Hans Joachim Langmann

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Hans Joachim Langmann (2010)

Hans Joachim Langmann (born October 5, 1924 in Groß Upahl ; † February 6, 2021 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) was a German entrepreneur and chairman of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

Life

Langmann was born the son of a diplomat in Groß Upahl near Güstrow and spent many years of his youth in Central and South America. During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war . Released from captivity, he initially worked for two years as an employee in an engineering office. A language trainer for Spanish was sought for the economist Marlis Groos, who belonged to the Merck family . The gardener's daughter came across Langmann as a language teacher. A relationship developed between Groos and Langmann that led to their marriage in 1961.

Langmann began in 1948 at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen a physics degree . With a thesis for generating X-rays under the direction of Otto Haxel he was in 1956 by the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg to the Dr. rer. nat. PhD . Until 1961 he worked as an assistant at the Physics Institute at Heidelberg University. Partly parallel to this, he was a research assistant at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center from 1956 to 1965 . From 1961, Langmann also held various positions at Merck . In 1964, he joined the company's management as a personally liable partner. In 1970 Langmann became chairman of the management board. The company's turnover at that time was 700 million  DM . When he stepped down and retired in 2000, sales were € 6.74 billion. The number of employees rose from 12,000 to over 33,000 in the same period. Langmann then became chairman of the management of what was then E. Merck OHG, which represents the capital share of the owner family in Merck KGaA (around 70 percent). At the end of 2004 he resigned from this body. In 1995, Langmann initiated the IPO of Merck KGaA. From January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1986, he was the successor to Rolf Rodenstock, Chairman of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). From 1975 to 1976 he was chairman of the German Chemical Industry Association .

At times Langmann was counted among the richest Germans, but this was put into perspective by the fact that the entire owner family, the Merck, consisted of around 125 people. His name is now no longer included in the relevant lists. He was a member of the board of directors of IMPAQ Germany and a partner in the company. Langmann had been a partner in the Hauck & Aufhäuser bank since 2008 . From June 2015 to July 2018 he donated a total of 800,000 euros to the CDU .

In 2006 and 2012, Langmann donated a total of one million euros to the KIT Friends and Funding Society of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to finance the Otto Haxel Prize for Innovation at KIT and the Otto Haxel Prize for Physics, a prize for the best physics dissertations at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg and the KIT Karlsruhe, where Haxels worked.

Private

Langmann was married to Marlis, née Groos, and had three daughters. He last lived in Seeheim-Jugenheim . He died in early February 2021 at the age of 96.

Honors

Langmann received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1981), the Great Federal Cross of Merit ( 1985), the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1987), the Hessian Order of Merit (1990) and the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal (2006). In May 2007 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of manager magazin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merck mourns the loss of Hans Joachim Langmann , accessed on February 9, 2021
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The Z-dependence of the bremsstrahlung of electrons with 14.7 MeV energy .
  3. ↑ P. Brors: Hans Joachim Langmann - Die Sagengestalt . In: manager magazin 6, 2007, from July 24, 2007
  4. ↑ a b K. Hillmann: The richest Germans - grand masters of the millipede. In: Spiegel Online - Wirtschaft , November 29, 2001
  5. ^ Federal Association of German Industry: 60 years of BDI. ( Memento of October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 7, 2009
  6. ↑ HO Eglau: Nothing in mind with new ideas. In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1984
  7. ↑ IMPAQ company profile (Source: IMPAQ Holding AG website, accessed on May 14, 2012) ( Memento from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ vicissitudes. ( Memento from August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Spiegel Online - Lexikon , 2009, p. 19.
  9. ↑ http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/18/054/1805464.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/partsfinanzierung/fundstellen50000/2016
  11. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/praesidium/partsfinanzierung/fundstellen50000/2017
  12. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/praesidium/p ...
  13. ↑ Circle of Friends and Funding Society
  14. ↑ KIt-Freundeskreis and Fördergesellschaft e. V .: Otto Haxel Awards. Retrieved February 5, 2021 .
  15. ↑ a b Hans Joachim Langmann Former Merck boss died , handelsblatt.com, February 9, 2021
  16. ^ Announcement of statements of accounts of political parties for the calendar year 2000 (PDF; 629 kB) from January 21, 2002
  17. ↑ a b Hans Joachim Langmann , whoswho.de
  18. ↑ Hans Joachim Langmann Former Merck boss has died , wiwo.de, February 9, 2021
  19. ^ M. Machatschke: Award for Langmann and Schwab . In: manager magazin of May 10, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Langmann, Hans Joachim
SHORT DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Upahl , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2021
Place of death Seeheim-Jugenheim