Ernst von Freyberg

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Ernst Conrad Rudolf Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Allmendingen (born October 26, 1958 in Geneva ) is a German lawyer. He founded a consulting company in 1991, which he managed himself until the end of 2012. In addition, he leads the supervisory board of the traditional shipyard Blohm + Voss . From February 2013 to July 2014 he was President of the Vatican Bank Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR).

family

Von Freyberg comes from the Swabian noble family of Freyberg-Eisenberg . He is the eldest of three sons from the marriage of Ulrich von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1924–2020) and Brita Gertrud Blohm . His uncle is Georg von Freyberg-Eisenberg .

Ernst von Freyberg married the French banker Elisabeth Marie Bernadette Montagne on May 14, 2011 in the Preuilly monastery .

Life

education

Freyberg studied 1978-1985 jurisprudence at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and 1986/87 at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . He was a trainee lawyer at the Ulm Regional Court . In 1988 he passed his second state examination in law at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court .

Professional Activities

Career in business

From 1988 to 1991 he worked for TCR Europe Limited and Three Cities Research, Inc. , investment companies of the South American beverage company Bemberg Group (known primarily for the Quilmes brewery ), in London and New York.

In 1991 Freyberg founded “Quadriga Finanz” with Hambros Bank and Credit National. The company was based in Berlin, with a focus on advising on the privatization of East German companies by the Treuhandanstalt . In 1994 it changed its name to “Freyberg Hambros” and was increasingly involved in M&A transactions for medium-sized companies. In 1998 the British merchant bank Close Brothers took a 51 percent stake and "Freyberg Close Brothers" was created, private equity companies became an important customer group. At Close Brothers, Freyberg was CEO until December 2012. This was bought in 2009 by the Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities SMBC and operates today under the name "Daiwa Corporate Advisory GmbH" and is one of the leading independent corporate finance consultancies for medium-sized companies. In addition, he is / was a member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards, including Malteser Deutschland gGmbH , Vermögensverwaltung Flossbach von Storch AG, the temporary employment company Manpower GmbH and the IT service provider Magirus AG.

Von Freyberg has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Blohm + Voss shipyard since 2012 . Von Freyberg's mother was one of the heiresses of the Blohm family.

Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR)

On February 15, 2013, Freyberg was still with the consent of Pope Benedict XVI. appointed by the Cardinals' Commission of the IOR as President of the Supervisory Board - on February 11, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI. announced his resignation. Freyberg succeeded interim president Ronaldo Schmitz . Because of his participation in the Blohm + Voss shipyard , which also produces military equipment, his appointment received critical comments.

Von Freyberg considers his two most important tasks to be to create transparency within the structures and procedures of the IOR as well as to clear up and, if necessary, end criminal processes such as money laundering and tax evasion, with which the financial institution has been repeatedly associated in the past.

In the summer of 2013, the Nunzio Scarano scandal rocked the Vatican. Not the IOR, but the public prosecutor's office exposed Scarano's activities. The prelate was accused, among other things, of hiring an ex-secret agent to smuggle 20 million euros in black money for a shipowner's family from Switzerland to Italy. In addition to Scarano, a former employee of the Italian secret service and a financial service provider were arrested. Because of the Scarano scandal, IOR general director Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli had to resign. That was embarrassing for von Freyberg, who had previously spoken of a “good team” in an interview with Cipriani and Tulli.

Following the resignation of General Director Cipriani and his deputy Tulli, von Freyberg took over the post of General Director on July 1, 2013. On November 30, 2013, von Freyberg was replaced as General Director by the newly appointed Rolando Marranci.

In July 2014 Ernst von Freyberg resigned as President of the IOR. "In phase one we had to check all accounts to make sure that every customer with us should also be a customer. The second is to investigate the big cases of the past, which are always present as rumors. There we have Once the real facts have been established. Third: We have created transparency in particular by posting our annual financial statements on the Internet, just like any other financial institution in the world, "said Ernst von Freyberg in an interview with ARD.

According to the FASZ of July 6th, he had about 1,400 accounts closed; his successor as CEO will be the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Douville de Franssu . The Vatican confirmed this on July 9, 2014.

Manage your own assets

Ernst von Freyberg is the manager of the family's own forestry in Baden-Württemberg and co-owner of Allmendingen Castle .

Other engagement

He is a knight of the Order of Malta and as such is active in accompanying the pilgrimages to Lourdes and as treasurer of the German Association of the Order of Malta.

The Order of Malta appointed Ernst von Freyberg as a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Patient Protection from 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b End for a reformer: German head of the Vatican Bank leaves . July 1, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b tagesschau.de: Pope makes German knight head of the Vatican Bank , February 15, 2013
  3. ^ Ulrich von Freyberg-Eisenberg obituary notice , FAZ from May 22, 2020, accessed on May 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Von Freyberg marries ( memento from February 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Südwest Presse, March 12, 2011
  5. ↑ Stefan Jaecker to be the new CEO of DC Advisory in Germany , Finanz.Net, December 19, 2012
  6. ↑ Daiwa to buy Close Brothers' arm
  7. ↑ History , dcadvisory.com July, accessed 3rd 2014
  8. ↑ Andrea Bachstein: Under one roof with the Pope. Vatican Bank boss Ernst von Freyberg. , In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 1, 2013
  9. ↑ Stefan Schultz: German Knight of Malta becomes head of the Vatican Bank. , Spiegel Online, February 15, 2013
  10. ^ Nikos Tzermias: The German Ernst von Freyberg becomes the new President of the IOR. , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 16, 2013
  11. ↑ Communiqué of the Press Office of the Holy See: Appointment of the New President of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for the Works of Religion , news.va, February 15, 2013
  12. ^ Alessandro Speciale: Ernst von Freyberg: Controversial New Vatican Bank President Appointed By Pope Benedict. Huffington Post, February 15, 2013
  13. ↑ Bernd Hagenkord: "We are not a bank": Interview with IOR - President von Freyberg. Vatican Radio, May 31, 2013.
  14. ↑ Guy Dinmore, Rachel Sanderson: God's new banker brings Teutonic thoroughness to Vatican. Financial Times, May 31, 2013
  15. ↑ Philip Pullella: New Vatican bankhead says mission is total transparency. Reuters, June 13, 2013
  16. ↑ Ulric Papendick: The Vatican Bank should be clean by 2015. , manager magazin, July 18, 2013
  17. ↑ Rachel Donadio: Vatican Bank Looks to Shed Its Image as an Offshore Haven. , New York Times, May 30, 2013
  18. ↑ Vatican Bank director resigns after suspicion of corruption , FAZ from July 1, 2013
  19. ↑ Tobias Bayer: Top managers fall over money laundering scandal. Die Welt, July 2, 2013
  20. ↑ Vatican bankers step down. , Süddeutsche.de, July 1, 2013
  21. ↑ Vatican Bank gets new General Director , handelsblatt.com, November 30, 2013
  22. ↑ FASZ, p. 19: In the deep swamp of the Vatican Bank ; See also FAZ.net July 2, 2014: Interview with the French as the new head of the Vatican Bank
  23. ↑ Vatican Radio : Daily News from July 9, 2014 (with further links)
  24. ^ Ernst Freiherr von Freyberg becomes head of the Vatican Bank. (No longer available online.) Malteser Hilfsdienst, February 15, 2013, archived from the original on May 13, 2014 ; accessed on July 15, 2014 .
  25. ^ Members of the Board of Trustees. German Foundation for Patient Protection, June 16, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Freyberg, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freyberg-Eisenberg, Ernst Conrad Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva