Gunther Bonz

Gunther Bonz (born June 16, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German administrative lawyer and port manager. From 2004 to 2008 he was Hamburg State Councilor in the economic authority and has been General Manager of Eurogate since 2009 , President of FEPORT (Federation of European Private Port Operators) in Brussels since 2010 and President of the Port of Hamburg Business Association since 2011 .

Life and professional career in the Hamburg economic authority

After graduating from the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Hamburg studied Bonz at the local university law. After his 2nd state examination, he joined the Hamburg civil service as a civil servant in 1983 and only one year later he went on an administrative exchange for a year in the legal and urban planning department in Fort Collins / Colorado, USA. After his return he was first employed in the public order office, from 1987 in the authority for schools and vocational training and from 1988 in the authority for economics, transport and agriculture in various departments. From 1990 to 1998 he was a lecturer at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In 1999 he became head of the office for economy and agriculture in the Hamburg economic authority and senate director.

In 2004, Mayor Ole von Beust appointed the non-party Bonz to the State Council in the economic authority with Senator Gunnar Uldall . As such, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Hamburg Tourismus GmbH, and in 2006 he became a member of the board of trustees of the newly founded Logistik-Initiative Hamburg (LIHH), where he held the post of deputy chairman. After the state elections in 2008 , he remained in the new black and green Senate State Council under the Senator for Economics Axel Gedaschko .

Dismissed as a State Councilor

On August 27, 2008 Bonz was put into temporary retirement after a 13-minute conversation with Mayor von Beust. He was accused of having made a memo on June 18, 2008, without the knowledge of the Senator for Economic Affairs, about a secret agreement between the CDU and the Greens (GAL) during the coalition negotiations after the development plan for a new furniture store in Hamburg-Eidelstedt with the aim of re-planning and prevention of settlement is to be revised. While the Greens strictly rejected the construction in the election campaign, the CDU had always supported the settlement plans. The memo reached the press on August 14, 2008. However, Bonz did not see to it that the document was passed on, but according to information from the Abendblatt one or more CDU members of parliament, which is why the opposition factions in the citizenry also spoke of a “peasant sacrifice” and praised Bonz's high reputation as an economic state councilor. His successor was Carsten Frigge .

Act as a port manager

On June 1, 2009 Bonz became the general representative of Eurogate-Holding, Europe's largest container terminal and logistics group independent of shipping companies, and at the same time managing director of EUROGATE Container Terminal Hamburg GmbH. In August 2010 the annual meeting in Amsterdam elected him President of the Association of European Private Port Operators (Feport). On October 11, 2011, he was also elected President of the Port of Hamburg Business Association.

Bonz was a member of the supervisory board of Lloyd Fonds AG from 2010 to 2015 and is still today on the supervisory board of AVW Immobilien AG as deputy chairman of the supervisory board and as a member of the supervisory board of Dakosy Datenkommunikationssystem AG.

Web links

• CV from March 2006
• Short résumé in "Die Welt" from September 28, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in "Die Welt" from August 27, 2008
2. ^ Print of the note in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 14, 2008
3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, August 28, 2008
4. ↑ http://www.politik-kommunikation.de/personalwechsel/bonz-fuehrt-europaeische-hafenbetreiber
5. ↑ http://www.verkehrsrundschau.de/neue-spitze-beim-unternehmensverband-hafen-hamburg-1058388.html
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 16, 2016 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. 
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