Carsten Maschmeyer

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Carsten Maschmeyer (born May 8, 1959 in Bremen ) is a German financial entrepreneur . As managing director of the Maschmeyer Group, he invests in start-ups from various industries. Before that, he built up the financial sales company AWD Holding AG and was a board member of MaschmeyerRürup AG, which was founded together with Bert Rürup . Maschmeyer's business practices and his close contacts with top politicians provoked criticism.

Life

Career up to studies

Maschmeyer initially lived with his single mother, who worked as a secretary in a school office, in a mother-child home in Hildesheim in simple circumstances. He was later brought up strictly by her and his stepfather, an engineer at Blaupunkt . Maschmeyer was district youth champion in medium and long-distance running in his youth. In 1978 his school days ended with the Abitur at the Robert Bosch Comprehensive School in Hildesheim.

After graduating from high school, he signed up as a temporary soldier (SaZ2) for two years in the armed forces . He was trained as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr medical service . He then began studying medicine at the Hannover Medical School . In order to be able to finance it, he also worked in sales at OVB Vermögensberatung AG. He completed numerous training courses and devoted himself intensively to financial advice, with the result that he was forcibly de-registered in the spring of 1982 due to excessive absenteeism.

Business life

The sales activities were economically successful for Carsten Maschmeyer; In 1983 he was promoted to country director. In 1987 Maschmeyer resigned from OVB and received severance pay .

A little later, with DM 900,000, he  joined the Allgemeine Wirtschaftsdienst (AWD), which was presumably founded in 1987 by his later brother-in-law Kai Lange, and took over the majority and management of financial sales, which had the aim of advising and acting independently of insurance companies and banks. From 1991 Maschmeyer began expanding the AWD abroad. He founded an Austrian subsidiary, AWD Austria , based in Vienna . Market entries in Switzerland , Great Britain and Central and Eastern Europe followed . In 2000, when the share prices on the stock exchanges were already falling after the bull market , he brought the AWD to the stock exchange. With an issue price of 54 euros per share, proceeds of around 500 million euros were achieved.

In December 2007, Maschmeyer supported the takeover of AWD by the Swiss insurance group Swiss Life (formerly Schweizerische Lebensversicherungs- und Rentenanstalt) in his function as CEO . Swiss Life offered shareholders a price of 30 euros per share. In the course of the takeover offer, the Maschmeyer family also sold their 30 percent stake in AWD in Swiss Life, which now holds 97.71 percent in AWD. In August 2008 Maschmeyer sold Swiss Life a block of shares with a 26.75 percent stake in AWD competitor MLP AG , which he had previously bought. In return, he acquired shares worth CHF 300 million in Swiss Life, making him the company's largest private shareholder.

As part of the further expansion of the AWD, Maschmeyer was assigned Manfred Behrens, previously CEO Germany of Swiss Life, as co-CEO from September 1, 2008 , and the AWD board was expanded from three to eight members. In May 2009 Maschmeyer resigned from the AWD board and Manfred Behrens took over the sole management. Maschmeyer himself moved to the Swiss Life Board of Directors from May 2009 to December 2011 .

In January 2010, founded Maschmeyer together with former economic experts and economists Bert Rürup the MaschmeyerRürup AG . The independent, internationally active company advised banks, insurance companies and governments on questions of old-age and healthcare provision; it was liquidated after Rürup left in 2013 .

All activities of Carsten Maschmeyer are suspended under the strategic umbrella of the Maschmeyer Group . With his investment vehicle Alternative Strategic Investments GmbH (Alstin) he invests in growth companies from various industries. In addition to Alstin, he finances early-stage investments through his seed & speed ventures fund. In addition, within the Maschmeyer Group there are consulting activities, joint ventures and investments that Maschmeyer makes together with his family, partners and colleagues.

Headquarters of the Maschmeyer Group in the former Villa Ebeling at Hindenburgstrasse No. 42 in Hannover- Zoo ( Lage ).

Another Maschmeyer's company is HMNC Brain Health , a biotechnology company that he founded together with Florian Holsboer , the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, and that specializes in the research and development of new drugs for depression and anxiety disorders . The Maschmeyer Group also includes Paladin Asset Management GmbH , an asset management company in Hanover that aims to achieve sustainable value growth with long-term equity investments. Maschmeyer was also involved in MIFA (Mitteldeutsche Fahrradwerke AG) , which had to file for bankruptcy in October 2014, and in GCI with its main stake in the Spaichingen machine factory. Maschmeyer sharply criticized the restructuring consultants and auditors at MIFA at the time, accusing them of capitalizing on the company's plight. In addition, until 2015 he was involved in Biofrontera AG , which launched Ameluz, an agent against basal cell cancer .

Maschmeyer is involved in several start-up companies , including Blacklane , nu3 , barzahlen , orderbird , pflege.de and crealytics . In May 2013, he invested a high seven-figure amount in the event guide startup Mobile Event Guide and thus holds 25 percent of the company's shares. In addition, Maschmeyer acquired shares in the medical technology startup Syntellix for the first time in 2013 and subsequently increased its stake to 43 percent. From 2015 onwards, Maschmeyer and Syntellix founder Utz Claassen had a dispute on the supervisory board about control of the company. This was finally ended at the end of 2016 when Maschmeyer sold his shares to Claasen.

further activities

Maschmeyer is a member of the board of trustees of the International Neurobionics Foundation. The foundation promotes research in the field of neurobionics . Maschmeyer was also a member of the board of trustees of the “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” initiative .

In August 2010, Maschmeyer positioned himself as one of 40 prominent signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , an initiative of the four power companies dominating the German market, which advocates extending the service life of German nuclear power plants . On the one hand, Maschmeyer was of the opinion that phasing out nuclear energy would be a risk as long as renewable energies are not yet powerful and sufficiently competitive; on the other hand, he is convinced today that renewable energies are the future.

In March 2012 Maschmeyer published his book Selfmade - Live Successfully . In February 2016, his second book, Die Millionärsformel - The Path to Financial Independence, came out on the market.

Maschmeyer has been one of the investors since the third season of the VOX television program Die Höhle der Löwen , which was broadcast in 2016. The first broadcasts of the third season achieved high ratings.

In July 2017, Sat.1 announced the commitment of Maschmeyer. He hosted in the spring of 2018, the Business Startup ( Startup ) -Show This is your chance . After the broadcast of the first three episodes, the end of the show was announced due to low ratings.

Private life

Carsten Maschmeyer and Veronica Ferres at the Berlinale 2010

Maschmeyer met his future wife Bettina at OVB , where she was his personal assistant. The marriage resulted in two sons. The marriage was divorced in early 2009 after 20 years.

Maschmeyer has been in a relationship with actress Veronica Ferres since 2009, and the couple has been married since September 2014.

capital

Maschmeyer's fortune was estimated at 650 million euros at the end of 2010  . In 2013, Manager Magazin estimated the fortune at 1.05  billion euros, making it 118th on the list of the 500 richest Germans . According to an estimate by the business magazine Bilanz , the assets amounted to 1.25 billion euros as of August 2018.

Controversy

Campaign Funding

In 1998, before the state elections in Lower Saxony, Maschmeyer financed an advertising campaign costing 650,000  marks with the anonymous text in daily newspapers: "The next Chancellor must be from Lower Saxony". According to his own statements, he did not want to support Gerhard Schröder directly , but rather prevent Lafontaine from becoming chancellor.

For Schröder's federal election campaign in 1998 , the initiative "Handwerk und Mittelstand für Gerhard Schröder" announced in a letter dated June 13, 1998 from the SPD- led Lower Saxony State Chancellery that a Maschmeyer donation of 150,000 marks (which violated the party donation law by this concealment of origin ) would be forwarded . According to the ARD magazine Panorama, this donation was intended to finance full-page campaign advertisements in the FAZ , the world and the world on Sunday . Maschmeyer himself denied the payment of this sum to the initiative in 2011.

In December 2011 it became known that Carsten Maschmeyer had financed the advertising campaign for Hugo Müller-Vogg's interview book with Christian Wulff Besser the truth during the Lower Saxony election campaign in autumn 2007 with almost 43,000 euros from his private assets. According to research by the tabloid Bild , the book, in which Wulff describes his private and political life, was also used for election campaign purposes. Christian Wulff stated that he did not know anything about the background to the financing of the advertising campaign, which was confirmed by a spokesman for Maschmeyer. Maschmeyer supported the distribution of the book because he had a business relationship with the book publisher Hoffmann und Campe. Wulff, who is friends with Maschmeyer, spent a summer vacation in Maschmeyer's villa on Mallorca in July 2010 .

Character assassination campaign

In December 2003, the former AWD employee Stefan Schabirosky claims to have offered DVAG- Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG to launch a defamation campaign against Carsten Maschmeyer and his financial sales force AWD. DVAG accepted this offer and signed a consulting contract with him as controller, which was then extended to the end of 2008. In retrospect, the DVAG denied having been involved in a character assassination campaign and "resolutely rejected" all allegations. Schabirosky published his agreements with the DVAG and his activities with journalists in August 2017 under the title “My mission: character assassination”. Panorama in particular contradicted his role as the sole informant for the editorial team . Accordingly, the controversial business conduct of the AWD reported by Schabirosky at the time is proven by other sources. According to his own statements, Schabirosky received a total of 513,500 euros in fees, which was not enough for him. His claim for payment of three million euros as a success fee was again rejected by the DVAG and so he turned to Carsten Maschmeyer, who, according to Schabirosky, agreed to the publication after deleting some passages with personal attacks, especially since he was those of the competition financed smear campaign as a reason for the sale of his AWD shares to Swiss Life and his subsequent complete withdrawal.

Business practices

Although Maschmeyer sold the AWD in 2007 and is no longer operational there, he is still connected to the AWD . The company AWD and Maschmeyer had a bad image for a long time. After leaving AWD, media coverage and image changed. Together with his partner Veronica Ferres, he has recently been mentioned frequently, especially in the tabloid media. In January 2011, the Financial Times Deutschland wrote about its public image: "After AWD was founded in 1988, Maschmeyer was the leper of the unpopular column of pushers for years ."

Some of the contributions brought Maschmeyer as a company leader and responsible person, but also with controversial business practices of the AWD in direct connection. In September 2010, the ARD shone in the show Panorama a post about Maschmeyer entitled cheaters Maschmeyer: Favorite politics, friend of the President of. It reports on thousands of small investors who are said to have lost their money with financial products purchased from the AWD. The NDR then took up the allegations again and produced the documentary Der Drückerkönig und die Politik from the ARD-exclusiv series ; this was broadcast on January 12, 2011. Maschmeyer's lawyer had previously tried to prevent the broadcast from being broadcast.

A preliminary injunction at the Berlin Regional Court after the documentary was broadcast prohibited the NDR from continuing to show a certain scene. As a result, Maschmeyer took legal action both against the NDR and against some of the journalists involved in the two ARD contributions. These received warning letters to their private addresses and were questioned in detail by telephone about their employment relationships by credit agencies . In addition, Maschmeyer commissioned a criminal lawyer to prepare an expert opinion on the question of whether journalists had committed a criminal offense in connection with the NDR reports. Possible criminal offenses are coercion , political suspicion and the dissemination of images without the consent of those depicted on them.

The FAZ journalist Michael Hanfeld wrote in this context of a fight back “by all means” and a “veritable attack on freedom of the press and free journalism”. The German Association of Journalists (DJV) stated about Maschmeyer's actions that he had “threatened freedom of the press and democracy” and demanded that he “immediately stop the press and criminal prosecution [...]”.

Maschmeyer justified his behavior towards the NDR and the recourse to a media lawyer and a criminal lawyer by saying that he felt that the multiple interview requests from an "overzealous journalist" were "coercion" and "felt persecuted" in this respect. He justified his measures against the background of a panorama interview that had not come about or had not been defined in advance, among other things with his view that he could not and should not allow thousands of his former employees to be defamed.

In April 2011 the Association for Consumer Protection Information (VKI) filed a criminal complaint against Maschmeyer in Vienna on suspicion of commercial fraud and the establishment or membership of a criminal organization .

In July 2011, the NDR announced that Maschmeyer and the NDR had agreed not to pursue any further legal disputes in connection with the NDR reporting on Maschmeyer.

After speculating in the spring of 2011 whether a 154-year-old “venerable institution” like Rentenanstalt wanted such press, Maschmeyer resigned from the Swiss Life Board of Directors in December 2011 and reduced his five percent stake to below three percent.

In his book Selfmade and also in a TV appearance on the show Menschen bei Maischberger in March 2012, Maschmeyer admitted that he had “done a few things wrong” in the past in the area of communication .

In 2014 the star headlined that Maschmeyer and other celebrities had invested money in so-called cum-ex funds at the Swiss bank J. Safra Sarasin . Maschmeyer demanded his investment back from the bank, but initially received only part of it, so that a legal dispute between him and the bank ensued. During this time Maschmeyer received two death threats, which he suspected from the banking family. Through a settlement, the bank finally repaid Maschmeyer most of his investment.

Schröder memoirs

In November 2014, Stern reported that Maschmeyer had paid 2 million euros for the rights to Schröder's memoir. The deal was initiated in the summer of 2005 after the very lucrative old age income law for the AWD came into force in January 2005 . According to the authors' knowledge, 2 million euros was an "absurdly high" fee that could not even come close to being recovered through the later book sale.

Honors

The University of Hildesheim awarded Maschmeyer an honorary doctorate on his 50th birthday on May 8, 2009 . He had previously sponsored a professorship there at the Institute of Psychology with a donation of 500,000 euros. The eulogy held Christian Wulff . The award of an honorary doctorate on the basis of his “services to the advancement of science” was criticized and was reported to the Hanover public prosecutor . However, after preliminary investigations by the anti-corruption department, the proceedings were discontinued due to the lack of a verifiable connection between donation and honorary doctorate. In addition, the public prosecutor stated that the award of an honorary doctorate to a donor is within the legally permissible discretion of the university anyway.

Publications

Literature, sources

Web links

Commons : Carsten Maschmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Video

Individual evidence

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