Bernd-Artin Wessels

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Bernd-Artin Wessels (born June 22, 1941 in Großenhain ) is a German businessman and entrepreneur from Bremen a . a. as a shipowner ( Union Reederei ) and importer of tropical fruits as well as a patron .

biography

Family, education and work

Wessels was the son of Bernhard Heinrich Wessels. He grew up in Bremen. From 1948 he attended the primary school on Schaumburger Strasse and from 1954 the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium . In 1959 he began his training as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant , which he finished in 1967. From 1964 to 1967 he studied at the German Foreign Trade and Transport Academy in Bremen and graduated in business administration . 1970 to 1973 he deepened his studies at the Academy for World Trade in Wiesbaden and then at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg in the course of business mathematics / computer science .

From 1967 he worked at Harder, Meiser & Co. in the Scipio Group as a business economist in the corporate planning department. In 1972/73 he took over the central management and sales and in 1978 the management of Bratlanta BV in Rotterdam . In 1980 he became a limited partner and in 1981 a personally liable partner at Scipio GmbH & Co. KG in Bremen. This company and its daughters were u. a. in the fruit trade the largest German and later European group of companies in the industry. In 1987 he became a senior partner of the Scipio Group at home and abroad. In 1987 Atlanta AG was founded and Wessels took over as CEO. The group of companies became one of the most important companies in the fresh fruit trade. In 1996 he resigned from the board of directors of Atlanta AG and he became the sole managing partner of Scipio GmbH & Co KG , which held 100% of the shares in Atlanta AG . In 1998 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of Atlanta AG and the chairmanship of the advisory board of the Heuer Group , of which he was a partner.

In Bremen he is also known as the “banana king”, according to the taz.

He has been married to Elke Wessels, b. Seevers.

Other entrepreneurial activities

Wessels is or was also

  • Since 1990 managing partner of Wessels-Vermögensanlage-GbR , Bremen, now Stuhr
  • Co- owner of BAW-Beteiligungs- und Consulting GmbH , Bremen, now Stuhr
  • Managing Director of Bremische Finanzbeteiligungs GmbH , Bremen
  • Co-partner and advisory board (until 2011) of HanseProjekt GmbH , Bremen
  • Co-partner of the Media Group , Glinde near Reinbek
  • Chairman of the advisory board of Koopmanndruck Druckerei August Koopmann , Stuhr
  • Founder of the companies Wessels-Immobilien , WIG-Wessels-Immobilien , BAW Beteiligungs- und Consulting , Innovationskontor Nordwest in Bremen, Zentaurus in Stuhr, HWB Beteiligungs- und Consulting in Stuhr
  • Member of supervisory boards and a. from Park Hotel Bremen from Haacke + Haacke in Celle (chairman since 2009), Fruit2Trade AG in Bremen (chairman)
  • Member, often as deputy chairman and chairman of various companies, u. a. Advisory board member of Deutsche Bank and Allianz .
  • Deputy Chairman of the Exchange Council of the Bremen Stock Exchange
  • Chairman of the Foreign Trade Committee of DHIT, Berlin
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Bremen Family Office AG

Further memberships

Wessels was

  • Member of the Presidium of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce since 1998 (Vice President until 2005)
  • Coordinator of the Latin America Initiative in Bremen
  • Member of the foreign trade committee of the DIHT
  • Honorary professor since 1993, later associate professor for Marketing and International Management at the University of Sofia
  • Until 2006 chairman of the Bremen State Board of Trustees of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and member of the board of the Stifterverband in Essen
  • Until 2007 chairman of the board of trustees of the German Foreign Trade and Transport Academy , Bremen
  • Since 1992 Honorary Consul and from 2000 to 2015 Honorary Consul General of Ecuador and therefore from 2002 to 2012 Doyen in the state of Bremen .
  • Vice-President Eurochambres, Brussels
  • President of the Syke Golf Club
  • Managing Director of Langeooger Golf GmbH & Co. KG , Stuhr

Wessels is

  • PR Advisory Board of the University of Bremen
  • 2001 founder of the Bernd-Artin Wessels Cancer Foundation
  • Board and advisory board functions in various cultural institutions
  • Co-founder of the foundation house in Bremen, founding president until 2008

Honors

  • Schaffer 1992 of the Schaffermahlzeit Bremen
  • Elected Bremen entrepreneur of the year 1994
  • Senator E. h. of the University of Bremen
  • Honorary doctorate from Sofia University
  • AMW Award 2012 from the University of Bremen
  • Honorary President of the Syke Golf Club

Publications

  • The banana dictation - a plea for free European foreign trade. Policies from 1995. In: My view back to the front , Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-505-9 .
  • Donations in Bremen , Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008.
  • Freedom of trade - then and now . In: Roland and Freedom . Edition Temmen, Bremen.
  • My look back to the front , Verlag Hauschild, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89757-505-9 .

Sources, web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz from June 24, 2011: The fruits of his labor - Bernd-Artin Wessels, Bananenimporteuer .
personal data
SURNAME Wessels, Bernd-Artin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain