Christian Jacobs

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Johann Christian Jacobs (born February 2, 1962 in Bremen ) is a German lawyer and entrepreneur .

Life

Jacobs is the eldest son of the entrepreneur and patron Klaus J. Jacobs (1936–2008) from the Bremen coffee roaster dynasty (brands: Jacobs Krönung , Milka , Toblerone etc.). His younger brother from his father's first marriage is Andreas Jacobs (born 1964). He has four half-siblings from the second marriage of Klaus J. Jacobs. Her great-great-uncle is Johann Jacobs (1869–1958), the founder of the Jacobs company (see also the section: Family ).

The high school he made at the Old School in Bremen . After completing his military service, he studied law and business administration in Freiburg i. Br. , Munich and Aix-en-Provence . He passed the first state examination in law in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1991 he passed the Great State Examination in Hamburg . In 1991 he did his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau on the Bremen Farm Act .

From 1988 to 1989 he worked as a trainee lawyer in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels , from 1990 to 1991 he worked for Roland Berger , the globally active management consultancy , in Tokyo .

Legal activity

In 1992 he joined the supra-local European law firm Büsing, Müffelmann & Theye in Bremen. The relationship with the Kirch Group dates from this time . It was also during this period that he advised Adia Interim, now Adecco SA, on the liberalization of the temporary employment market in several European countries. In particular, Jacobs led the Adia Interim proceedings against the Italian state monopoly on temporary work and employment agencies, which was dissolved by the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Job Center II case.

From 1996 to 2002 and since 2013 partner of the law firm Huth Dietrich Hahn in Hamburg , 2002–2013 as partner of the US law firm White & Case , Jacobs focuses on capital market related mergers & acquisitions advice.

Entrepreneurial activity

Jacobs is a managing partner at Joh. Jacobs & Co., Hamburg. The subsidiary Sentosa Beteiligungs GmbH, which specializes in investments, acquired Infront Sports & Media (previously Kirch Sports) in 2002 together with Robert Louis-Dreyfus and Jacobs Holding , which was sold in 2011. In 2008, the investment company Sentosa held 6.7 percent of CeWe Color Holding AG, which it had acquired from the company together with Norddeutsche Landesbank when the company was defending itself against US hedge funds. Sentosa has been the leading shareholder in Hemro AG since 2011, which it claims to be the world's leading supplier of coffee grinders with the brands Ditting, Mahlkönig , Anfim and HeyCafé. Sentosa has also been a partner at Jacobs Douwe Egberts since 2014.

From 2001 to 2004 Jacobs was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jacobs Holding AG and was responsible for successfully focusing business activities on the three holdings Adecco SA, Barry Callebaut AG and the acquisition of Infront Sports & Media. He handed over the presidency of Jacobs Holding to his younger brother, Andreas Jacobs, in the summer of 2004 when the US stock exchange regulator raised allegations against Adecco SA, which later proved to be unfounded.

social commitment

Jacobs was u. a. since 1995 member of the Board of Trustees / Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation. From 2004 until the end of March 2015 he was its chairman. As part of the generation transition in the family at Jacobs Holding and the Jacobs Foundation, Lavinia Jacobs, the younger sister, took over the presidency of the Jacobs Foundation. Jacobs was made honorary president.

Jacobs was a member and Vice President of the Board of Governors of Jacobs University Bremen from the end of 2006 to the end of 2017. He negotiated the Jacobs Foundation's investment of EUR 200 million in the then International University Bremen in 2006, as well as the commitment of the Jacobs Foundation from 2013 to invest a further EUR 100 million from 2018 if the goals associated with the transformation of Jacobs University are achieved. This goal was met in June 2018, thus securing the future of the university in the long term, combined with the state of Bremen's waiver of a shareholder loan that replaced equity capital already granted in 2003.

Jacobs is u. a. also member of the executive committee of the German Society for Foreign Policy, a think tank for German foreign policy, member of the board of trustees of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth eV and member of the senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the acatech board of trustees. German Academy for Technical Sciences.

family

Jacobs is married to Annette Jacobs and has three children. He lives with his family in Hamburg and Singapore. Jacobs and his younger sister Lavinia are executors of their father's will. Jacobs has five younger siblings.

family tree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Daniel Jacobs
1839–1908 married
. with Adelheid
1838–1871
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jacob Jacobs
1866–1952 married
. with Gesine
1881–1973
 
 
 
 
 
 Johann Jacobs
1869–1958 married
. with Pauline
1874–1951
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Meta Ehlebracht
1904–1996
 
 Daniel Jacobs
1905-1998
 
 Walther Johann Jacobs
1907–1998 married
. married to Lore
1911–1977
. with Inge
1915-2007
 
 Johann Hinrich Jacobs
1909–1926
 
 Anita Juergens
1911-2003
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Klaus Johann Jacobs
1936–2008 married
. Silvia
married. with Renata
 
 
 Bärbel Jacobs
* 1939
 
 
 Petra Stelling
* 1943
 
 Jens Jacobs
* 1947
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Johann Christian Jacobs
* 1962
 
 Andreas Jacobs
* 1963
 
 Lavinia Jacobs
* 1980
 
 Nicolas Jacobs
* 1982
 
 Philippe Jacobs
* 1984
 
 Nathalie Jacobs
* 1985


Publications

  • The Bremen Farm Law. Historical development and systematic presentation . Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris, 1992 (= European University Theses Series 2, Law. Vol. 1189). ISBN 978-3-631-44375-0
  • "International Cocoa Agreement - Legal Problems in Connection with the Dissolution of the Compensatory Camp Using the Example of Germany and France" in Agricultural Law, Issue 11, Volume 27, Fixed Edition for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Karl Kroeschell, pages 379-383, November 1997
  • Tolley's “International Succession Laws”, chapter on Germany, loose-leaf collection, ongoing, December 2001 to December 2013
  • Tolley's “Planning and Administration of Off-Shore and On-Shore Trusts”, chapter on Germany, loose-leaf collection, ongoing, April 2001 to December 2013

See also

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. deutsche-biographie.de: Jacobs, Johann
  2. ↑ worldcat.org
  3. ↑ zeit-konferenz.de - accessed on June 23, 2014
  4. ↑ ECJ December 11, 1997 C-55/96, Glg. 1997, I-7119, EuZW 1998, 274
  5. ^ Huth Dietrich Hahn , accessed on October 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ jacobs-university.de: Governance - accessed on June 23, 2014
  7. ↑ ir.cewe.de: CeWe Color Holding AG: Jacobs nominated as a candidate for the Supervisory Board - accessed on June 23, 2014. - The stake in Infront Sports & Media was sold in 2013 to the British financial investment company Bridgepoint Capital.
  8. ↑ Handelszeitung (ch): Andreas Jacobs / Markus Fiechter: “Exercise rights as a shareholder” (Mélanie Rietmann, March 23, 2005) - accessed on June 23, 2014
  9. ↑ Web presence at jacobsfoundation.org. One of the foundation fed by dividends from the holdings of the family holding (mainly Adecco and Barry Callebaut). (handelszeitung.ch: Andreas Jacobs / Markus Fiechter: “Exercise rights as a shareholder” (Mélanie Rietmann, March 23, 2005)) - accessed on June 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Johann Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen