Reinhard Pöllath

Reinhard Pöllath ( born January 15, 1948 in Marktredwitz ) is a German business lawyer, manager and honorary professor.

Life

Pöllath comes from a family in Upper Franconia, which operated a carpentry since the 17th century. He put 1967 in Marktredwitz the Abitur. After military service, he studied from 1969 to 1973 Law at the University of Regensburg and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. Subsequently, he received a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German people, with whose support he to 1974 a program of study completed at Harvard Law School to the master.

In 1977 he was admitted as a lawyer and worked as a lawyer in Munich, also in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. From 1993 he was a partner of a law firm in Munich until 1997 and managing director of a real estate and hotel business. Along with other attorneys he founded in 1997 colleagues, P P Pöllath Partners; the firm has offices in Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt. He specializes in advising family, corporate acquisition, succession and wealth, international and German tax law, trusts and foundations, as well as pro bono activities. So he advises about the Quandt family.

He is best known as an advisor of the family heart, as interim chief offered him by disputes of heirs in 2002 the Supervisory Board chair of Tchibo Holding AG. He served as the successor to Jens Odewald for 13 months The Office.

In 2006 he became the dissertation business transfer. Succession or sale doctorate as an entrepreneurial organization task.

In 2007 he took over after the death of Erich Schumann the management of the Brost Holding, which holds 50 percent of the WAZ media group.

He is Chairman of the Maxingvest AG (formerly Tchibo Holding AG) and Beiersdorf AG. He was Chairman of Escada SE.

Pöllath holds an honorary professorship at the Institute for Tax Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms- University in Münster ( Westphalia ) and is CEO of Max - Planck - Support Foundation, which he founded in 2006 together with Stefan von Holtzbrinck.

Honors

• After Pöllath the asteroid ( 7448 ) Pöllath is named, discovered the day before his birth.
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class

Publications (selection)

• Handbook of corporate acquisition. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1982 ISBN 3- 7875-4304 -X ( with Albert J. Rädler )
• Law and practice of corporate acquisition. Legal and tax considerations. Cologne 1984 ISBN 3-8145-0135-7 ( with Hans -Joachim Holzapfel, 12th edition 2005)
• Going concern by succession or sale. Economic, legal, tax basics and practice. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2007 ISBN 978-3-8329-2489-8
• Company acquisitions in law and practice. Cologne 2010, 14th revised edition ISBN 978-3-8145-7435-6 ( with Hans -Joachim Holzapfel )

• 200 years business lawyers in Germany. Nomos, Baden -Baden 2009 ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 ( with Ingo Saenger )