Haniel (entrepreneurial family)

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Haniel is the name of a family of entrepreneurs from Duisburg . According to a survey by Wirtschaftswoche magazine , the Haniels were among the 10 richest German business families in 2015.

history

The Haniel group organization

The family founder and merchant's son Jacob Wilhelm Haniel comes from Elberfeld and moved to Ruhrort (today Duisburg) at a young age . The Haniels were initially wine merchants and freight forwarders . Jacob W. (or his brother Peter Friedrich) Haniel operated the first coal trade under the name Haniel from 1771. A first trading house was also taken over in 1772 by the father of his wife Aletta , the then Ruhrort mayor Jan Willem Noot (the Ruhrort Packhaus , today's Haniel Museum ). The family then acquired shares in the iron industry from 1805 . In 1834, son Franz Haniel was the first entrepreneur who dared to break through the marl layer in the Ruhr mining industry and thus advance underground mining . It was also he who brought coal mining to the left bank of the Rhine. The Haniels remained connected to heavy industry for a long time, including Gutehoffnungshütte and MAN AG . Today the focus is on investments in or ownership of companies in the textile industry and trade. ( Takkt AG (50.25%), ELG Utica (100%), CWS-boco (100%), Bekaert Textiles (100%) and Metro Group (25%))

The head of the family, which has around 680 shareholders, is Franz Markus Haniel . Since 2003 he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH , from 2007 to 2016 he was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Metro AG with interruptions .

In total, the community of heirs owns shares in 800 to 900 companies. The total turnover in 2014 was stated at 3944 million euros, the result (after taxes) at 686 million and the number of employees at 11,544.

Fiscal year 2015

Overview of consolidated financial statements

  • Turnover € 3808 million
  • Operating profit € 193 million
  • Earnings before taxes € 174 million
  • Profit after tax € 120 million
  • Haniel cash flow € 329 million
  • Investments € 1058 million
  • Total assets € 6,847 million

Average number of employees in 2015 (headcount) 12,930

The wealth of the dynasty is estimated at 6.5 billion euros (as of 2015) .

The Haniel family's value system

  • You can only become a partner at Haniel if you belong to the family through birth, adoption or marriage. The company shares are only inherited within the family lines. There are currently almost 680 owners.
  • Sales of shares within the family are possible. The hereditary line has preferential rights, only then will the more distant relatives receive the offer. The pricing is based on profit expectations.
  • Management and the family have been strictly separated at the Haniels since 1917. No Haniel is allowed to work at Haniel, not even as an intern.
  • Great attention is paid to the lifestyle of the shareholders. The private bankruptcy of one of the family members meant that he had to give up his company shares.
  • The profit distribution is limited to 25%.

Shareholders' meeting

The family meetings take place every spring. This includes the shareholders' meeting. The shareholders' meeting, in which usually no more than 250 owners take part, elects the bodies and determines the amount of the dividends. There is an advisory board of 30 shareholders who regularly exchange information about the owners. This circle forms the actual power center of the group. Nine representatives of larger share packages are represented in it. Eight of them are also the capital representatives on the co-determined supervisory board, one is a substitute member.

Every two years the holding holds a youth meeting at which the young shareholders get to know one of the company's business areas. (the age limit is 40 years).

Foundation, endowment

The Haniel Foundation was brought into being in 1988 . The foundation's assets amounted to approx. 10 million DM, today it amounts to 250 million euros. The task of the foundation is to grant scholarships to talented young people , but also to offer university collaborations, educational opportunities and events.

Family members

The family includes, among others

  1. Jacob Wilhelm Haniel (1734–1782), married to the entrepreneur Johanna Sophia Aletta, née Noot (1742–1815), daughter of the customs inspector Jan Willem Noot
    1. Wilhelm Haniel (1764-1819)
      1. Sophie Haniel (1798–1884), married to the steelworks inspector and later JHH general director Wilhelm Lueg
    2. Johanna Sophia Haniel (1773–1843), married to the hut director Gottlob Jacobi
    3. Gerhard Haniel (1774–1834), married to Henriette Magdalen, née Huyssen (1783–1858), sister of the mining entrepreneur Heinrich Arnold Huyssen and sister-in-law of Franz Haniel
      1. Carl Alex Haniel (1811–1861)
        1. Paul Haniel (1843–1892), District Administrator of the Mülheim an der Ruhr district (1879–1892)
          1. Karl Haniel (1877–1944), married to Edith, née Schleicher, daughter of the needle manufacturer Richard Schleicher from Schönthal
      2. Bertha Friederike Haniel (1813–1899), married on November 16, 1837 to Hugo Haniel (see 1.4.2.)
      3. Alphons Diederich Haniel (1814-1891)
        1. August Haniel (1852–1925), married to Eugenie, née Wiesner
          1. Curt Alfons Haniel (1884–1914), paleontologist
    4. Johannes Franciscus (Franz) Haniel (1779–1868), married to Friederike Christine, nee Huyssen (1785–1867), a sister of Heinrich Arnold Huyssen and sister-in-law of Gerhard Haniel
      1. Eduard Haniel (1807-1826)
      2. Hugo Haniel (1810–1893), married to Bertha, née Haniel (1813–1889) (see 1.3.2.)
        1. Adeline Haniel (1838–1915), married to the banker Theodor Böninger (1832–1908)
          1. Theodor Böninger (1863–1931)
            1. Hans Böninger (1897–1958)
        2. Franz Haniel junior (1842–1916), married to Johanna, née Jacobi (1860–1953)
          1. Franz Haniel (1883–1965)
          2. Curt Berthold Haniel (1886–1951), zoologist
            1. Klaus Haniel (1916–2006), married to Johanna, née Lutterotti von Gazzolis and Langenthal (* 1918)
              1. Franz Markus Haniel (* 1955)
      3. Max Haniel (1813–1887), married to Friederike, née Cockerill (1816–1854), daughter of the steel and mining entrepreneur James Cockerill
        1. Maximilian Berthold Haniel (1841–1883), married to Clara Haniel (1848–1916)
          1. Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen (1870–1935), married I. to Margarethe, née von Brauchitsch (1873–1939), and II. With Hedwig Baroness von Branca , née Frankenburger (1890–1985)
        2. Nancy Haniel (1843–1896), married to the entrepreneur, banker and patron of the arts Barthold Suermondt (1818–1887)
          1. Otto Suermondt (1864–1941), multiple award-winning gentleman rider in horse racing
        3. Eduard James Haniel von Haimhausen (1844–1904), married to Henriette, née Haniel (second marriage to the diplomat Anton Graf von Monts )
        4. Leonie Haniel (1848–1911), married to the Aachen cloth manufacturer Emil Lochner (1832–1900)
        5. John Eugen Louis von Haniel (1849–1912), Dr. phil., District Administrator of Moers, honorary citizen of the city of Moers, Privy Councilor; Prussian nobility in 1899, married I. to Fanny, née Stinnes (1857–1883), daughter of the shipowner Johann Gustav Stinnes and II. with Helene, née zur Helle (1857–1927), daughter of the Laurensberg manor Adolf zur Helle and his wife Clothilde , Daughter of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Friedrich Lochner
      4. Julius Haniel (1815–1880), married to (Henriette Luise) Caroline Böcking (1840–1894), daughter of the steel industrialist Heinrich Rudolf Böcking, granddaughter of Heinrich Böcking
        1. Richard Haniel (1865–1937), married to Irmgard Ulrike Hertha, née von Levetzow (1886–1955)
        2. Franziska Friederike Ida Eugenie Haniel (1865–1954), married I. to Ferdinand Albert Eckbrecht Graf von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1854–1935), II. With Karl Otto Graf von Holnstein (1854–1934)
        3. Elsa Haniel (1871–1955), married I. February 15, 1892 to Friedrich (Heinrich Christian Ludwig) von Michael (1857–1929), Dr. jur., landowner on Ihlenfeld and Groß Plasten, legal knight of the Order of St. John; married II. June 24, 1921 with Franz (Georg Kurt Eduard) Graf von Waldersee (1862–1927)
      5. Ludwig (Louis) Haniel (1817–1889), married to Bertha, née de Greiff (1834–1909)
        1. Hugo Haniel (1854–1896), from 1882 to 1896 co-owner of the Haniel & Lueg company in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg , married to Bertha Carolina Franziska, née Böninger (1862–1936)
        2. Friederike Haniel (1855–1870)
        3. Thusnelde Haniel (1860–1931), married to the painter Georg Oeder
      6. Friedrich Wilhelm Haniel (1820–1890), married to Julie, née Liebrecht (1831–1902)
        1. Theobald Haniel (1852–1889), married to Julie, née Liebrecht (1865–1928)
          1. Friedhelm Haniel (1888–1938), married to Alice Bloem (1897–1937)
        2. Elvire Haniel (1853–1904), married to Heinrich Eichwede (1845–1909), engineer
          1. Kurt Eichwede (1877–1938), Dr., married to Traute von Wegnern (* 1887)
          2. Bruno Eichwede (1881–1936), Dr. jur., legal historian, owner of the Milmersdorf manor (Templin district), married to Frieda v. Haniel (1889–1974) the daughter of John (Eugen Louis) von Haniel
          3. Alma Eichwede (1883-), married to Karl Wach (1878–1952), Prof. Dipl.-Ing., Architect and university professor
          4. Ella Eichwede (* 1886)
        3. Alma Haniel (1856–1936), married to Eduard Carp (1847–1924), Privy Councilor of Justice
          1. Erna Carp (1881–1938), married to Karl von Starck
          2. Adda Carp (* 1883), married to Julius Curtius
          3. Werner Carp (* 1886), industrialist in Düsseldorf, married to Elsa, née Windthorst (* 1888)
          4. Hildegard Carp (* 1891), married to Johann Jacob Franz Wagenführ von Arnim (* 1882), ironworks owner in Tangerhütte
      7. Theobald Haniel (1824-1852)
      8. Richard Haniel (1826-1858)
      9. Thusnelde (Emilie) Haniel (1830–1903), married to Philipp Heinrich Cockerill (1821–1903), son of James Cockerill and co-owner of the Cockerill works in Seraing and later of the Zollverein collieries , Rheinpreußen and Neumühl , the Gutehoffnungshütte and the Franz Haniel company & Co.
        1. Lucy Cockerill (1860–1913), married to I. Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1848–1887) from the Swabian noble family Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , writer; II. Richard Fleischer (1849–1937), writer. Lucy Fleischer was considered one of the richest Germans of her time.
          1. Lucy Irma Countess Adelmann v. Adelsmannsfelden (1884–1946), married to Adolf Friedrich Hermann Pagenstecher (1877–1959), director of the Wiesbaden ophthalmic institute
            1. Lucy Irma Lutterotti, née Pagenstecher (1928–2003), married to I. Rainer Horstmann (1920–1970), II. Ludwig Lutterotti (1916–1980)

Nowadays, many of the family lines are no longer just called Haniel, but also Böninger or Horstmann.

literature

  • August Haniel: On the history of the Haniel family. Düsseldorf, 1913, 20 pages, several family trees and supplements.
  • Erich Haniel: Kinship charts of the extended Haniel family. Nuremberg, 1951, 22 sheets and 18 family tree tables, some of which are folded several times, in the appendix.
  • Max Karl Feiden, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Ed.): Haniel . Duisburg, 1956.
  • Hans Spethmann : Franz Haniel. His life and works . Duisburg, 1956.
  • Brigitte Koch: Haniels are not allowed to work at Haniel. An economic nucleus of the Ruhr area. Stuttgart, 1996.
  • Paul Schmidt-Thomé: The  Haniel family. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 615 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Haniel Museum (ed.): Franz Haniel. Short biography . Duisburg, 1999.
  • Harold James : Family Business in Europe. Haniel, Wendel and Falck. 2005, CH Beck Verlag, ISBN 978-3-406-53510-9 .
  • Bernhard Weber-Brosamer, Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Hrsg.): Haniel 1756–2006: A chronicle in data and facts. Duisburg, 2006.
  • Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Ed.): The Haniel story 1756-2006 . Duisburg, 2006.
  • Ulrich Viehöver: The realms of influence: Henkel, Otto and Co - Who has money and power in Germany. 2006. ISBN 978-3-593-37667-7 .
  • Harold James: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. 2006.

Web links

Commons : Haniel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b wealth ranking: Germany's billionaires are so rich In: Wirtschaftswoche, July 22, 2015
  2. ↑ Portfolio Haniel Group ( as of Jan. 2016 )
  3. ↑ Georg Meck: The company stands above the individual. In: FAZ , September 1, 2007 ( online )
  4. ↑ Martin Scheele: Haniel family. XXL dealer from the Ruhr. In: Manager Magazin , July 19, 2005 ( online )
  5. ↑ Kirsten Bialdiga, Martin Scheele: Franz Markus Haniel - Guardian of family values. In: Financial Times Deutschland , September 21, 2007 ( online ( memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ))
  6. ↑ a b Key figures of Haniel Holding ( [1] )
  7. ↑ a b The Haniels' value system from Manager Magazin , June 9, 2008, German
  8. ^ Family Haniel: XXL dealers from the Ruhr. In: Manager Magazin, July 10, 2005 ( online )
  9. ↑ Harold James: Family Capitalism - Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model
  10. ^ Elsa Haniel, family tree
  11. ↑ Main financier of Schloss Elmau
  12. ^ Memorandum to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Haniel & Lueg plant, Düsseldorf-Grafenberg, February 12, 1899
  13. ↑ The eleventh child, the first daughter. Thusnelde Haniel. In: Haniel News, newspaper for employees of the Haniel Group , December 12, 1997, p. 11. ( online )
  14. ↑ Kurt Pritzkoleit : Who Owns Germany? A chronicle of property and power. Kurt Desch Verlag, Munich 1957, p. 65.
  15. ↑ Harold James: Germany's Dynasties. Haniel, the Duisburg clan. In: Handelsblatt from January 7th 2011 ( online )