also active as an investor at Hamburger SV. For 12.5 million euros in the summer of 2010, he received 33 percent of the transfer rights to the players Dennis Aogo, Dennis Diekmeier, Paolo Guerrero, Marcell Jansen, Lennard Sowah and Heiko Westermann ( " impetus ³ "). In the course of the transfer of Rafael van der Vaart, 2012, loans were provided for the Kühne, Kuehne renounced these transfer rights and received in return a share of the transfer rights to van der Vaart during the contract period.