Brun-Hagen Hennerkes

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brun-Hagen Hennerkes (born October 4, 1939 ) is a German legal scholar , lawyer and was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Family Businesses Foundation until the end of 2019 .

Life

Hennerkes graduated from high school in Marianum (Warburg) and studied from 1960 to 1964 first ancient languages ​​and then law at the universities of Saarbrücken , Freiburg im Breisgau and Hamburg . In 1966 he did his doctorate with Konrad Hesse in Freiburg im Breisgau with a subject under constitutional law (the basic rights of prisoners on remand) . In 1987 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart for the areas of business and corporate tax law. He began his professional activity in 1968 with a manager training course at the steel trade association in Düsseldorf, after which he was appointed the youngest member of the management department of Mannesmann AG , where he acted as assistant to CEO Egon Overbeck . He worked here until he joined Conrad Böttcher's law firm in 1971, which was exclusively concerned with family businesses. In 1981, Hennerkes became the sole senior partner of the law firm, which was later named Hennerkes, Kirchdörfer & Lorz. He also advised family businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on conceptual issues. He is exclusively active in the conceptual support of European family businesses (especially succession planning) and the legal and tax organization of significant private assets (family contracts, foundations, trusts). As the "Consigliere des Deutschen Industrieadels", he accompanied the design of supervisory boards and advisory boards and was chairman or member of numerous supervisory bodies (including Bauerfeind AG , Berentzen, Edding, Eckes, Grünenthal, Hugo Boss, Jowat, Mahle, Uzin Utz, VBH Holding, Stöhr).

In 2002 he founded the non-profit foundation family businesses , which advocates the interests of family businesses in Germany and Europe. Since then, Hennerkes has been the chairman of the Family Business Foundation.

Hennerkes is the author of scientific publications on problem areas in the family business and author of the standard work "The family and their company".

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Brun-Hagen Hennerkes, Mark K. Binz : Corporate Tax Law. Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-20082-8 .
  • Brun-Hagen Hennerkes, Rainer Kirchdörfer (ed.): Company handbook for family companies. Heymann, Cologne 1995; 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3-452-23477-0 .
  • Brun-Hagen Hennerkes: The family and their company. Strategy, liquidity, control. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37562-1 .
  • Brun-Hagen Hennerkes, George Augustin (Ed.): Helping to shape changing values. Acting well in society and in the economy. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30618-1 .
  • Brun-Hagen Hennerkes, Rainer Kirchdörfer, Stefan Heidbreder, Nils Goldschmidt: Property - Why we need it. What it does. Where it is at risk. Herder, Freiburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-37871-3 .

literature

  • Dieter Jeschke, Rainer Kirchdörfer, Rainer Lorz (eds.): Planning, financing and control in family businesses. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Brun-Hagen Hennerkes on his 65th birthday. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-406-46280-1 , therein list of publications, pp. 301-305.
  • Rainer Kirchdörfer (Ed.): Family businesses in law, economy, politics and society. Festschrift for Brun-Hagen Hennerkes on his 70th birthday. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59617-9 , therein list of publications pp. 527-531.
  • Georg Augustin, Rainer Kirchdörfer (ed.): Family - Discontinued model or guarantor of our future? Brun-Hagen Hennerkes on his 75th birthday. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-33560-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hennerkes gives up chairmanship of the Family Business Foundation. Family Businesses in Focus (FiFo) , December 3, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Biography: Ulrich, Patrick in: Becker, Wolfgang; Weber, Jürgen (Ed.), Corporate Governance in Medium-Sized Enterprises, pp. 411f.
  3. ^ Spiegel Online, 2012: [1]
  4. ↑ Supervisory boards: [2]
  5. ↑ Bauerfeind: Prof. Rainer Kirchdörfer new Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bauerfeind AG ( Memento from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Berentzen: [3]
  7. ↑ Edding: [4]
  8. ↑ Eckes: [5]
  9. ↑ Grünenthal [6]
  10. ↑ Hugo Boss: [7]
  11. ↑ Jowat: Imprint ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ↑ Mahle: [8]
  13. ↑ Uzin Utz: [9]
  14. ↑ VBH Holding: [10]
  15. ↑ Board of Directors & Management | Family Business Foundation. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Campus Verlag: The family and their company The family and their company ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Awards [11]
  18. ↑ Awards [12]
  19. ↑ Awards [13]
personal data
SURNAME Hennerkes, Brun-Hagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, lawyer and chairman of the family business foundation
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1939