Ekkehard Thiesler

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Ekkehard Thiesler (2014)

Ekkehard Helge Thiesler (* 1965 ) is a German banker and economist. Since 2005 he has been CEO of the Bank for Church and Diakonia .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1985, Thiesler began an apprenticeship at the local Volksbank and then studied business administration at the University of Mannheim . He did his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the subject of “Future viability of cooperative primary banks in Germany”.

In 1992 he completed a trainee program at DG Investment Bank in London in the Treasury and Mergers & Acquisition departments. This was followed by activities in the cooperative financial network. Among other things, he was a board member (focus on corporate customer business) at Volksbank Heilbronn. Since June 2005 he has headed the Bank for Church and Diakonia eG - KD-Bank - as chairman of the board. Here he pushed ahead with the introduction of a sustainability filter for the bank's own investments and, as part of the bank's offer of active securities ownership, advocates the exchange between church investors on the one hand and companies on the capital market on the other.

Honorary positions

Together with Peter Hommelhoff, he has represented the Federal Republic of Germany and its federal states on the finance committee of the international foundation for the preservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial since 2009. In addition, he works in various church and diaconal committees.

family

Ekkehard Thiesler is married and has one son.

Individual evidence

  1. Ekkehard Thiesler on the KD Bank website , accessed on November 17, 2015
  2. Dissertation , accessed on November 17, 2015
  3. ^ Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for Church and Diakonia , accessed on November 17, 2015
  4. Sustainability filter of the Bank for Church and Diakonie , accessed on November 17, 2015
  5. ^ Auschwitz Foundation: Finance Committee , accessed November 17, 2015