Claus-Peter Offen

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Claus-Peter Offen (born September 15, 1943 ) is a German shipowner and sports sailor.

Life and professional history

Claus-Peter Offen was born in Bavaria as the youngest of five children of the shipowner Emil Offen and grew up in Großhansdorf in Schleswig-Holstein . After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a shipping clerk at the ship broker Carl Bock in Hamburg . Since his father's shipping company closed shortly after his death in 1966, he first went to London and Paris to work in the shipping industry there. On June 1, 1971, at the age of 27, he bought the freighter Annie Hugo Stinnes (4000 tdw) launched in 1959 in bankruptcy proceedings before the Hamburg district court with the help of various loan commitments for 995,000 DM , renamed it Holstein and founded the Ship eight days later the shipping company Claus-Peter Offen GmbH & Co. KG .

Managing Director / CEO of the Offen Group

In the following years, Offen initially acquired used container ships ; the fleet grew to 12 cargo ships with up to 14,000 tdw each by 1978. In 1978 he commissioned a series of six multi-purpose container ships, each with 12,000 tdw / 576 TEU, from Seebeckwerft AG in Bremerhaven . Further orders followed, initially with Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH in Emden and Flender Werft AG in Lübeck , in which Offen himself participated in the 1990s. Even before Flender Werft AG went bankrupt in June 2002, Offen had relocated its ship production to Samsung Heavy Industries in Seoul and commissioned the construction of 19 new ships. This contract was completed at the end of 2002.

After the beginning of the shipping crisis in mid-2008, Offen got into trouble like numerous other shipping companies. In 2010, the Offen Group's fleet consisted of 44 ships with a total capacity of 1.6 million tdw or around 120,000 TEU. Due to orders already placed, it grew to 103 container ships with a total of 550,000 TEU, 16 tankers and four bulk carriers by 2012, despite the shipping crisis.
In 2013, Offen had to sell 14 container ships for the first time under pressure from financing banks.

As of December 31, 2014, Offen changed the name of his company and brought all business areas together in CPO Holding, which now acts as the parent company of the Offen Group. In 2014 the Offen Group had a total of 108 ships under management, which made a turnover of 674.5 million euros in 2014; CPO Holding comprised a fleet of 19 container ships with a total capacity of around 140,000 TEU, eight product tankers with a carrying capacity of 415,000 tdw and four bulk carriers with 720,000 tdw capacity, in which the holding has a stake of more than 50 percent, and made 260, 4 million euros in sales. In March 2017, the Offen Group took over the Conti Group (Munich).

Personal

Offen is a passionate sailor and owner of the Y3K , a Wally yacht with which he won the Maxi-Yacht - Rolex Cup in 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and thus the unofficial world championship in the Wally class. Since 2006 he has been President of the International Association of Maxi Yachts (IMA).

Offen is married to his fourth marriage and has a son from his first marriage and a son and daughter from his third marriage. His son Claus Oliver Offen is (as of August 2020) 'Managing Director' of the Offen Group.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.lloydslist.com/ll/incoming/article433887.ece
  2. ↑ a b Article in ManagerMagazin 2/2010, pp. 44–47
  3. ↑ Article in the SZ from May 10, 2010
  4. ↑ The situation in shipping is catastrophic , article in the FAZ, August 17, 2012
  5. ^ Rolf Zamponi: Reederei Offen has to sell 14 freighters , article in the Hamburger Abendblatt, January 22, 2013
  6. ↑ Frank Binder: Open looking for investors , THB - Deutsche Schifffahrts-Zeitung, September 29, 2015
  7. ↑ opengroup.de/conti
  8. ^ Message from the North German Regatta Association (NRV) v. September 14, 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.nrv.de
  9. ^ Lars Bolle: Hamburger Claus-Peter Offen new Maxi President , Yacht, Regatta News, September 8, 2006
  10. ↑ offengroup.de , accessed on June 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Openly, Claus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1943