Eric Schweitzer

Eric Schweitzer, 2012

Eric Schweitzer (born July 24, 1965 in Ipoh , Malaysia ) is a German entrepreneur . Schweitzer runs the Alba Group together with his brother Axel Schweitzer . From 2004 to 2016 he was honorary president of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK Berlin). On March 20, 2013 he was elected President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Life

After graduating from the Georg-Herwegh-Oberschule in Berlin in 1983 , Eric Schweitzer studied business administration at the Free University in Berlin until 1987 . In 1990 he received his doctorate there. rer. pole. on the topic of regulatory problems in waste management . From 1994 to 2006 Schweitzer was a member of the executive committee of the Federal Association of German Waste Management, Water and Raw Materials Management. V. (BDE) and from 2003 to 2006 also its deputy president. He was also Vice President of the European Federation of Waste Management (FEAD) in Brussels between 1999 and 2003 . From 2010 to 2013 he was also a member of the Council for Sustainable Development , which advises the German government, among other things. Also member of the supervisory board of Berlin Partner GmbH and chairman of the ESCP Europe business school in Berlin . He was also a member of the FDP until summer 2012 . He is married, has two children and lives in Berlin.

Entrepreneur

After a stay in the United States in 1990 and working in the waste management industry there, he returned to Berlin and became a member of the management of the recycling company Alba founded by his father Franz Josef Schweitzer . In particular, he was responsible for the development and activities in the new federal states. In 1993, after the death of his brother Frank Schweitzer, two years older than him, he was appointed to the Alba board. After the early death of his father in 1998, he and his brother Axel Schweitzer formed the Alba Group, which had been in existence since January 2011, from the inherited companies Alba and Interseroh .

From 2004 to the end of 2016 Schweitzer was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in Berlin . In 2011 he became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation and from January 1, 2017 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carl Zeiss Foundation .

Web links

• Eric Schweitzer as the subject of the FAZ
• Flora Wisdorff: Eric Schweitzer: "The death of my brother made me an adult" . In: Die Welt , August 16, 2014, accessed May 25, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} CV. ALBA Group, September 5, 2012, accessed September 4, 2012 . 
2. ^ New President of the DIHK: Eric Schweitzer. European Movement Germany, March 20, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2018 . 
3. ^ Council for Sustainable Development. (No longer available online.) German Council for Sustainable Development, September 5, 2012, archived from the original on May 14, 2012 ; Retrieved September 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Florian Gathmann, Philipp Wittrock: Crisis of the Liberals: FDP voters desperately wanted . In: Spiegel Online , December 17, 2014.
5. ↑ Eric Schweitzer: Alba boss as DIHK president in conversation. dpa article in the Handelsblatt , July 17, 2012, accessed on March 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Tobias Miller: Founder of the recycling company was 63 years old / “Special entrepreneurial personality”: Alba boss Schweitzer died after an operation . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 20, 1998, accessed on March 22, 2018.
7. ^ Presidium of the IHK Berlin. (No longer available online.) IHK Berlin, September 5, 2012, archived from the original on March 22, 2018 ; accessed on March 22, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Homepage of the Friede Springer Foundation, May 30, 2014, accessed on March 22, 2018.