Andreas Heeschen

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Andreas Heeschen (born November 29, 1960 ) is a German financial investor .

Life

Heeschen, son of an oil entrepreneur, attended the boarding school at Schloss Neubeuen in Bavaria. He studied law and business administration. He then worked for various London investment banks. In 1993 he acquired the detergent manufacturer Luhns and in 2004 the Wolf-Garten company . As a result of the financial crisis in 2008, he had to sell both companies at a loss. In 2009, he joined the chemical company LyondellBasell with Leonard Blavatnik .

In October 2014 he took over the aircraft manufacturer Remos Aircraft GmbH from Pasewalk .

Heeschen is described as shy of the public. He is married and has four children. Andreas Heeschen has a permanent residence in Great Britain .

Heckler

In 2002 he took a stake in the German weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch , in which he now owns more than 50% of the shares. At that time, the company's debt was only around 2.5 million euros, according to the CFO from 2019. In 2013 the Heckler & Koch company fell into a crisis. By November 2015, Heeschen had invested 60 million euros from his private assets to reduce the company's debts. In the same year he became the new managing director and took over the operational management of the company. At the beginning of 2016, Heeschen resigned from the management and switched to the supervisory board, with Norbert Scheuch taking over the new management. Nicola Marinelli, a former managing director of Holding H & K AG, through which Heeschen holds a stake in Heckler & Koch, publicly stated in the dispute over a severance payment in 2018 that Heeschen had pledged his shares in the stock corporation to a French investor who had been the Hold the scepter in hand at the company. The mother holding company and Heeschen themselves assured, however, that he was still the majority owner of the company. In February 2015, Heckler & Koch was in debt with 295 million euros; At that time, Heeschen is said to have pledged around ten million shares for a loan to the Luxembourg-based financial holding CDE, which is backed by French investor and fund manager Nicolas Walewski . The voting rights remained with Heeschen. According to the company, Heeschen has repaid private loans received from Heckler & Koch in the past, but loans to other Heeschens companies had to be written off in the three-digit million range. CDE, which aims to take over the majority in Heckler & Koch, currently holds 5.1 percent of the company. The shareholder representatives of CDE massively attacked Heeschen and his activities at the general meeting of the weapons manufacturer on December 19, 2019 because of disagreements about the composition of the supervisory board and the "self-service mentality" of the German financial investor and questioned his seriousness, but could not prevail due to the majority. In this context, Heeschen also received a seat on the Heckler & Koch supervisory board.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Heeschen , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/2015 from August 11, 2015 (fl), supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 45/2015, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 27, 2015 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Henryk Hielscher, Rüdiger Kiani-Kreß: "We are the most innovative when it comes to handguns". In: Wirtschaftswoche . August 24, 2010, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Sönke Iwersen : Puzzling business. In: Handelsblatt . May 12, 2009, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  4. ^ Arms manufacturer saves company in Pasewalk. In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . April 24, 2015, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hauke ​​Friederichs: The man in cover. In: Zeit Online . August 22, 2013, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c Oliver Schmale: Things are going very well at Heckler & Koch. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 19, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Gerhard Hegmann: Lost Heckler & Koch owner speaks up. In: The world. November 1, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Hegmann: Heckler & Koch is looking for new donors. In: The world . April 13, 2014, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Max Hägler: Assault rifles, scapegoats and double standards. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 16, 2014, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Owner is investing more money in Heckler & Koch. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 17, 2015, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Oliver Schmale: Heckler & Koch is fighting for its reputation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 30, 2015, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  12. ^ Gerhard Hegmann: Heckler & Koch: Norbert Scheuch is the new boss. In: The world. January 21, 2016, accessed December 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Oliver Schmale: Who pulls the strings at Heckler & Koch? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 18, 2018, accessed December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heeschen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German financial investor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1960