Gerhard Köhler (entrepreneur)

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Gerhard Köhler 2014
Surname Gerhard Koehler
Association Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany (since 1990)
GermanyGermany 
Born March 18, 1956
Aschersleben German Democratic RepublicGermany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
title ACO World Champion 2016
Current  Elo rating 2211 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2226 (February 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Gerhard Köhler (born March 18, 1956 in Aschersleben ) is a German entrepreneur and chess player .

He has been the majority shareholder of ORWO Net GmbH since September 2002 and was CEO and CFO of ORWO Net AG from 2007 to 2016 .

On June 3, 2019, Köhler was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the level of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his economic commitment and his great activities in the field of pre-school education.

Early years and education

Köhler comes from a working-class family. The parents came to Aschersleben as farmers from the Sudetenland in 1945 . After graduating from high school in Halle-Neustadt, after serving in the army at the Leipzig Commercial College in 1977, he studied commercial economics with a diploma in oec. 1981 on.

In 1984 Köhler received his doctorate at the commercial college with a thesis on the role of the state budget and credit in the financing of research and development and investments.

Further career

In 1984 Köhler joined the State Bank of the GDR and took on tasks in the area of ​​financing consumer goods retailers on April 1, 1988 at the Handelsbank branch in Leipzig. During his work at the State Bank, Köhler was accepted from February 1, 1987 to January 31, 1991 for an unscheduled academic traineeship at the commercial college. From September 1, 1988 to June 30, 1989, he completed a postgraduate course in university education and completed this successfully with a thesis on the development of problem-oriented thinking among students in the field of socialist economics. In September 1989, Köhler received the FACULTAS DOCENDI in the field of socialist economics. As a result, the university education degree from the University of Leipzig was awarded in November 1989.

From April 1, 1990, Köhler started working for Deutsche Kreditbank AG . As part of his work for Dresdner Bank Kreditbank, Köhler u. a. responsible for the DM initial equipment in the former district of Leipzig . From December 1990 to the beginning of 1992, Köhler underwent extensive training at Dresdner Bank in all areas of the banking business, and then worked as an analyst in the credit department in Leipzig until February 1993.

From March 1993 to February 2000, Köhler was entrusted with the management and support of various Commerzbank branches, most recently as director of the Frankfurt / Oder regional branch, where he was primarily responsible for supporting corporate customers. When he joined PixelNet AG as CFO on March 1, 2000, his 16-year banking activity ended.

After the interim position as an employed board member, Köhler became self-employed as a management consultant on January 1, 2002 and worked for various insolvency administrators.

In September 2002, Köhler founded ORWO Net GmbH with two partners to take over the traditional photo location from bankruptcy. ORWO Net AG was founded in 2007. Köhler withdrew from operational business on April 1, 2017 and has been the main shareholder since then.

Since April 2018, Köhler has been a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Family Businesses and Entrepreneurial Succession at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Köhler is considered ambitious and determined. Through chess at a young age, he learned to think networked and uses this in business life and in voluntary work.

Private life

Koehler together with Kortschnoi

Köhler is married and has three grown children. He plays chess in his spare time.

He appeared as a chess player in the 1970s, so he achieved third place in tournaments in 1973 and 1974 in the GDR youth championship in addition to various good placements, belonged to the sports promotion group of the National People's Army and its team in the special league and played with the BSG Chemie Lützkendorf and SG 67 Halle-Neustadt in the top league.

After a job-related abstinence from chess, he devoted himself more to the game of chess again from 2010 and initially played primarily the German amateur chess championships. In 2010 he was the winner of the Germany Cup.

In 2016 Köhler became amateur world champion in group A on the Greek island of Kos and in 2017 senior champion in Saxony-Anhalt.

When he reaches the age of 60, Köhler mainly takes part in senior tournaments such as national, German, European and world championships.

social commitment

Since 2012, Köhler has organized various chess events with older players. In 2012 he brought Viktor Korchnoi and his wife Petra to Leipzig at the age of 81 to play simultaneously against students, teachers and citizens of the city of Leipzig. In 2014 in Leipzig and 2015 in Zurich, Köhler organized a Kortschnoi versus Uhlmann competition .

Köhler has been President of Kinderschach in Deutschland e. V. and since 2016 board member of the Emanuel Lasker Society . In 2015 the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a portrait of Köhler and the German chess community Chessbase called him a chess missionary .

In August 2016, Köhler founded the GK gGmbH chess foundation with the aim of raising money in cooperation with the German Chess Federation, the Lasker Society and the Kinderschach Association in Germany over a period of ten to twelve years on a voluntary basis with a coverage level of 50 % to bring chess closer to all children aged five and over in Germany.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Koehler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORWO Net GmbH: History ( s )
  2. ↑ Monika Maron: Bitterfeld Bogen A REPORT . In: S. Fischer Verlag (Ed.): S. Fischer Verlag . 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-048828-2 , pp. 137-144 .
  3. ↑ 50 years of Orwo. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Press release no .: 296/2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Gerhard Köhler received the Federal Order of Merit - German Chess Federation. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Köhler: German: Diploma certificate Gerhard Köhler, Dilpomökonom. November 5, 1981. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Gerhard Köhler: German: Doctorate certificate Gerhard Köhler, Socialist VWL magna cum laude. December 14, 1984. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Köhler: German: Certificate of Appeal of the State Bank of the GDR. April 1, 1988. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Köhler: German: Certificate of acceptance into the scientific aspirature. February 1, 1987. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Köhler: German: Certificate for the university education degree from Gerhard Köhler. November 29, 1989. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  11. ^ Gerhard Köhler: Deutsch: Certificate of University Education University Leipzig Gerhard Köhler. November 29, 1989. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  12. ^ Gerhard Köhler: German: Facultas docendi Sozialistische VWL. September 1, 1989. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  13. ^ Gerhard Köhler: Deutsch: GmbH Orwo Net registration. November 4, 2002. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  14. ↑ The ORWO story: This is what the former GDR combine became. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Orwo Net - German Founder Award. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Institute for Family Businesses & Entrepreneurial Succession. Accessed June 20, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Gerhard Köhler: German: Certificate of Evaluation Group A - World Champion ACO 2016. May 16, 2017, accessed on July 26, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Group A - ACO Amateur Chess Championship Kos 2016. Retrieved on June 11, 2019 .
  19. ↑ mdr.de: Sport for every age group: World chess champion triumphs in Halberstadt. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Viktor Kortschnoi against Wolfgang Uhlmann on March 28, 2014 in Leipzig (on YouTube)
  21. ^ Emanuel Lasker Society - Emanuel Lasker Society. Accessed June 11, 2019 (German).
  22. ^ Steffen Uhlmann: Ticket to Ride . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 2, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 26, 2017]).
  23. ^ Gerhard Köhler: Entrepreneur and chess missionary . In: Chess News . August 4, 2015 ( chessbase.com [accessed July 26, 2017]).
  24. ^ Günter Reinemann: Establishment of a charitable chess foundation by Gerhard Köhler. Retrieved on July 26, 2017 (German).
  25. ↑ Dr. Gerhard Köhler and photo service provider ORWO Net - promoter of chess in Germany - German Chess Federation. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Elisa Sowieja, Volksstimme Magdeburg: Train by train to the great goal. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben