Erck Rickmers
Erck Rickmers (born April 29, 1964 in Bremerhaven ) is a German entrepreneur and politician ( SPD ). From 2011 to 2012 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .
biography
education and profession
Rickmers comes from the Bremerhaven entrepreneurial family Rickmers, whose founding father Rickmer Clasen Rickmers founded the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven in 1834 . He attended the Louisenlund Foundation boarding school in Schleswig-Holstein . After high school and military service , he trained as a shipping agent in the shipping company Ernst Russ.
Rickmers later worked as a ship broker in London . In 1992 he founded the issuing house Nordcapital in Hamburg together with his brother Bertram Rickmers . He has been running the group alone since 1996. In 1998 he founded the shipping company ER Schiffahrt , one of the largest today ship manager for container ships in the world. In 2010 Rickmers resigned from active management.
The sales of Erck Rickmers GmbH & Cie. KG amounted to around EUR 382 million in the 2014 financial year, of which EUR 148 million from the operation of its own ships, EUR 123 million from ship management and crewing, EUR 95 million from direct investments and around EUR 13 million from fiduciary management.
politics
In mid-January 2011 Rickmers became a member of the SPD. In the state elections in Hamburg in 2011 , he stood at 13th place on the list for the SPD. From March 7, 2011 to August 31, 2012 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .
During his time as a Member of Parliament, Rickmers was Chairman of the Committee on Economy, Innovation and Media and a member of the Budget Committee and the Committee on Public Enterprises. He was also a member of the SPD parliamentary group's executive committee.
Foundation, endowment
Rickmers, who studied religious studies for three years at the University of Santa Barbara , founded The New Institute (formerly Humanities & Social Change ) in Hamburg, which promotes research into social change. In addition to the universities of Cambridge, Santa Barbara and Venice, the chair of Rahel Jaeggi is also benefiting, who uses the funds in the focus for the investigation of the topic “Crisis of Capitalism and Democracy”.
Private
Rickmers is married and has five daughters. He lives with his family in Hamburg.
literature
- Erik Lindner: 175 years of Rickmers . Hoffmann and Campe 2009, ISBN 978-3455501117 , pp. 241-280.
Web links
- Erck Rickmers on parliament watch.de
- Erck Rickmers on wahl.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ We didn't have much left except our name. Interview with Erck Rickmers in the Handelsblatt on July 7, 2010
- ↑ Federal Gazette : Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rickmers, Erck |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipowner and politician (SPD), MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremerhaven |