Alexander Otto (entrepreneur)

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Alexander Otto (born July 7, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German business manager and founder .

Life

Alexander Otto is the youngest son of the Hamburg mail order company founder Werner Otto and his third wife Maren.

After high school and studies at Oxford and Harvard as well as professional positions in the USA, he joined the family business in 1994. Since 2000 he has been the CEO of ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Hamburg, which develops, realizes, leases and operates large commercial real estate. The company is owned by CURA Vermögensverwaltung , a holding company of the Otto family .

Alexander Otto is also a member of the Otto Group's Supervisory Board , the chairman of which is his half-brother Michael Otto . He is also on the supervisory boards of Deutsche EuroShop AG , Sonae Sierra Brasil SA in São Paulo / Brazil and DDR Corp. in Cleveland / USA as well as on the advisory board of Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf .

Otto acted as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Europe and chaired the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Europe until October 2015 . He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Lebendige Stadt Foundation , which is largely supported by the ECE. In 2006 he set up the Alexander Otto Sports Foundation, named after himself , whose goal is the sustainable promotion of popular sport, but also competitive sports in his hometown of Hamburg, and which was responsible for the construction and operation of the Volksbank Arena , which opened at the end of 2008 . In 2011 he founded the Dorit & Alexander Otto Foundation with his wife Dorit. In particular, the foundation supports medical and cultural projects, including the extensive modernization of the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

From January 2009 he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV , and in June 2012 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board. He did not run again for the January 2013 election. At the general meeting of the HSV on January 25, 2015 Otto announced that he would donate 10 million euros to the HSV for the construction of the HSV campus , the general planning and construction of which will be carried out by ECE. The Alexander Otto Sportstiftung has a 25 percent stake in HSV-Campus gGmbH , which owns the HSV-Campus, and rents it to HSV Fußball AG, which holds the remaining 75 percent. All surpluses go to charitable sports projects of HSV e. V. benefit.

capital

Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $ 10.8 billion in 2019.

Awards

literature

  • Alexander Otto , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 32/2013 from August 6, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Reinhard Grindel among others: A life for sport. Festschrift for the 50th birthday of Alexander Otto (= Lebendige Stadt series . Volume 10). Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-95542-274-5 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consolidated financial statements of the limited partnership CURA Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & Co., s. www.ebundesanzeiger.de
  2. ↑ About us - Management Board . ece.de. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Alexander Otto Sportstiftung www.alexander-otto-sportstiftung.de
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Dorit & Alexander Otto Foundation www.dorit-und-alexander-otto-stiftung.de
  5. ↑ Voting - Alexander Otto is the new HSV supervisory board chairman . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 5, 2012. Accessed August 14, 2012. 
  6. ↑ HSV is looking for a new boss for its supervisory board . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 15, 2012. Accessed October 22, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Hamburger SV: Otto donates 10 million euros for campus construction ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), January 25, 2015, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ Otto donates the campus to HSV . (HA of January 26, 2015)
  9. ↑ Alexander Otto. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ Patron Alexander Otto receives DOSB-Preis Pro Ehrenamt. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 29, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and patron, CEO of ECE
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg