David Groenewold

David Groenewold (2012)

David Alexander Groenewold [ ˈgroːnəˌwɔlt ] (born March 26, 1973 in Berlin ; † July 3, 2019 ) was a German film producer .

Life

Groenewold's father Erich worked as a tax advisor and financed a few films, including Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo . Kurt Groenewold , a lawyer, is a paternal uncle.

David Groenewold on the day of his acquittal on the way to the Hanover regional court

After graduating from the Schloss Salem boarding school , Groenewold studied political science and economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) and graduated with a bachelor's degree .

He then worked as an intern at the Late Show with David Letterman in New York, at the investment bank Merrill Lynch in London and at a management consultancy and completed further studies at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, which he obtained with the title of real estate economist (ebs ) completed.

In 1997 he founded the production company Promedium Gesellschaft für Medienfinanzierung mbH in Berlin . Since 2001 he was the managing director of German Filmproduction GmbH . David Groenewold held an indirect 42% stake in Odeon Film through GFP Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH & Co, KG .

On April 12, 2013, Groenewold was charged by the Hanover public prosecutor's office . The charges were allegations of bribery and making false testimony under oath. His friend, Federal President a. D. Christian Wulff , was also charged. The Hanover Regional Court acquitted both of them.

In the fall of 2015, Groenewold suffered a stroke , and an autoimmune brain disease was diagnosed in connection with the treatment .

Groenewold died on July 3, 2019 at the age of 46. No more precise information was given about the cause of death.

Promedium Asset Management GmbH

In 2010, the Berlin regional court convicted Groenewold under civil law to pay a guarantee of 250,000 euros to a customer of Promedium Asset Management GmbH, in which he held a 50% stake. The company specialized in financial investments. Groenewold's business partner had betrayed the customer and forged documents without Groenewold's knowledge. A large part of the entrusted funds could not be repaid. Groenewold's business partner and managing director of the company was sentenced to four years in prison in 2007 for breach of trust and forgery of documents .

Connections to Christian Wulff

In the context of the Wulff affair about invitations and vacation trips of the former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and Federal President Christian Wulff , various links between Wulff and Groenewold became known. Because of the initial suspicion of accepting and granting benefits, the Hanover public prosecutor's office began investigations by the public prosecutor on February 16, 2012 and applied for the waiver of immunity. A day later Christian Wulff resigned from his office.

On July 7, 2005, Groenewold invited around 150 guests, including numerous filmmakers and actors, to a festive dinner in the “China Lounge” in the Berlin Hotel Adlon “in honor of the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff”. The occasion was the award of the German Film Prize. In his dinner speech, Wulff demanded, in the spirit of the host, the receipt of tax subsidies for the German film.

Also in 2005, Groenewold placed a double-sided advertisement for 20,000 euros for the film Erkan & Stefan in The Death Comes Krass in the members' magazine of the Lower Saxony CDU - Magazin für Niedersachsen . The costs are seen as excessive in media circles.

Also in 2005 Groenewold paid the author Karl Hugo Pruys 10,000 euros . He initially stated that the work on a biography about Christian Wulff was rewarded. Pruys later retracted this statement.

In 2006, Groenewolds Odeon Film received a Lower Saxony state guarantee for four million euros through the letterbox company "Waterfall Productions GmbH". Waterfall Productions never made a film and was deleted from the commercial register of the Hanover District Court in 2010.

In 2007 Groenewold paid the bill for the Wulff family to stay at the Hotel Stadt Hamburg on Sylt . According to information from Wulff's lawyer Gernot Lehr , Wulff Groenewold is said to have reimbursed the costs later in cash.

In 2008 Groenewold paid part of the hotel costs for the Wulff family for a stay at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich during the Oktoberfest .

On April 12, 2013, the Hanover Public Prosecutor brought charges of bribery and corruption at the Hanover Regional Court against Wulff and Groenewold. The court admitted the indictment on August 27, 2013, but reduced the allegation to granting and accepting benefits . On February 27, 2014, like his co-defendant Wulff, he was acquitted, but cautioned because of a false affidavit . The public prosecutor's office appealed against the judgment on March 5, 2014, but withdrew it on June 13, so that the acquittal is final .

Filmography (selection)

• 2004: The wanker
• 2006: The Red Cockatoo
• 2007: The three robbers
• 2008: Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
• 2008: The wave
• 2012: Zettl

Web links

• David Groenewold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• David Groenewold at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Alexander Groenewold died at the age of 46 , t-online.de, published and accessed on July 5, 2019
2. ^ A romantic businessman Die Zeit, June 6, 2007
3. ↑ Personal details: David Groenewold Berliner Morgenpost, June 10, 2008
4. ↑ Correct saving box handelsblatt.de May 10, 2007
5. ^ The partner FAZ, September 5, 2009
6. ↑ Berlin film producer Groenewold has died. Retrieved July 5, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The film producer David Groenewold is dead. Accessed July 7, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Berlin film producer Groenewold has died. Retrieved July 5, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Wulff's Revier Spiegel Online, June 28, 2010
10. ↑ How Wulff helped his friend Groenewold ( Memento from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ndr.de, February 14, 2012
11. ↑ How Wulff also helped a friend politically Zeit Online, February 15, 2012
12. ↑ Book project about Wulff raises new questions on Spiegel Online, January 10, 2012
13. ↑ What did Groenewold want and get from Wulff ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ndr.de, January 26, 2012
14. ^ Document exonerates Wulff in the Groenewold case sueddeutsche.de, February 13, 2012
15. ^ "Constructed cover-up allegation" sueddeutsche.de, February 8, 2012
16. ↑ Wulff was invited to Oktoberfest Spiegel Online, January 14, 2012
17. ↑ Sylt vacation brings Wulff back in need of explanation stern.de, February 8, 2012
18. ↑ A historical process . The daily mirror. April 13, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
19. ^ Public prosecutor's office brings charges against Wulff . Southgerman newspaper. April 12, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
20. ↑ Documentation: The indictment against Wulff and Groenewold . Mirror online. April 12, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
21. ↑ Press release in the proceedings against C. Wulff et al. Hanover Regional Court, accessed on February 27, 2014 . 
22. ↑ Martin U. Müller: Accusation of taking advantage: Wulff has to go to court. spiegel.de, August 27, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2013 . 
23. ^ Acquittal for Christian Wulff , süddeutsche.de from February 27, 2014.
24. ↑ Judgment of the Hanover Regional Court, Az. 40 KLs 6/13 (PDF, 441 kB)
25. ^ Corruption process: Public prosecutor appeals against Wulff's acquittal , Spiegel Online from March 5, 2014.
26. ↑ Revision of the public prosecutor's office withdrawn ( memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. , Press release from the Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office of June 13, 2014, accessed on June 13, 2014.