Hans Georg Willers

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Hans Georg Willers (born June 29, 1928 in Oldenburg ) is a German manager and former CEO .

Life

Willers studied economics in Frankfurt am Main , where he and friends founded the Academic Association Hassia on May 3, 1949, where he was elected third party. During the summer the name was changed to Corps Hassia zu Frankfurt. On November 21, 1949 he became a member of the Corps Austria , and received his doctorate in 1953 at the University of Cologne Dr. rer. pole. While doing his doctorate, he worked for the Krupp Group from 1951, where he then became Managing Director of Krupp Stahl GmbH in Düsseldorf in 1960. In 1964 he moved as a member of the board of Stinnes AG in Mülheim and from there in 1978 as chairman of the board of Thyssen Handelsunion AG in Düsseldorf.

In 1966 Willers went to Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH in Ruhrort and remained there as chairman of the board and then as a member of the supervisory board until 1995.

Awards

In 1997, Willers was made Honorary President of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, and the Mercator plaque from the city of Duisburg. The University of Duisburg-Essen awarded him the honor of an honorary senator. Since 2001 honorary chairman of the supervisory board of mediantis AG.

Works

  • The fundamental problem of iron price formation on the European Union market , Cologne (dissertation) 1953
  • Mergers & Acquisitions - A Strategic Instrument , in: Herbert A. Henzler, Handbuch Strategischeführung, Wiesbaden 1988, pp. 259–275 (together with Theo Siegert)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Herrlein , Corpslist - Directory of the members of the Corps Austria 1861-2001 , Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 161, serial no. 450
  2. https://www.uni-due.de/de/universitaet/ehrensenatoren.php