Dieter H. Vogel

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Dieter Hans Vogel (born November 14, 1941 in Eger , Reichsgau Sudetenland ) is a German mechanical engineer , industry manager and entrepreneur .

Life

Vogel studied engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and was at the Technical University of Munich to Dr.-Ing. PhD. He started his professional life in 1970 as assistant to the executive board of Bertelsmann AG , where he was promoted to deputy chairman of the technical company in 1974. In 1975 he moved to the board of directors of the Pegulan-Werke in Frankenthal, where he was chairman of the board from 1978 to 1985. Vogel developed the ailing company into the market leader in home furnishings. In 1980 British American Tobacco (BAT) in Germany, which had taken over a majority stake in Pegulan, appointed Vogel as deputy chairman of the board.

In 1986 Vogel was appointed CEO of Thyssen Handelsunion AG, which means that he was also a member of the Executive Board of Thyssen AG in Duisburg . In 1991 he was promoted to deputy chairman of Thyssen AG and finally in 1996 took over the chairmanship of the steel company, which had 120,000 employees at the time and an annual turnover of more than 40 billion DM. An investigation was initiated against Vogel and a dozen other Thyssen managers in 1995 for alleged breach of trust in the liquidation of the former GDR foreign trade company VEB Metallurgiehandel on behalf of the Treuhandanstalt , was stopped in 1998. The payment of 5 million euros was agreed upon as a condition for the termination of the proceedings, which Thyssen made with the consent of all parties involved. After defending against the takeover of Thyssen AG by the smaller KruppHoesch AG , Thyssen took over the majority of KruppHoesch Stahl AG at the beginning of 1997 under Vogel's management .

During the merger negotiations started a few months later by Vogel about the remaining areas of Friedrich Krupp AG , there were different views between Vogel and the Thyssen Supervisory Board. Vogel resigned in May 1998 and started his own business as managing partner of the private equity company Bessemer, Vogel & Treichl GmbH (BVT) in Düsseldorf. In 2007, BVT was merged with Lindsay Goldberg Vogel GmbH (LGV). Since 1999, Vogel has been chairman of the European operations of the Lindsay Goldberg funds, which manage more than $ 10 billion in equity.

As the successor to the chairman of the supervisory board, Reinhard Mohn , Vogel has been a member of the Bertelsmann AG supervisory board since 1991 and has since then also been a member of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft (BVG), which controls 100 percent of the voting rights of Bertelsmann AG. After Gerd Schulte-Hillen took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board in 2000, but was personally urged to resign by Bertelsmann patriarch Mohn in 2003, Vogel took over the supervisory board chairmanship of Bertelsmann AG again until the end of 2007. In August 2007, Reinhard Mohn appointed him chairman of the board of trustees of the non-profit Bertelsmann Foundation . He had been a member of the committee since January 2004. Mohn set up the foundation in 1977 to secure his life's work. In 2011, Vogel withdrew from the Bertelsmann Foundation for reasons of age, but remained associated with the Bertelsmann Group as a partner in the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft .

From March 24, 1999, Vogel was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG as chairman on the proposal of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to succeed Heinz Dürr , but left there on March 7, 2001 after disagreements with the then chairman of the board, Hartmut Mehdorn, on the question of the separation from the rail network and rail operations. Vogel was chairman of the supervisory board of the Büdelsdorf telecommunications company Mobilcom from 2003 to 2007 , after having worked out the restructuring plan with France Telecom on behalf of the federal government . Through his work for the New York financial investor Lindsay Goldberg, who acquired the traditional Duisburg trading company Klöckner & Co , Vogel became a shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board of the world's largest independent materials dealer in 2005. In the course of his career, Vogel was also a member of the supervisory board of Gerling , Commerzbank , Aachen Münchener Beteiligungs-AG and long-time chairman of the supervisory board of ABB and Wacker Neuson . In the field of internet-based companies, Vogel is a member of the supervisory board and shareholder of the Cologne media agency denkwerk GmbH . Vogel has also been an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2004 , where he holds lectures on mergers and acquisitions .

In addition to the Bertelsmann Foundation, Vogel holds a number of other non-profit positions. He has been chairman of the Friends of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 1999 , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Bayreuth Festival since 2010, and Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Karl Schiller Foundation since 2002. With his wife, who died in 2008, Vogel founded Ursula and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter H. Vogel Foundation ( sic ), endowed with endowment assets of € 1 million.

literature

• Dieter H. Vogel, M & A - Ideal and Reality , Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002. ISBN 3-409-11933-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Klaus Boers, Hans Theile and Kari-Maria Karliczek: Economy and criminal law - who regulates whom? In: Dietrich Oberwittler and Susanne Karstedt (eds.): Sociology of criminality. Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology, special issue 42 . VS, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 469-493 .
2. ↑ Dieter Vogel controls the foundation . In: New Westphalian . July 26, 2007.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Change in the chairmanship of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Board of Trustees. Werner Bauer takes over from Dieter Vogel. Bertelsmann Stiftung, November 15, 2011, accessed on May 15, 2020 (press release). 
4. ^ Death of an economic wise man . In: Spiegel Online. October 4, 2009, accessed October 1, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Dieter Vogel withdraws from the Bertelsmann Foundation . In: Rheinische Post . November 17, 2011.
6. ↑ No closure of the only German rail manufacturer TSTG Schienen Technik in Duisburg - takeover of the company by Deutsche Bahn AG
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2011 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.