Egon Geerkens

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Egon Geerkens (left) in 1988 at a donation handover in favor of the ZNS Board of Trustees in Bonn's Chancellor's Bungalow

Egon "Bubi" Geerkens (born August 16, 1944 in Osnabrück ) is a German entrepreneur.

Career

The trained electrician Geerkens made his first fortune repairing expensive accident vehicles. In the following years he traded in antiques and in 1972 took over the Emil Gudemann jewelry store in Osnabrück, which he expanded into an economically successful company. In the mid-1980s, he and a partner developed the Osnabrück Theater Passage, which was later sold to Iduna Insurance . In 1996 he acted as a private investor for the construction of the Luisenresidenz in Berlin-Mitte , 30% of which was financed through the "second funding path" of social housing . In 2010, he declared that he had allegedly not received any public funds in relation to Lower Saxony since 1978. In 2011 he emphasized that he did not trade real estate commercially, but only bought and developed it for private investment. Geerkens gave up his Osnabrück jewelry store in 2007; it was deleted from the commercial register.

After moving to Switzerland in 2003, he took part in a delegation trip with the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff to India and China in October 2008 as a “family entrepreneur” and , according to the magazine stern , to Japan in March 2009 and six months later to the USA . This was criticized, among other things, by SPD MP Wolfgang Jüttner , who could see no benefit for the Lower Saxony economy in Geerken's participation. In 2011, Geerkens stated that at this point in time "he had long since ceased to be an entrepreneur" and had paid for the entire trip himself.

Christian Wulff credit affair

Geerkens and his wife became known to a wider public in December 2011 as part of the credit affair surrounding the then German Federal President Christian Wulff . Wulff received 25 October 2008, 14 days after the return of the delegation to India and China, from the account of Edith Geerkens a personal loan over half a million euro to an annual rate of 4%, which it to finance his home in Großburgwedel used . Egon Geerkens had supported him in choosing the property . Geerkens later told Spiegel that he had negotiated the terms of the loan with Wulff. In addition, he is said to have established a contact for Wulff with his house bank Baden-Württembergische Bank (BW Bank), with whose loan Wulff replaced the personal loan . Wulff described Geerkens as an "almost fatherly friend" who was also a friend of his parents. Geerkens was the best man at both of Wulff's weddings in 1988 and 2008.

Private

Geerkens has been married to Edith (* approx. 1962), a former employee of his jewelry business, since the mid-1990s. The couple have two children. In 2003 he moved to Switzerland after living in Marbella in the meantime. He cited cancer as the reason for the move . Egon Geerkens lives in Lucerne on the shores of Lake Lucerne and has a residence in Coral Springs ( Florida ). Geerkens is described in the press as media-shy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "We were and are friends, people help each other" . Focus-Online. December 14, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e U. Ritzer: Geerkens, the friend with money In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Looted jewelry worth millions? Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , February 23, 2000, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c J. Korge: Rich with scrap and diamonds. In: Spiegel Online from December 13, 2011
  5. ↑ a b c Wulff friend Geerkens: "Christian had to rearrange his life". In: Spiegel Online from December 13, 2011
  6. ↑ a b fhv / like: Shimmering personality: Precious stones and real estate: The Wulff sponsor Egon Geerkens . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of December 14, 2011. Retrieved on October 114, 2015
  7. ^ Project: Residential and commercial building Luisenstrasse 48-52 on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de, accessed on December 19, 2011
  8. ↑ sk: DT receives a warehouse in the "Luisenresidenz": neighborhood help for the German theater . In: Berliner Zeitung of June 27, 1996. Retrieved December 18, 2011
  9. ↑ Christian Wulff . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2010 ( online ).
  10. ^ A b B. Erichsen: allegations against Christian Wulff: With the patron on trips . In: stern.de of December 14, 2011. Retrieved on December 18, 2011
  11. ↑ a b c d "Bubi", his wife, their money and the president ( Memento of April 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Germany of December 13, 2011
  12. ↑ Respect for the quick reaction of the State Chancellery (PDF; 71 kB). In: SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament, January 29, 2010. Retrieved on December 19, 2011
  13. Jump up ↑ Wulff's personal loan ( memento from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: ndr.de , December 14, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011
  14. ↑ Wulff's personal loan affair: Egon Geerkens helped negotiate . In: Manager Magazin, December 21, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2011
  15. ↑ heb: House loan affair: New allegations against Wulff . In: Spiegel Online of December 16, 2011. Accessed December 20, 2011
  16. ↑ SWIRL OF MONEY FOR THE FEDERAL PRESIDENT: Entrepreneur defends his wife's credit to Wulff. Image , December 15, 2011, accessed December 16, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Federal President in need of explanation: Geerkens arranged bank contact for Wulff. Financial Times Deutschland , December 14, 2011, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; Retrieved December 16, 2011 .
  18. ↑ M. Bewarder, U. Müller, M. Neller: Wulff, the house and the 500,000 euro loan. In: Die Welt from December 13, 2011
  19. ↑ Heb: New allegations against Wulff. In: Spiegel Online from December 16, 2011
  20. ↑ The armed robbers looked very nervous. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , February 22, 2000, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Geerkens, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geerkens, Bubi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück