Peter Gloystein

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Peter Gloystein

Peter Gloystein (born November 25, 1945 in Bremen ) is a German bank manager and politician ( CDU ). As a banker, he mainly worked for Commerzbank and from 2000 to 2002 as spokesman for the board at BHF-Bank in Frankfurt . From September 2004 until his resignation due to the “Sekt affair” in May 2005, he was a member of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as Mayor and Senator for Economics and Ports and Senator for Culture .

biography

Education, job, family

Gloystein was born in Bremen in 1945. After graduating from high school and training as a reserve officer (last rank: lieutenant of the reserve), he studied business administration at the University of Hamburg and was awarded his dissertation in 1977 with his dissertation The Promotion of Industrial Restructuring through the Financial Instruments of the European Community (as a book in 1978 under the title Financing of the industrial Structural change published by the EC ) to Dr. rer. pol is doing his PhD .

From 1971 to 1975 he worked as a scientific consultant at the HWWA Institute for Economic Research in Hamburg. He then moved to WestLB in the investment banking division . From 1981 to 1999 he was employed by Commerzbank AG . First he headed the financial planning department of the central coordination and planning department in Frankfurt. From 1986 he moved to the Stuttgart branch. In 1990 he was appointed as a deputy member of the Board of Management, and a year later he was a full member of the Board of Management of Commerzbank AG. In 1999 Gloystein was appointed a full member of the Board of Management of BHF-BANK , and also a member of the Executive Committee Europe, ING Group , Amsterdam. In 2000 he became the spokesman for the board of directors of BHF-Bank with the directly assigned departments of controlling, credit risk management, law, auditing and corporate communication. Gloystein left BHF and ING at his own request in 2002 due to differences over the further expansion of the German business.

At the end of the 1990s Gloystein was a member of the board of the European Bankers Association and German member of the Maas Commission, which was used by the European Commission for the technical preparation of the European Monetary Union.

politics

In August 2004, the specific CDU Bremen him the successor to the ailing Senator Hartmut Perschau (CDU) in the Senate Scherf III , and on 8 September 2004, he was elected mayor and Senator for Economics and Ports and Senator for Culture in Bremen Free Hanseatic City elected .

"Sekt affair" and resignation

In 2005 Gloystein hit the headlines after pouring champagne on a homeless listener from the stage at the opening of a wine festival in Bremen on May 11th. The incident was documented by the media images that police arrested after a complaint of the coated because of insult and injury investigations, and a day later came Gloystein back as a senator and mayor. His successor as Senator for Economics was Jörg Kastendiek (CDU) and as Mayor Thomas Röwekamp (CDU).

According to the organizers, the visitor had previously tried several times to reach for the magnum champagne bottle. According to witnesses, Gloystein poured the champagne over his head with a grin, with the comment: "Here, so that you also have something to drink". According to his information, he had initially misinterpreted the man's appearance and wanted to pour champagne in his mouth, as his spokesman explained to the media. Then the man turned away and got the champagne on his head. Witnesses contradicted this representation. Gloystein apologized to the man immediately after the incident and is said to have offered him an expensive fountain pen as compensation . The next morning he circulated a public apology through the Bremen Senate Press Service. The resignation took place on the evening of the same day. Mayor Henning Scherf expressed his respect for this decision. The CDU nominated Jörg Kastendiek as the successor to Gloystein .

A week after the incident, Gloystein and the victim of the champagne attack reconciled at a private meeting. After the latter withdrew the complaint, the public prosecutor closed the case against Gloystein.

In his letter of resignation , Gloystein regretted the incident; With his resignation he wanted to avoid a burden on the country and government. Gloystein waived his remaining salary claims of around 65,000 euros.

Later activity

Gloystein returned to business. He works as a management consultant with a focus on finance and cultural management, in Bremen until 2008, then in Düsseldorf. Advisory work in the business with corporate investments (M & A) was initially carried out primarily as Advisory Director of the investment bank Lincoln International, Frankfurt / Chicago, and then from 2012 as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Mergers & Acquisitions AG, Düsseldorf. He is currently a member of the advisory board at FAKT AG in Essen and Allistro Capital GmbH in Frankfurt am Main as a private equity company

Further memberships

Gloystein works on a voluntary basis in various cultural institutions: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Hombroich Cultural Project, Neuss, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bethesda, Mönchengladbach, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Friends of the Teatro La Fenice, Berlin, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf / Duisburg, as well as Fondazione Internationale Richard Wagner di Venezia co- sponsor of the Wagner Museum, Venice Vice-President of the Board of Directors Until 2009 Gloystein was also active in the Friends of the Bayreuth Festival, initially as a long-term member of the Board of Trustees, and in 2009 also as Chairman of the Board of Directors. At the beginning of 2010 he resigned from this position.

Others

Gloystein is married and has two children.

Publications

  • with Henry Kronenau & Hans-Eckart Scharrer: Improvement of the assessment basis for the development aid tax law. An investigation on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics. HWWA Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg 1973
  • Financing of industrial structural change through the EC. Weltarchiv publishing house, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-87895-172-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Stahn: Peter Gloystein becomes Bremen's Senator for Economic Affairs . In: Die Welt , August 18, 2004.
  2. ↑ manager magazin : BHF: Two in one go . September 16, 2002
  3. ↑ Die Welt : Peter Gloystein becomes Bremen's Senator for Economic Affairs . August 18, 2004
  4. ↑ Die Welt : Gloystein is also to become mayor of Bremen . August 24, 2004
  5. ↑ Press release of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: Dr. Peter Gloystein new mayor as well as senator for economy and ports and senator for culture . September 8, 2004
  6. ↑ Stern : Bremen: champagne shower with Senator Gloystein . May 12, 2005
  7. ^ Spiegel Online : Sekt attack: Bremen Senator for Economic Affairs Gloystein resigns . May 12, 2005
  8. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Bremen: Sekt attack costs government vice Gloystein the office . May 13, 2005
  9. ↑ Press office of the Senate - Mayor Gloystein: Sincere apology expressed in a personal conversation. In: senatspressestelle.bremen.de. May 11, 2005, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Press Office of the Senate - Declaration of resignation from Mayor Dr. Gloystein. In: senatspressestelle.bremen.de. May 12, 2005, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Die Welt : "This snapshot killed me" . May 14, 2005
  12. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt : Kastendiek for Gloystein . May 23, 2005
  13. ↑ a b Die Welt : Ex-Senator is reconciled with the victim of the champagne attack . May 20, 2005
  14. ↑ the daily newspaper : Peter Gloystein remains unpunished . June 11, 2005
  15. ↑ Parliament : Bremen CDU Senators: No penalties for showering with champagne and emetic death ( Memento from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). June 20, 2005
  16. ^ Spiegel Online : Bremer Sektdusche: Dracula's successor desperately wanted . May 20, 2005
  17. ↑ tillzier: Dr. Peter Gloystein: entrepreneurial activity. Retrieved on May 8, 2020 (German).
  18. ↑ Peter Gloystein's website : Current activity
personal data
SURNAME Gloystein, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager, politician (CDU), Senator for Economics from Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen