Carl Heinz Illies

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Carl Heinz Illies (born April 1, 1935 in Tokyo ; † January 16, 1995 in Munich ) was a Hamburg merchant ( Carl Illies & Co. ) and from 1981 to 1986 President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

Origin, education and profession

Carl-Heinz Illies was born as the son of Carl Jürgen Illies into a Hamburg merchant family. His great-grandfather Carl Illies senior (1840–1910) took over the oldest German- Japanese trading company Louis Kniffler & Co., founded in Nagasaki in 1859 , and renamed it Carl Illies & Co.

Carl-Heinz Illies attended the Johanneum School of Academics in Hamburg , completed an apprenticeship at the Berenberg Bank after graduating from high school and then studied economics in the USA . After an internship at an American shipping company, he joined his father's company in 1958 and took over management in 1966. Illies expanded the trading company's activities to selected cities in Africa and the China network by eight additional office locations. Illies died at the age of only 59 and left the company to his son Carl Michael Illies, who is now the fifth generation to run the trading company.

Volunteering

From 1981 to 1986 he was President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and from 1986 Vice President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). He was Vice President of the East Asian Association , which his great-grandfather had co-founded in 1900, and for many years chairman of the Japan, Korea and Taiwan national committees of the leading associations of the German economy BDI and DIHK.

From 1988 to 1991 he was President of the Overseas Club .

The Carl-Heinz Illies grant in the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben is named after him.

He also distinguished himself through numerous publications.

literature

  • Illies, Carl-Heinz , In: Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996, p. 237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summary of the lecture by Katja Schmidtpott: The oldest German trading house in Japan: L.Kniffler & Co / C. Illies & Co 1859 - 1914 before the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia on March 17, 2010
  2. ^ Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt from January 17, 1995 ( Memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Personnel in the Computerwoche of April 11, 1986
  4. ^ Illies, Carl-Heinz , In: Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996, p. 237
  5. ↑ http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendien/chif.html
personal data
SURNAME Illies, Carl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1995
Place of death Munich