Giuseppe Vita

Giuseppe Vita (born April 28, 1935 in Favara , Sicily ) is an Italian manager. He was Chairman of the Management Board of the Berlin pharmaceutical company Schering until 2001, Chairman of its Supervisory Board until 2006 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer SE from 2002 to 2019 . From 2012 to 2018 he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Italian UniCredit SpA, whose subsidiary UniCredit Bank AG - known under the brand “Hypovereinsbank” (HVB) - is active in Germany.

Origin, family

Giuseppe Vita grew up on an estate in Sicily with 14 siblings. He is married, has two grown children and lives in Berlin-Tiergarten and Milan .

education

After graduating from high school in 1953, Vita studied medicine in Catania and Rome . After receiving his doctorate (1959, summa cum laude ) and the state examination as a doctor (1960), he was recognized as a specialist in radiology in 1961. With the aim of following his brother to New York , he left Italy and began in 1962 as an assistant at the X-ray Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Professional career

In 1964 he moved to the research department of Schering AG as a research assistant for contrast agent research and moved to West Berlin . In 1968 he moved up to the management of the pharmaceutical company and was entrusted as General Manager with the management of the subsidiary Schering SpA Italy in Milan, which he built up into a flourishing company.

In 1987 Vita returned to the Group's headquarters in Berlin and was initially appointed deputy and one year later a full board member of Schering AG. In June 1989 he took over the chairmanship of the board as successor to Horst Witzel .

Active positions and other memberships (a selection)

Germany

Vita is a member of the Senate of the German National Foundation , which was founded by Helmut Schmidt . He is also Honorary Chairman of Axel Springer SE.

Italy

Vita has been a member of the General Council of Aspen Institute Italia and the Trilateral Commission , Group Italy, since 2012. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) in 2012. He has been Honorary Chairman of Deutsche Bank SpA Italy since 2002 .

Former positions and memberships in boards of trustees

After leaving the operational business at Schering, Giuseppe Vita moved there in 2001 to the post of Chairman of the Supervisory Board, which he held until 2006. There he last dealt with the takeover by Bayer AG for 16.9 billion euros.

He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Hugo Boss AG (2000–2008), Deutz AG (2006–2009), and a member of the supervisory board of Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG , Continental AG , Herlitz AG, Gerling insurance in Cologne, the Evonik Degussa (formerly Degussa AG) and Vattenfall Europe AG (2002–2008 and already from 1990 Bewag (Berlin) ) as well as in Italy chairman of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank Italia and later of Allianz SpA , chairman of the board of directors of Gruppo Banca Leonardo and Member of the Board of Directors of Barilla SpA in Parma, Humanitas SpA in Milan and Pirelli SpA. In Switzerland, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banca Leonardo SA. From February 2009 until the end of 2012, Vita was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Ernst Freiberger's Medical Park AG . From 2006 to 2007 he was chairman of the Robert Koch Foundation . and from 2009 sat first on the supervisory board and then on the foundation board of the Dussmann Group . He was also a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Foreign Policy until 2012 .

In Italy, Giuseppe Vita was Chairman of the Board of Directors of UniCredit SpA from May 2012 to April 2018 .

Awards

• 1990: Italian Order of Merit (Cavaliere del Lavoro)
• 1994: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
• 1997: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2003: Business Hall of Fame from manager magazin

Web links

• Bloomberg Investing Businessweek, Profile Giuseppe Vita (accessed April 15, 2013)
• Chairman of the supervisory board Giuseppe Vita: "strokes" for Unicredit ( Memento from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Online at ftd.de from May 12, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chairman of the Supervisory Board Giuseppe Vita: "Streichel Units" for Unicredit, ftd.de from May 12, 2012 (accessed on April 13, 2013) ( Memento from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Giuseppe Vita is 75 years old, BZ from April 27, 2010 (accessed on April 13, 2013)
3. ↑ Giuseppe Vita: A man with the gift of making friends, tagesspiegel.de, May 9, 2001 (accessed April 16, 2013)
4. ↑ Axel Springer Aktiengesellschaft / Announcement of the invitation to the 2013 Annual General Meeting on April 24, 2013 . News from March 13, 2013 (online at dgap.de, accessed April 16, 2013).
5. ↑ Horst Witzel, munzinger.de (accessed on April 16, 2012)
6. ↑ Axel Springer SE: Annual General Meeting elects new Supervisory Board. April 17, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Schering shareholders seal the takeover by Bayer, aerzteblatt.de on September 14, 2006 (accessed on April 13, 2013) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Boss inspector begins to withdraw, ftd.de March 18, 2008 (accessed on April 13, 2013) ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
9. ↑ Committees of the Supervisory Board, geschaeftsbericht2009.deutz.com (accessed on April 15, 2013) ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. ↑ unicreditgroup.eu, Governance >> Board of Directors >> Members >> Giuseppe Vita (accessed on March 13, 2013)
11. ↑ Annual financial statement_Axel_Springer_AG_2008 (accessed on April 13, 2013) ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 785 kB) 
12. ^ Vita welcomes the winners of the Robert Koch Prize 2007
13. ↑ Vita Dussmann (accessed on April 15, 2013) ( Memento of the original from August 14, 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. (PDF; 432 kB)  
14. ↑ Dussmann Group, Foundation manages the Dussmann Group from January 17, 2009 (accessed on April 15, 2013) ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2013 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.  
15. ^ The German Who is Who , edition L2011 / 2012, page 1212
16. ↑ unicreditgroup.eu, Governance >> Board of Directors >> Members >> Giuseppe Vita (accessed on March 13, 2013)
17. ↑ (accessed April 13, 2018)
18. ↑ quirinale.it
19. ^ Henning Schulte-Noelle: Laudation on Giuseppe Vita