Dietrich Garlichs

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Dietrich Garlichs (born December 29, 1947 in Oldenburg ) is a German manager and was managing director of the German Diabetes Society (DDG) from 2010 to 2017 .

Life

Dietrich Nikolaus Garlichs studied politics, economics and law at the universities in Tübingen and Konstanz , where he also received his doctorate. He completed postgraduate studies at Harvard University in the United States as a Master of Public Administration (MPA). He then worked from 1975 to 1982 at the International Institute for Management and Administration of the Berlin Science Center , then for two years as assistant to the chairman of the board in the watch and jewelry industry ( Dugena ), before becoming head of the publishing office at Jahreszeiten Verlag and Hoffmann und Campe Verlag in Hamburg was (1984-1989).

In 1989 he took over the management of the German Committee for Unicef e. V. and in 1996 also became the chairman of the Unicef ​​Foundation he initiated. During his 18-year tenure, the organization's donations in Germany quadrupled from 25 to 100 million euros. The assets of the Unicef ​​Foundation increased under Garlichs from 0.25 million euros to 95 million euros. Garlichs is considered one of the most successful managers in the field of donation organizations.

In November 2007, Heide Simonis , at that time honorary chairwoman of the German Unicef, raised allegations in the press against Garlichs for allegedly awarding contracts to consultants and fundraisers that were too generous, which sparked a public debate on the trustworthiness of German Unicef ​​and other non-profit organizations making donations. The allegations against the German Unicef ​​were investigated on behalf of the management board by the auditing company KPMG , which in its report of January 14, 2008 found no violations of applicable law, but of self-imposed rules.

About two weeks later, on February 2, 2008, Simonis resigned from the board after the board had withdrawn her trust "to protect Unicef ​​from further damage and to enable a fresh start". She continued to publicly raise allegations against Garlichs, but the latter replied that Simonis had been informed of the allegations by him twice in meetings of the board of directors in the previous year, without she having seen any reason for further action at the time. In fact, Garlich's board of directors expressed its confidence several times before and after Simonis left the company. Garlichs turned in January 2008 several times with legal measures such counter-statements against allegations, but admitted on February 8, 2008, a public, have "(Given) at the enterprise level in terms of our self-imposed rules sloppiness. These are sloppinesses that we have to stop. I gladly accept this criticism ”, took over responsibility as managing director because of the loss of trust that had occurred in the past few weeks and resigned his position. The board of directors accepted this offer on February 13, 2008. About a week later the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) withdrew the German Unicef ​​for about two years and a. "In view of the serious management, supervisory and management errors that have come to light in recent weeks and the inadequate information behavior", the donation seal. In the following months, however, the public prosecutor's investigation initiated against Garlichs was discontinued.

From January 2009 to June 2011, Dietrich Garlichs was the founding managing director in charge of establishing the non-profit patient organization diabetesDE - German Diabetes Aid . In June 2010 he was also appointed managing director of the German Diabetes Society (DDG). Garlichs was commissioned to relocate the company to Berlin and to rebuild the office and to professionalise the company. The German Diabetes Society is now one of the largest medical and scientific societies with over 9,000 members.

In 2010 Garlichs founded the German Noncommunicable Diseases Alliance (DANK), of which he is the spokesperson. DANK is an amalgamation of 20 medical societies and research institutions, which is committed to better prevention of modern diseases of civilization such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ of February 10, 2008; Aachener Zeitung from April 5, 2008
  2. ↑ UNICEF: Faith dies last . In: FOCUS Online . S. UNICEF. February 11, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  3. ^ Kristian Frigelj: The dubious Unicef ​​contracts . In: Welt Online , February 5, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Garlich's explanation: "I apologize to everyone" . In: Spiegel Online , February 8, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013. 
  5. ↑ DZI: UNICEF Germany loses donation seal . forium.de. February 21, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ DDG information. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Stop the tsunami of chronic diseases: four measures for effective and population-wide prevention . In: Prevention and Health Promotion . tape 10 , no. 1 , February 2015, p. 95-100 .
  8. ↑ Four measures should stop chronic diseases. In: Spiegel Online. November 12, 2014, accessed February 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Dickes Problem. In Germany, more and more people are overweight. Four suggestions how to change this. S. Edition of November 10, 2017, p. 2 .
personal data
SURNAME Garlichs, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and managing director of the DDG (2010-2017)
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg