Herman Oskarowitsch Gref
Herman Oskarowitsch Gref ( Russian Герман Оскарович Греф ; born February 8, 1964 in Panfilowo , Pavlodar Oblast , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian politician and manager. Between May 2000 and September 2007 he was Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation . Since November 2007 he has been chairman of the board of Sberbank .
Life
Gref comes from a Russian-German family who had been deported from the Donets Basin region to the Kazakh SSR in 1941 under Josef Stalin . The ancestors had emigrated to Russia under the reign of the German-born Tsarina Catherine the Great .
After graduating from school, he worked in the agricultural administration in Irtysh as a legal advisor to the regional agricultural administration . From 1982 to 1984 he did his military service with a special police force in the city of Chapayevsk . He then studied law at the Omsk State University and graduated with honors in 1990. A short time later he went to Leningrad and worked there as a research assistant at the Leningrad State University . During this time he also got to know the future President Putin .
From 1991 to 1992 he was the first category legal advisor to the Economic Development and Property Committee of the Petrodvorets City Council and the City of St. Petersburg.
In 1994 Gref was promoted to the city administration as deputy chairman of the committee of the director of the department for real estate as well as the first chairman of the committee for the administration of real estate of the city administration of St. Petersburg, where in the next few years he helped initiate a failed reform of the housing system . In September 1997, the then governor Vladimir Yakovlev became the new vice-governor and chairman of the property management committee of the St. Petersburg city administration.
On the recommendation of the reformer Anatoly Chubais , Gref, who was considered liberal in economic policy, was appointed Deputy Minister for the Administration of State Property on August 12, 1998. In January 2000, he became chairman of the Center for Strategic Development , where he was involved in developing a liberal economic reform program for Russia.
On May 18, 2000 Gref became Minister for Economic Development and Trade in the Government of the Russian Federation under the new Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov . Even after the resignation of the latter, Gref kept this post under Mikhail Fradkov until his resignation on September 12, 2007. During his time as Minister of Economics, Gref was among other things co-initiator of the establishment of the stabilization fund for state revenue surpluses from the oil and natural gas business and one of the Lobbyists for Russia's accession to the WTO .
After resigning as minister, Gref was elected President and CEO of Sberbank , one of Russia's largest credit institutions, at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on November 28, 2007 . He is also a board member of several large state-owned Russian corporations, including Gazprom and Svyazinvest, and a member of the steering committee of the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue .
Gref is married for the second time. His current wife Jana is a designer . In 2006 a daughter was born. A son from his first marriage studied in Russia and Germany and, like his father, became a lawyer.
Others
On Forbes' 2015 list of the richest Russian businesspeople, Gref ranked 6th with an annual income of $ 13.5 million.
At the Gaidar Forum in January 2016, one of Russia's largest economic events, Sberbank boss Gref caused great outrage in Russian government circles when he said that Russia has already lost the race in the world economy and is in the field of "downshifters" States.
Awards
- Thanks to the President of the Russian Federation
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland III. class
- Alexander Nevsky Order
- Order of Honor
Web links
- Detailed biography in the Lentapedia (Russian)
- Sberbank boss Gref: The Russian for Rüsselsheim , portrait by Gerald Hosp in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 30, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ What can be privatized must be privatized . FAZ of January 22, 2013.
- ↑ One should have listened more. Handelsblatt dated November 23, 2015.
- ↑ Our expansion in Europe has stopped . Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 23, 2015.
- ↑ Герман Греф . ( svpressa.ru [accessed December 19, 2017]). <- therein evidence of "already lost the race in the world economy"?
- ↑ Fuad MIRZAYEV argues in POOR GENIUS that Russia's development in Bloomberg's innovation ranking speaks against the interpretation "on the decline "; what is meant is rather a passive mentality.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gref, Herman Oskarowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Греф, Герман Оскарович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Panfilowo , Pavlodar Oblast , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union |