Carsten Rodbertus

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Carsten Rodbertus (2011) at a wind farm festival in Wahnwegen

Carsten Wilhelm Rodbertus (born March 9, 1961 ) is a former German entrepreneur and initiator and co-founder of the wind energy company Prokon . As managing director of the then corporation from 1995 to 2014, he built Prokon into one of the largest corporate groups in the renewable energies sector , but was relieved of his position after the initiation of insolvency proceedings in conflict with the insolvency administrator and shortly thereafter dismissed without notice.

Beginnings

Rodbertus completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and worked as an accountant in Hamburg . From 1985 to 1994 he worked in a medium-sized exhibition stand construction company, from 1989 head of finance and accounting. According to his own statement, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 aroused his interest in renewable energies . Since 1993 he has been operating two wind turbines , each with an output of 110 kW, in Arkebek in the Dithmarschen district , which he named "Käthe" and "Paul" after his grandparents.

Prokon

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In 1995 Rodbertus founded the company Prokon Energiesysteme together with Ingo de Buhr and a third partner . Due to different views on the future direction of the GmbH , de Buhr left in 1997. Rodbertus developed the company into a group of companies.

A company in the group, Prokon Regenerative Energien, filed for insolvency proceedings on January 22nd, 2014 . At the beginning of March 2014, Rodbertus planned to found a “Prokon Cooperative for a Future Worth Living”, the ideal of which would be to take over projects from the allegedly insolvent Prokon Regenerative Energie GmbH. The legal form of the cooperative was later replaced in favor of an AG.

On March 26, 2014, the Itzehoe district court ordered an immediate general prohibition of disposal for Rodbertus and two executives in order to secure the insolvency estate and to clarify the facts. On April 1, the provisional insolvency administrator Dietmar Penzlin announced that he had dismissed Rodbertus as managing director of Prokon and all subsidiaries. His work for the “Prokon Cooperative for a Future Worth Living i. G. “and his recent comments about Prokon had left no room for constructive cooperation; the dismissal should bring the necessary calm for the restructuring in the company; Rodbertus have left the company premises permanently. At the end of April, the company founder was given notice without notice, as Penzlin announced after the main insolvency proceedings were initiated on May 1, 2014.

In November 2014, Rodbertus agreed with the insolvency administrator to withdraw from the company with a mutual waiver of compensation claims.

According to Prokon

After the involuntary departure from his life's work, Rodbertus initially worked as a consultant for a newly founded Magdeburg company, whose name, Projects with a Concept for a Future Worth Living (PmK), clearly reminded of an earlier Prokon slogan and the cooperative planned in conflict with the insolvency administrator. The Stiftung Warentest announced that it would put the investment with the PmK on its “warning list” as soon as possible.

After Rodbertus had been sued by many investors personally for damages, he announced on September 19, 2014 via email to Prokon investors his personal bankruptcy on to it "probably no alternative" give. At the same time, he emphasizes that he has never personally enriched himself but has also "invested all of my savings and my full pension with Prokon in profit participation rights".

In March 2015, Rodbertus then worked, according to ZDF magazine Frontal21, as a production employee for a wood processing company, to which Prokon, with Rodbertus as managing director, had granted loans of 160 million euros.

Investigations

Since the summer of 2014, the Lübeck Public Prosecutor's Office has been investigating Rodbertus and other responsible parties for the delay in bankruptcy and fraud , after the corresponding reports had already led to the investigation of the initial suspicion at the end of 2013. In addition, it has been investigating corruption since April 2013 , as an employee of the Wesermarsch district who was planning locations for wind farms had received fee payments for three reports from Prokon as part of a sideline activity.

In September 2017, two proceedings against the managing directors around company founder Carsten Rodbertus were discontinued.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Lars-Marten Nagel, Marc Neller: The man behind the risky Prokon promise. In: The world . January 14, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014 : "When a nuclear power plant blew up in Chernobyl in the mid-1980s, a young accountant from Hamburg decided to change the world."
  3. ↑ a b The man behind Prokon. shz.de, January 16, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Prokon files for bankruptcy - business operations continue. Die Zeit , January 22, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Prokon founds a cooperative. In: Handelsblatt . March 25, 2014, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Till H. Lorenz: Ex-Prokon boss is now wooing shareholders. In: shz.de. April 28, 2014, accessed February 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Insolvency proceedings over the assets of PROKON Regenerative Energien GmbH. Az 28 IN 11/14. In: Insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de. Itzehoe District Court , accessed on April 8, 2014 : “A general prohibition of disposal is imposed on the debtor (Section 21 (2) No. 2 InsO); the authority to administer and dispose of the debtor's assets, including the right to collect bank balances and other claims, is thus transferred to the preliminary insolvency administrator. "
  8. ↑ Prokon insolvency administrator releases managing directors. In: Spiegel Online. April 1, 2014, accessed April 1, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Insolvency administrator separates from Prokon managing director. OnVista.de, April 1, 2014, accessed on April 1, 2014 : "'The activities of Mr. Rodbertus and Mr. Gronau for the cooperative as well as their most recent statements about Prokon have unfortunately left no room for constructive cooperation," said the Hamburg lawyer on Tuesday for the German Press Agency. "
  10. ↑ Prokon investors lose at least 40 percent. In: Zeit Online . May 2, 2014, accessed May 5, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Insolvency administrator: Chapter Carsten Rodbertus is over for Prokon. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, November 19, 2014, accessed June 12, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Gertrud Hussla: Prokon founder Rodbertus is withdrawing. In: handelsblatt.com. Handelsblatt, November 19, 2014, accessed on June 12, 2015 .
  13. ^ Spiegel-Online: Carsten Rodbertus - Prokon founder promotes opaque investments.
  14. ^ Christian August: Press release of the PmK. (No longer available online.) In: www.projekte-mit-konzept.de. September 16, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on February 11, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Carsten Rodbertus: Ex-Prokon boss in a new mission. Stiftung Warentest , September 26, 2014, accessed on April 3, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Henryk Hielscher: Ex-Prokon boss before personal bankruptcy. In: Wirtschaftswoche . wiwo.de, September 14, 2014, accessed on April 3, 2017 : "(One reason) why personal bankruptcy has not yet been initiated is the fact that I will move my place of residence"
  17. ^ Frontal 21. ZDF media library. (No longer available online.) March 10, 2015, archived from the original on October 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  18. ↑ Public prosecutor's office is investigating the Prokon boss. In: Handelsblatt . handelsblatt.com, July 15, 2014, accessed on June 12, 2015 : “The latest twist in the Prokon case: the Lübeck public prosecutor's office is now investigating company founder Rodbertus for delaying bankruptcy. He had previously tried to turn investors against the insolvency administrator. "
  19. ↑ Public prosecutor's office examines charges against Prokon. In: Spiegel Online. January 13, 2014, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  20. ^ Lars-Marten Nagel, Marc Neller: Wind energy manager under suspicion of bribery. In: The world . welt.de, April 13, 2013, accessed on April 18, 2014 .
  21. ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/my/unternehmen/energie/verfahren-gegen-gruender-rodbertus-eingetzt-prokon-war-kein-schneeballsystem/20284618.html
personal data
SURNAME Rodbertus, Carsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodbertus, Carsten Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and managing director of Prokon
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1961