Peter Hartz
Peter Hartz ( born August 9, 1941 in St. Ingbert ) is a former German manager. He was until July 2005 the Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Board of Volkswagen AG. According to him, known as Hartz concept job market reforms of the early 2000s were named. Peter Hartz is a member of the SPD and the IG Metall.
Life
Peter Hartz grew up as the youngest of three sons of a metallurgical worker in Saarland Niederwürzbach. After his middle ripe 1955 he was trained as an industrial clerk at the Th Jansen -Armaturen GmbH in St. Ingbert. After military service (today he is captain dR ) and his second-chance education followed in 1965 a three-year study of business administration at the University of Applied Sciences of the Saarland ( HTW ) in Saarbrücken. He completed his studies with a degree in Business Administration ( FH). Peter Hartz still lives in the Saarland, is married and has a son.
Hartz is founder and board member of the SHS Foundation, a foundation with the goal of connecting all Saar countries around the world. His brother Kurt Hartz ( born 1935 ) was from 1980 to 1999 deputy in the Saarland parliament for the SPD. His second brother Rudi Hartz is medium-sized company and was from 1983 to 1999 Manager of handball club TV Niederwürzbach.
From the University of Trier Hartz received in 1994 an honorary doctorate. 2004, he was the Saarland Prime Minister Peter Müller of the title of Professor hc awarded.
2002 Peter Hartz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class. This he has returned voluntarily after his final conviction for embezzlement end of August 2007 and declared his resignation and is therefore pre-empted a possible but identification method.
Career
Hartz led several Saarland as well as international companies. He was chief of staff of the Dillinger Hütte. In parallel, he initiated community projects and thus secured the employees work or he cared for socially responsible workforce reduction in the steel industry. He is also considered the initiator of the German steel foundation.
From 1993, Hartz was personnel director at Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg. Here he developed projects such as the four-day week, or 5,000 × 5,000. The project 5000 × 5000 meant that Volkswagen hired 5,000 new workers, which were not paid by the applicable collective agreement, but gross every 5,000 DM per month earned.
To greater awareness Hartz came in early 2002, when he was commissioned by the federal government with the development of labor market reforms. He did this together with the eponymous Hartz Commission, which has developed under his leadership also named after him Hartz concept. Some of his proposed measures, however, were not implemented.
From the VW supervisory board, he was entrusted the Board with the coordinating responsibility for South America and South Africa 2003.
Since March 2010 he is head of the project initiated by him Minipreneure.
Misappropriation of company funds
He is regarded as a friend of the former Škoda Manager Helmuth Schuster, was determined against since July 2005 for embezzlement and fraud under the VW corruption scandal. On 8 July 2005, he offered to resign after it had been speculated in the press repeatedly over a complicity Hartz '. On 13 July 2005, the four -member steering committee of the VW supervisory board unanimously recommended to accept the resignation offer by Peter Hartz, as Personnel Director. Hartz, however, was not granted any severance pay. Since his retirement from the Board, he refers an age-related pension. The officers were at that time the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Ferdinand Piech, the former prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of the Metalworkers Union Juergen Peters and the Chairman of the General Works Council of Volkswagen AG Bernd Osterloh.
On 7 October 2005, the Brunswick Public Prosecutor stated to initiate an investigation against Hartz on suspicion of infidelity.
On October 9, 2006 Peter Hartz should have added towards the Braunschweiger senior public prosecutor Hildegard Wolff that he has a decade the former council chairman Klaus Volkert " favors ". Apparently without the knowledge of the former CEOs Ferdinand Piëch and other top managers of the VW Group Hartz paid to Volkert between 1995 and 2005 every year a " special bonus " of 200,000 euros - thus totaling two million euros. To the system of benefits is said to have also heard that Hartz Brazilian lover of Volkert, Adriana Barros, gave an additional income. For a long time they should have received 7,600 euros per month - a total of 399,000 euros.
On 15 November 2006 it was announced that a criminal breach of trust was opened as the VW board in 44 cases against Peter Hartz in Braunschweig. January 17, 2007 Hartz admitted in scheduled for two days of the trial court hearing an all 44 charges. The total damage dealt by this bribery scandal is 2.6 million euros, of which Hartz had paid almost two million euros to the then head of the works council, Klaus Volkert. The District Court of Braunschweig followed the requests of prosecutors and defenders and imposed on 25 January 2007 for breach of trust and abetting the VW works council boss a prison sentence of two years, which was suspended, and a fine of 360 daily rates a € 1,600 ( for a total of 576,000 € ). As part of the sentencing full confession was taken into account in mitigation of punishment. Was on the examination of a number of witnesses, due to the fully comprehensive confession, be dispensed with.
The rapid end of the process has been criticized in newspaper comments. After the Saxon newspaper of 18 January 2007 it was " lacking instinct, to make plea bargaining ' already at startup ". Even the word witness a lack of feeling for the social significance of this process.
As the author
- Each workstation has a face. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-89843-071-5.
- The breathing business. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35542-6.
- Job Revolution. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-593-35110-2.