Andreas Reinhart

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Andreas Reinhart (* 1944 in New York , resident in Winterthur ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and patron .

Life

Andreas Reinhart has headed Volkart Holding since 1985, which goes back to Salomon Volkart and originally worked in the coffee and cotton trade. Reinhart took over the family business in the fifth generation and restructured it fundamentally: in 1989 he sold the coffee business to the Winterthur Erb Group (see Volcafe ) and left the cotton trade in 1999. In addition to his work in the Volkart Holding and the Volkart Foundation, founded in 1951 sat Reinhart in different boards of directors (including UBS ), founded in 1985 with Martin Ebner , the BZ Bank and in 1993 with his cousin Matthias Reinhart The VZ Holding .

After Reinhart had sold the Volkart coffee business in 1989, he gradually invested in around 40 investments. Today he describes around three quarters of these as failures. In addition, he increasingly invested in ecologically and socially sustainable companies and founded the Volkart Vision Foundation in 1990, which focuses on development and humanitarian projects. He also supported cultural institutions, including the Oskar Reinhart Museum and the Oskar Reinhart Collection, as well as alternative cultural venues such as Kultursagi , the Theater am Gleis or the Loge studio cinema in his hometown of Winterthur. The headlines in 2006 were his exit from Suhrkamp Verlag , which the Reinhart family had helped to build up over the past 50 years.

Andreas Reinhart is one of Oskar Reinhart's great-nephews . His brother George Reinhart was the founder of the Fotomuseum Winterthur , his sister Charlotte Stettler-Reinhart was the long-time president of the Volkart Foundation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Gmür: Volkart Brothers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Entry of "Volkart Holding AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  3. ^ Suhrkamp on the high seas. In: FAZ. December 13, 2006.
  4. ↑ Reinhart George, 1942–1997 in the Winterthur Glossary.
  5. ^ History. Volkart Foundation, accessed on February 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Reinhart, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA