Günter Pilarsky

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Günter Pilarsky (born November 29, 1937 in Grünberg in Silesia , today Zielona Góra Poland ) is a German entrepreneur . He is the founder and managing director of the Cronimet group of companies .

Life

After attending the commercial college, Pilarsky completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk , which he completed in 1955. From 1959 he headed an independent trading agency and founded the company Cronimet in 1980, a group of companies that specializes in trading in stainless steel scrap, ferrous alloys and metals worldwide and most recently achieved annual sales of 2.7 billion US dollars in 2012 with over 5000 employees . On the list of the 500 richest Germans compiled by Manager-Magazin , Günter Pilarsky took 89th place together with his son Jürgen. It is no longer included in the list for 2011/2012.

Pilarsky is married and has three children. Since 2006 he has been Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia for the consular district of Baden-Württemberg. In Armenia, Pilarsky's company mainly owns a molybdenum and copper mine and is the largest private employer in that country with around 3,000 employees.

In the same year, he and his wife Jocelyn founded the Jocelyn & Günter Pilarsky Foundation , which supports social projects in various countries.

In 2011, Pilarsky's group of companies came under fire when the ARD business magazine Plusminus reported on inhumane working conditions in a mine in the Congo from which Cronimet purchases ores.

Pilarsky has been one of the two vice-presidents of Karlsruher SC since 2010 . In April 2017, Pilarsky told the sports department of Badische Neuesten Nachrichten that his continued involvement on the board of directors and as a sponsor would only be guaranteed if attempts to replace Ingo Wellenreuther as president of the KSC were unsuccessful. In the 2019 presidential election, however, Pilarsky announced somewhat surprisingly in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten that he would also work with a President Müller. In a newspaper interview on the occasion of his 80th birthday in November 2017, Pilarsky drew parallels between his entrepreneurial activity and that at KSC: "I am a fighter, it was like that when my company was founded [...] I never gave up and today we are world market leaders [...] I feel fit and healthy enough to help bring Karlsruher SC back upstairs as quickly as possible. "

Publications

  • Günter Pilarsky: Economy on the drop of raw materials. The struggle for the most important mineral resources . Springer, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00362-3

literature

  • Mario Beltschak: Scrap becomes money. Recycling made Günter Pilarsky one of the richest Germans (= Karlsruhe and his heads, episode 106). In: Badische Latest Nachrichten of May 11, 2015, p. 23

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. For the curriculum vitae, also below, see Vita Honorary Consul Günter Pilarsky
  2. Michael Roth: "You can make very good money with scrap." In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 25, 2006; For the current number of 3,409 employees in Armenia, see the information on the company website, Facts and Figures .
  3. Questionable raw material deals of a Karlsruhe company . In: Presseportal.de, February 15, 2011.
  4. René Dankert: Pilarsky warns opponents of the presidium against arrogance . In: Badische Latest Nachrichten, April 19, 2017, p. 13.
  5. "I am a fighter". KSC Vice Günter Pilarsky celebrates his 80th birthday on Wednesday . In: Badische Latest News (Ed.): Sunday . Vol. 20, No. 47 v. November 26, 2017, p. 15.