Bernd Thiemann

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Bernd Thiemann (born July 5, 1943 in Münster ) is a German manager . From September 1981 to June 1991 he was chairman of the board of the Norddeutsche Landesbank and from June 1991 to April 2001 he was chairman of the board of the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank, which was merged with DZ Bank in 2001.

ancestry

Bernd Thiemann is the son of a doctor of economics from Münster and belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

education and profession

Thiemann graduated from high school Paulinum in 1962 . He then studied law and political science at the universities of Münster and Freiburg , passed the second state examination in 1970 and received his doctorate in 1973. jur.

During his studies, Thiemann also did a banking apprenticeship and joined the Lower Saxony savings bank association as a trainee in 1970 . In 1971 he came to Sparkasse Osnabrück and in the same year moved to the board of the Kreissparkasse Meppen . In 1973 he took over the chairmanship of the board of the Kreissparkasse Meppen. In 1976 Thiemann became bank director at Norddeutsche Landesbank (Nord / LB) and joined the board of this institute in the same year. Since September 1981 Thiemann has been chairman of the board of the Norddeutsche Landesbank.

From 1981 to 1991, Thiemann was also a member of the board of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV). Since 1988 he has been Vice President of the DSGV and at times under discussion as the successor to DSGV President Helmut Geiger .

Thiemann left Nord / LB in June 1991 and was Chairman of the Management Board of the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank (DG Bank) until April 2001. He had already announced the decision to do so in January 1991 to the Lower Saxony Finance Minister Hinrich Swieter . During the first years of his chairmanship at DG Bank, Thiemann was busy with the urgently needed restructuring, which he was able to successfully complete in 1994. DG Bank had been in the profit zone again since 1995. In 1998, following a resolution by the German Bundestag, the DG Bank was converted into a stock corporation. In March 2001 Bernd Thiemann announced his resignation from the chairmanship in order not to stand in the way of the planned merger of DB Bank with GZ Bank to form the new DZ Bank.

From 1992 to 1998 Thiemann was chairman of the supervisory board of SAP . From 2001 he was chairman of the board at EM.TV . This restructuring case was renamed EM.Sport Media AG in July 2007 , in which Leo Kirch participated and from which Constantin Medien AG emerged on April 5, 2009 .

From 2004 to 2006 he was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Celanese AG and from 2010 to 2014 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hypo Real Estate (HRE).

Thiemann held mandates in numerous other corporate bodies, including membership of the supervisory boards of Thyssenkrupp Stainless AG , Deutsche EuroShop AG , VHV Vereinigte Hannoversche Versicherung a. G. and IVG Immobilien . He also sat on the Advisory Board of the Würth Group until 2013 , was active on the Board of Trustees of the Kestner Society and chaired the Board of Trustees of the Guardini Foundation .

At MMWarburg & CO , Bernd Thiemann is a member of the supervisory board and will become chairman of the company's supervisory board from January 2020 after Christian Olearius and his deputy vacate their posts because of allegations in connection with cum-ex deals .

family

Bernd Thiemann is married and has a daughter. The manager Gerhard Cromme and the mathematician Ludwig Cromme are brothers of Thiemann's wife Hildegard.

Honors

Publications

  • On the identity of the East German Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks. Institute for Cooperatives, Münster 1993
  • The cooperatives at the turn of the millennium - safeguarding the cooperative concept between tradition and modernity. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • Participation in POD Print Think, act, design. Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • Banking crisis - infirmity with a system (with Christian Olearius ). Issue 14 of Observations at the Time, Warburg 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ January 21, 1991 in the city chronicle of Hanover in the city archive (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. ^ DG Bank boss Bernd Thiemann goes , Der Spiegel, March 6, 2001
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/wirtschaft/article227725401/Warburg-Bank-wechselelt-Spitze-des-Aufsichtsrats-aus.html

literature

personal data
SURNAME Thiemann, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, CEO of the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster