André Rettberg

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André Maarten Rettberg (born October 8, 1957 in the Netherlands ) was the head of the book, paper and music retail chain LIBRO, which is mainly active in Austria .

Life

Rettberg trained as a bookseller and started working at Libro Salzburg.

In 1984 the group manager Veit Schalle and founder Karl Wlaschek transferred the reorganization of the then ailing discount chain Libro, a 100% subsidiary of the BML Group ("Billa Group"; today: Rewe International ), to Andrè Rettberg.

After the sale of the “Billa Group” to the German Rewe Group in 1996, initially remaining in Wlaschek's private foundation, Libro went into a management buyout . At the end of 1997, Libro was sold to a consortium of several financing and investment companies, as well as to individual investors, including Rettberg himself. In November 1999 he brought Libro shares to the Vienna Stock Exchange . Celebrated as a star renovator in the media, he was named “Manager of the Year” in 1999 by 22 Austrian business journalists for the news magazine News .

Due to an exaggerated expansion policy, takeover of the bookstore chain Amadeus and founding of the Internet company Lion.cc , towards the end of the 1990s, the company first slid into compensation in 2001 and bankruptcy a year later . Rettberg then fled abroad and went into hiding for 16 months.

From June 2005, Rettberg stayed in Austria again, as the Ministry of Justice granted him safe conduct until the first judgment was pronounced in the first instance. His defense lawyer was the Austrian Elmar Kresbach . In May 2006, he was sentenced to three years in prison, eight months of which was unconditional, for attempted fraudulent krida . This process did not yet refer directly to the Libro bankruptcy, but to the attempted concealment of existing private assets in order to remove them from the access of Libro creditors. The judgment was initially not final, as Rettberg filed an annulment complaint because of the possibly incorrectly composed jury senate. The General Procuratorate and the Supreme Court should examine the case. The Supreme Court confirmed the guilty verdict. The contested sentence of three years imprisonment, eight months of which was unconditional, imposed by the Vienna Regional Court, was upheld on September 15, 2008 by the Vienna Higher Regional Court. He should have started his sentence at the beginning of 2009, but he could ask for a one-year reprieve in order to ensure the continued existence of his family.

In August 2010 it became known that the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), which held a stake in the Libro subsidiary Lion.cc in 2001, had filed a complaint against Rettberg with the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office. The point is that the WAZ alleges Rettberg and other suspects to have shifted 350 million schillings (the equivalent of 25.7 million euros) from Lion.cc to mother Libro. The head of the public prosecutor's office confirmed to the free newspaper Heute that based on the WAZ report, a case would be initiated against Rettberg. At the beginning of 2011, the main proceedings for the Libro bankruptcy in 2002 began, in which Rettberg was sentenced on June 21, 2010 to another (not legally binding) prison term of three and a half years. On the other hand, due to the amount of the penalty, an appeal was made and an annulment appeal was announced. .
On June 21, 2011, around a decade after the LIBRO settlement, Andre Maarten Rettberg was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment as an additional penalty at the regional court in Wiener Neustadt. If the judgment becomes final, he will have to go to prison for a total of four years and two months.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Libro bankruptcy: From stock market star to bankruptcy.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: News , June 5, 2002. Retrieved August 26, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.news.at  
  2. ↑ a b Wirtschaftsblatt, October 14, 2009 (see web links).
  3. ↑ http://diepresse.at/home/wirtschaft/economist/73023/index.do
  4. ↑ Does the Rettberg trial have to be repeated? In: oesterreich.orf.at. August 3, 2007. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ Ex-Libro boss: New report against Andre Rettberg. In: Der Standard / APA , August 17, 2010. August 26, 2010.
  6. ^ "Libro judgment: 3.5 years additional penalty for Rettberg" In: Tiroler Tageszeitung . Retrieved June 21, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Libro: Rettberg has to go to prison" In: Die Presse . Retrieved June 21, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Rettberg, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rettberg, André Maarten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Netherlands