Erivan Haub

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Erivan Karl Matthias Haub (born September 29, 1932 in Wiesbaden ; † March 6, 2018 in Pinedale , Wyoming , United States ) was a German entrepreneur and co-owner of the Tengelmann Group , which he headed from 1969 to 2000. Erivan Haub was one of the richest Germans; his fortune was listed on the Forbes 2014 list at about $ 5.2 billion.

Life

Erivan Haub was the only child of Erich and Elisabeth Haub , b. Schmitz-Scholl. His mother came from the Mülheim entrepreneur family Schmitz-Scholl, who u. a. owned the retail chain Tengelmann. In 1934 Elisabeth and Erich Haub bought a forest farm near Idstein im Taunus, where their son Erivan grew up. The family does not know the origin of the rare first name Erivan , which is a family tradition; In an interview, son Karl-Erivan Haub suggested that the name of ancestors could have come from the Armenian capital Yerevan (Yerevan).

After the end of the Second World War, Haub passed his Abitur in Idstein in 1952 and then completed two commercial training programs in America at the Jewel Tea Company in Chicago and the Alpha-Beta Company in La Habra . In 1958 he married. After returning from the USA, he began studying economics at the University of Hamburg , which he graduated with a diploma in 1959 in Mainz . Trainee programs at a Frankfurt real estate company and Commerzbank followed . In 1963, Haub joined the family-owned Tengelmann group. After the death of his uncle Karl Schmitz-Scholl in March 1969, he became the sole managing partner of the family company, which at that time owned around 400 branches and a chocolate factory; sales amounted to DM 1.2 billion. On January 1, 2000, Haub handed over management to his sons Karl-Erivan W. Haub , who had been responsible for European business since 1997, and Christian WE Haub , who ran the American subsidiary A & P headed. From 2000 to 2012 Erivan Haub was chairman of the group's advisory board.

Erivan Haub had been married to Helga Haub, nee Otto, since 1958, whom he met while studying in Hamburg. The couple had three sons - Karl-Erivan W. Haub (* 1960), Georg RO (* 1962) and Christian WE (* 1964) - and lived in Wiesbaden ; he withdrew into private life on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He died a few days after his diamond wedding on his Wyoming ranch.

Management of the Tengelmann Group

Under Haub's leadership, the Tengelmann Group expanded through acquisitions and start-ups at home and abroad. Particularly noteworthy are the takeover of what was once the largest competitor, Kaiser's Kaffee Geschäfts AG (1971), the establishment of the Plus discount chain and the stake in the American The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company , A & P for short , in New Jersey (1979). At times Tengelmann held more than 50% of the shares in A & P; In 2012 the engagement was given up. With the entry into the holding company of the DIY chain Obi (1985), Haub diversified into the non-food trade, and with the acquisition of Modea (1990) and the establishment of KiK (1994) he also gained a foothold in the textile market. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he invested in Eastern Europe for the first time in 1984 and acquired a stake in Skala-Coop, Hungary's largest private retail company.

In 1993, on the 100th birthday of the Tengelmann chain of branches, Erivan K. Haub reported group sales that exceeded the DM 50 billion mark; This made the Mülheim company one of the largest food chain operations in the world. In the following years, however, the trading giant got into economic difficulties, so that after taking over the management from their father, his sons had to subject the company to a rigorous restructuring and consolidation, which also included the sale of numerous subsidiaries and affiliated companies.

Ecological and political commitment

The ecological commitment of his family, which u. a. Manifested in the establishment of various foundations for the enactment and improvement of legal provisions in environmental protection, Erivan K. Haub expanded to the branch area of ​​the group of companies and used the numerous sales outlets as communication vehicles: the introduction of unleaded petrol at the company's own petrol stations and the delisting of turtle soup and frogs' legs formed the start of a comprehensive environmental action program in 1984; The frog and turtle became the group's environmental trademarks. With the consistent delisting of environmentally harmful products such as phosphate-containing heavy duty detergents and CFC-containing spray cans and the product-policy preference for returnable bottles, energy-saving lamps and material-saving packaging, the entrepreneur took on a recognized pioneering role in the implementation of environmentally conscious consumer habits both within the industry and on a socio-political level, which has been confirmed by numerous awards .

Since 1994 he has supported Helmut Kohl's election campaigns . He also helped him in the CDU donation affair of the Union. Haub transferred a six-figure amount in early 2000 when Kohl had to answer for the party's financial damage. For a while he was part of the business group who advised Kohl.

After leaving the operational business of the Tengelmann Group, Haub remained closely associated with environmental protection: In 2012 , he had the Abril winery in Bischoffingen am Kaiserstuhl , which belonged to his wife Helga's family, converted into a completely CO 2 -neutral operation.

Collector

Erivan Haub was a philatelist and collector of old clocks. Since his youth he built up his extensive stamp collection as a reflection of the historical - not just postal history - development of the middle of the 19th century. It contained numerous world-class rarities, including a number of pieces from the collections of Philipp von Ferrary , Arthur Hind , Maurice Burrus and John R. Boker . Examples are one of only three existing Baden misprints 9 Kreuzer on cover and an unused block of 15 of the black ones with tête-bêche . In the old German philately, the Haub collection is considered to be the most complete collection ever compiled, which even surpasses the Ferrary and Boker collections. In the period from June 2019 to 2023, the Erivan Collection will be auctioned in more than thirty auctions by the auction houses Heinrich Köhler in Wiesbaden, HR Harmer in New York and Corinphila in Zurich.

philanthropist

Haub was a sponsor and sponsored numerous projects a. a. in Mülheim an der Ruhr, the headquarters of the family business, and in his hometown Wiesbaden. He also supported the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation , the Münzkabinett in the Bode-Museum Berlin, the Frankfurt Städel and several art museums in the USA, as well as Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia / USA, the York University in Toronto / Canada and the University of Wyoming , where the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources is dedicated to teaching and researching ecological relationships.

honors and awards

Idstein, Erivan-Haub-Halle

Haub's far-reaching environmental commitment has been recognized with numerous awards and honors - including the appointment as the first eco-manager of the year (1990) by Capital magazine and the WWF . In addition, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia in 1992 ; In 1996 he received the Leo M. Goodman Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany in recognition of his services to improving German-American relations. In 2004 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and in the same year the German Sports Aid Foundation awarded him the Pyramid of Honor . In 2005 the City of Wiesbaden received the Gold Citizen Medal , and in 2007 the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2008 the city of Idstein in the Taunus made him an honorary citizen, and the city of Mülheim awarded him the city's ring of honor from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 2013, Haub became an honorary citizen of the community of Hinterzarten in the Upper Black Forest.

In Idstein, the Erivan-Haub-Kreisel and the Erivan-Haub-Halle are named after him.

literature

  • Wolfgang Maassen: IPHLA 2012 - Erivan Haub: global group leader and most important classic collector in Germany. In: philately. No. 423, September 2012, p. 29 f.
  • Press archive / Historical company archive of the Tengelmann Group: Erivan Haub - 80 years. Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tengelmann Group mourns longstanding boss , March 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Erivan Haub & family . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed February 16, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Tengelmann and the Schmitz-Scholl family . In: The West / Ruhr Revue . April 11, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Karl-Erivan Haub in an interview | "Mr. Tengelmann" is now speaking . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on April 15, 2018]).
  5. ^ Die Zeit, November 22, 2012, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Tengelmann boss Erivan Haub died at the age of 85. In: faz.net. March 12, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Erwin Haub. Handelsblatt, February 1, 2011, accessed on August 31, 2019 .
  8. ^ Auction house Heinrich Köhler (Ed.): 1st auction. The ERIVAN collection. Saturday 8th June 2019 . Heinrich Köhler auction house, Wiesbaden 2019, digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com%2Fhk-files%2FPDFs%2F370%2FERIVAN_Altdeutsche-Staaten_web.pdf~GB%3D~IA%3D~ MDZ% ​​3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D (auction catalog).
  9. ^ Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming , accessed September 7, 2012
  10. ↑ Badische Zeitung: Helga and Erivan Haub are now honorary citizens of Hinterzarten , accessed on January 7, 2013.
  11. ↑ Mourning Erivan Haub, in: Wiesbadener Kurier, March 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Haub, Erivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haub, Erivan Karl Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur (Tengelmann)
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2018
Place of death Pinedale, Wyoming