Egon Herbert Harms
Egon Herbert Harms , generally Egon H. Harms , (born September 14, 1927 in Bremen ; † January 5, 2006 in Bremen) was a German automotive logistics entrepreneur.
biography
Family and work
Harms was the son of a shipyard worker from Bremen- Aumund . He still served as a soldier in World War II and was an American prisoner of war until 1946. From 1946 to 1954 he worked in the American Army in the transport sector and learned to be a freight forwarder . He was then employed by the Bremen automotive forwarding Wend shock & Pohl and car shipper A. Hegeler & Co .
In 1959 he started his own business by founding EH Harms Automobile-Logistics Bremen . The main business of the company was initially the shipping of private vehicles of the US soldiers stationed in Germany to America. In the more than 40 years that followed, Harms built a strong, internationally oriented group of companies for automotive logistics with around 1500 employees from up to 30 nations. As a shipowner, he also operated three ferries and several feeders in a joint venture with "K" Line . The KESS shipping company emerged from this joint venture in 2003 . In 2002 the BLG Logistics Group took a stake in the company. In 2003 Harms said goodbye to the active management of the group and took over the chairmanship of the advisory board. In 2009, BLG increased its shareholder share from 44 to 94 percent. The remaining six percent remained with the community of heirs Egon H. Harms.
Harms and his company, together with the Beck's brewery in Bremen and the Sail Training Association Germany, founded the DSST and thus enabled the conversion of the former lightship Reserve Sonderburg into the barque Alexander von Humboldt .
Harms was married twice; he and his first wife had 3 children. With his second wife he had two more. With this he repeatedly ensured that Russian children from the area around Chernobyl could go on vacation in Germany and received internships at German companies through his sponsorship group. He justified his social commitment: "I've been very lucky in life, but that also obliges". In 1998 the ex-President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev visited him . Both had other encounters.
Further memberships
- Since 1992 deputy board member of the German-Japanese Society in Bremen.
- Since 1996 honorary president of the German-American Club .
- 1981 founder and until 1996 president of the Bremen industrial club .
- Member of various advisory boards such as Deutsche Bahn AG and the Cologne-based Gerling Group .
Works
- Profits through fair play - a plea for humanity in management . Verlag Finanzbuch, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3932114051 .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1990)
- In memory of his life's work, the statue Agamemnon by the sculptor Waldemar Otto has been standing in the inner courtyard of BLG's headquarters on President-Kennedy-Platz since 2009 in Bremen-Mitte . The State Office for Monument Preservation in Bremen commented: "With the title of the sculpture, the artist compares [...] Harms with Agamemnon , who was also a good and courageous entrepreneur and who pursued his goals tenaciously and persistently."
- 1995 honorary citizen of the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
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Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harms, Egon Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harms, Egon H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 2006 |
| Place of death | Bremen |