Hans-Joachim Selenz

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Hans-Joachim Selenz (born June 29, 1951 in Gudensberg ) is a German engineer , author and former politician (formerly FDP or Schill party , now non-party). In his books, he examined compliance and corporate governance aspects using Volkswagen AG and Preussag AG . He also devotes himself to the processing of fraud in large German public companies.

education

Hans-Joachim Selenz is a son of the secondary school teacher Werner Selenz . He grew up in Gudensberg. After graduating from the König-Heinrich-Schule in Fritzlar in 1970 , he studied steel metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin . Selenz completed his studies with a diploma in 1976 and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1980 with the thesis A contribution to the understanding of the scaling of steel in technical flue gases . In 1986, together with Hans Günter Geck , he published the study carried out for the Klöckner-Werke in Georgsmarienhütte , preheating and cleaning scrap in the blow-molding process using the converter exhaust gases synchronously .

Selenz is married and has a son and a daughter. He lives in Peine .

Manager at Nordferro, Klöckner Werken, Preussag and Edag

Selenz worked as a manager at the steel companies Nordferro , Klöckner Werke AG Georgsmarienhütte and Peine Salzgitter AG . From 1992 he was a board member and from 1994 CEO of Preussag Stahl AG .

Time at Preussag

In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Board of Management of Preussag AG .

The boards of directors of Preussag and Preussag Stahl agreed in 1997 to put the subsidiary on the stock exchange, as Preussag was to transform itself from a conglomerate into a logistics and tourism group. Former Preussag CEO Michael Frenzel , who wanted to part with the cyclical steel business, favored the sale of Preussag Stahl.

In the attic apartment in Hanover, Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder, supported by Salzgitter Executive Board member Hans-Joachim Selenz, developed the idea on January 8, 1998 of reversing the short-term sale of Preussag Stahl to Voest for 1.3 billion marks. On January 9, 1998, Gerhard Schröder convinced the chairman of the board of directors of Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB) Friedel Neuber , the major shareholder of Preussag, to refrain from the sale and arranged for the state of Lower Saxony to purchase Preussag Stahl AG for 1 billion marks. Hans-Joachim Selenz prepared the convincing dossier .

As a board member, Selenz had “shown a lot of courage and courage” by refusing the “perfidious approach” of the sale to Voest of Preussag Stahl AG in a “night and fog” campaign.

Dismissal and dismantling

On February 4, 1998, Selenz was dismissed from the Board of Directors of Preussag AG after he had refused to sign what he believed to be the falsified annual financial statements , which contained dubious cross-subsidies of 2.5 billion marks at Preussag. Selenz demanded a special test, but Frenzel refused it. Preussag had transferred risks to its subsidiary Babcock Borsig in order to later sell it. Preussag Stahl AG was placed on the stock exchange as Salzgitter AG in 1998 by the state of Lower Saxony.

In 1998 Selenz was appointed honorary professor at the University of Hanover .

On March 15, 1999, after differences with representatives of IG Metall , Selenz resigned as a board member of Salzgitter AG . In alliance talks with the Luxembourg ARBED , which Selenz had dutifully conducted, representatives of IG Metall reported that they had not been properly informed and that strategy talks had been conducted without their knowledge.

From September 1999 to January 2001 he was a member of the Executive Board of EDAG in Fulda .

In November 2000, he testified to the Hanover public prosecutor's office on allegations of fraud relating to the WestLB / Preussag group.

On December 3, 2014 and December 22, 2014, Selenz testified in the CDU parliamentary group of the Düsseldorf state parliament in the WestLB investigative committee before chairman Peter Biesenbach .

Politician

In 2001 the former social democrat ran for the FDP in the election of the mayor of Salzgitter and received 17% of the vote. From January to May 2002 he was the state representative of the Rule of Law Offensive party in Lower Saxony, founded by Ronald Schill . He later kept his distance from both parties .

author

In 2005 his books Black Book VW , a work on the VW corruption affair , and Wild West appeared on the executive floor .

CleanState

Selenz is the founder and first chairman of the registered association CleanState , which, according to its own statements, campaigns “for law and justice in politics, the state and the economy” and sees itself as a nationwide contact point for whistleblowers . He is also a speaker for keynote speeches such as practical experiences with the separation of powers.

In 2003 he filed criminal charges against Friedel Neuber and Michael Frenzel. He accused both of balance sheet manipulation.

In 2005 he filed a criminal complaint against Sigmar Gabriel , who was involved in a company that had received an order from the car company VW for 100,000 euros. According to Selenz, this is an illegal pseudo-activity.

Selenz demanded a second special audit from the ailing HSH Nordbank in 2008, not by the Landesbank, but by an independent institute. HSH Nordbank paid $ 45 million to US investment bank Goldman Sachs - although it was disputed whether the institute had to transfer the amount that Goldmann Sachs had to secure against loan defaults from US competitor Lehman Brothers.

Selenz is a stubborn critic of the former CEO and VW supervisory board boss Ferdinand Piëch , whom he often questioned at the VW general meeting. In 2007 he filed a criminal complaint against Ferdinand Piëch. The aim was to clarify whether Piëch had knowledge of the corrupt works councils of VW's ex-labor director Peter Hartz and wanted to enforce a counter-motion to the special audit of the corporate audit because, despite knowledge of various fraudulent processes and affairs, he had never seen cause for serious complaints. In 2008 he also called for special audits to examine VW's business relationships with companies belonging to the Piëch and Porsche families.

In 2012, Selenz announced a criminal complaint against Christian Wulff's confidante State Secretary Lothar Hagebölling , because he had approved Wulff's honorary salary .

Publications (selection)

  • A contribution to the understanding of the scaling of steel in technical flue gases , 1980
  • Black Book VW . Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5612-2
  • Wild west on the executive floor . Buch und Media, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86520-140-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Selenz: My books . Retrieved April 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c CV of Hans-Joachim Selenz. Retrieved April 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Aachener Nachrichten of February 27, 2015 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from the Aachener Nachrichten
  4. ↑ Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann in: Börsen-Zeitung of May 28, 2018 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from the Börsen-Zeitung
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  6. ↑ Euro from December 15, 2010 - Article at Nexis, retrieved from the Euro on August 7, 2018
  7. ↑ Euro from December 10, 2010 - Article at Nexis, retrieved from the Euro on August 7, 2018
  8. ↑ Ewald Schulte: Salzgitter steel manager Selenz throws in the towel . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 6, 1999.
  9. ↑ Börsen-Zeitung from June 16, 2011 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from the Börsen-Zeitung
  10. ↑ Rheinische Post Düsseldorf from December 23, 2014 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from the Rheinische Post
  11. ↑ Aachener Nachrichten of February 27, 2015 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from the Aachener Nachrichten
  12. ^ Articles of Association of CleanState e. V. Accessed April 2, 2009.
  13. ^ Hans-Joachim Selenz: CleanState . accessed on August 27, 2014
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  15. ↑ Die Welt from January 14, 2003 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 13, 2018 from the world.
  16. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of November 25, 2005 - article at Nexis, accessed on August 8, 2018 from the Frankfurter Rundschau.
  17. ↑ Aachener Nachrichten of September 22, 2009 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 8, 2018 from the Aachener Nachrichten
  18. ↑ Manager Magazin from December 3, 2009 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 7, 2018 from Manager Magazin
  19. ↑ Welt am Sonntag from April 22, 2007 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 8, 2018 from Welt am Sonntag
  20. ↑ Börsen-Zeitung of April 11, 2007 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 8, 2018 from the Börsen-Zeitung
  21. ↑ Börsen-Zeitung of April 12, 2008 - Article at Nexis, accessed on August 8, 2018 from the Börsen-Zeitung
  22. ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn, March 3, 2012 - Article at Nexis, retrieved on August 7, 2018 from the Bonner Generalanzeiger
personal data
SURNAME Selenz, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Gudensberg