August François von Finck

August François von Finck , known as François von Finck (born May 2, 1968 ) is a German-born investor with Swiss citizenship . He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mövenpick Group and SGS SA , and a member of the Supervisory Board of Custodia Holding AG and Staatliche Mineralbrunnen AG .

family

His great-grandfather Wilhelm von Finck was a German banker and co-founder of Allianz Versicherungsgesellschaft , Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft and other companies. François von Finck's parents are August von Finck junior , a former banker and also an investor, and Francine von Finck, née Le Tanneux von Saint Paul . François von Finck has two younger brothers, Maximilian Rudolf and Luitpold Ferdinand and a sister, Maria-Theresia. His official place of residence is Pfäffikon in the political municipality of Freienbach on Lake Zurich in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland .

School and education

François von Finck attended the boarding school The Darrow School in New Lebanon in the state of New York and studied first at the School of Languages ​​and Linguistics with a focus on German and then at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, DC There he received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration in 1999 .

Professional activities

François von Finck has been a member of the State Board of Directors since 2001 . Mineralbrunnen AG in Bad Brückenau , since July 2001 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Carlton-Holding AG in Allschwil , Switzerland, which almost 100% controls Mövenpick . Through the Finck shareholder group , he is a partner in the globally active Swiss industrial group Von Roll Holding AG . His family controls the majority of the voting rights there. The group von Finck is also with 14.96% (until November 11, 2009: 25.5%) of the capital and voting rights in the international Swiss Warenprüfkonzern Societe Generale de Surveillance involved (SGS SA) and François von Finck, where it holds at least 3% of the shares.

Furthermore, François von Finck has been a member of the supervisory board of Finck'schen Beteiligungs- und Immobiliengesellschaft Custodia Holding AG , based in Munich, since 1999 - a company that took over 25.8% of Hochtief AG shares in 2006 and in spring 2007 with around half a billion Euro profit resold.

In May 2004, François von Finck was elected to the Supervisory Board of RHI AG and held 9% of the shares. In mid-July 2005, François von Finck left and at the beginning of September 2005 reduced his RHI stake to below 5%.

Since September 23, 2009, François von Finck has also been on the Board of Directors of Geotherma AG in Zug , Switzerland.

François von Finck also initiated the establishment of Bank von Roll AG , based in Zurich, which began operations at the end of January 2009. In 2015, François von Finck was a major shareholder in the bank with over 30,000 shares and thus held more than 90% of the company's voting rights. In March 2015 he made the free shareholders an offer to buy the remaining shares.

Party donations

In January 2010, Spiegel Online reported on party donations from the von Finck family, who run 14 hotels in Germany, to the German FDP . Accordingly, between October 2008 and October 2009, she transferred 1.1 million euros to the FDP via her Düsseldorf-based Substantia AG . Due to their majority stake in the Mövenpick Group - indirectly controlled by François von Finck as Chairman of the Board of Directors (Carlton-Holding AG) - the donations were criticized by the opposition parties in the German Bundestag. They saw a connection between the donation to the FDP and the tax relief operated by this party for hotel companies in Germany through the so-called Growth Acceleration Act , which came into force on January 1, 2010. The father, August von Finck, is now accused of support from the AfD .

See also

• Finck (entrepreneurial family)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Discrete shops, Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28, 2009 ( Memento of July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ “Bilanz - Das Schweizer Wirtschaftsmagazin”, No. 7/10 of April 9, 2010, p. 33f.
3. ↑ 2004 balance sheet
4. ↑ Cantonal Council resolution on granting cantonal citizenship to persons of foreign nationality. Canton Schwyz, April 12, 2006 (accessed on April 12, 2006) ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 30 kB)  
5. ↑ Ch.linkedin.com (accessed January 20, 2010)
6. ↑ http://www.vonroll.com/media/files/verwaltungsrat/100601_CV_AFvF.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ State. Mineralbrunnen AG Annual Report 2008. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 31, 2009 ; Retrieved February 24, 2010 . 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. (PDF; 6.8 MB)  
8. ↑ Group structure and Von Roll shareholders (accessed January 20, 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
9. ↑ (accessed on February 12, 2010) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
10. ↑ (accessed on February 12, 2010) ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 0 kB) 
11. ↑ SGS SA, buyback of own shares (accessed on January 20, 2010) ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
12. ^ Custodia, Company Law Basics (accessed on January 20, 2010)
13. ^ August Francois von Finck elected to the Supervisory Board of RHI AG. (No longer available online.) In: RHI AG. May 28, 2004, archived from the original on October 21, 2016 ; accessed on October 22, 2016 . 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.  
14. ↑ Major shareholder Finck probably left RHI for good. In: derStandard.at. October 18, 2005, accessed October 22, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Geotherma AG c / o ALLTAX AG REGION ZURICH (accessed on January 20, 2010)
16. ↑ Handelsblatt from January 26, 2009 ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
17. ^ Bank von Roll AG: François von Finck submits purchase offer for the remaining shares. In: schweizeraktien.net. March 31, 2015, accessed October 20, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Entrepreneur donated 1.1 million euros to the FDP, Spiegel Online (accessed on January 20, 2010)
19. ↑ Million donation to the FDP triggers outrage, ZDFheute (accessed on January 20, 2010)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Tomasz Konicz: AfD: The masks are falling. AfD as the new "Mövenpick Party". September 14, 2017, accessed August 4, 2018 .