Hans Michael Jebsen

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Hans Michael Jebsen (born November 15, 1956 in Siegen ) is a Danish ship owner , entrepreneur and CEO of the globally operating trading company Jebsen & Co.

life and work

Hans Michael Jebsen lives in Hong Kong . Up to the age of 15 he grew up with his mother in Rendsburg and attended the humanistic high school there . In 1972 he moved to live with his father in Aabenraa , attended the German high school for North Schleswig and passed his Abitur in 1975. This was followed by a two-year banking apprenticeship at the Vereins- und Westbank in Flensburg and Hamburg and an 18-month traineeship in London at the Merchant Bank of the Inchcape Group Gray, Dawes & Co. Ltd. and the import and export company Gray, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which is also part of the group. At the end of his time in London, Hans Michael Jebsen sat in on the private bank Anthony Gibbs, one of the oldest accepting houses in the City of London.

This practical training was followed by a three-year business and economics degree at the University of Economics and Social Sciences in St. Gallen (today: University of St. Gallen - University of Economics, Law and Social Sciences) in Switzerland. Due to the early death of his father, Hans Jacob Jebsen , in 1979, Hans Michael Jebsen moved to Hong Kong as early as 1981 and was there in the management of the company of his uncle Michael Jebsen jun. Jebsen & Co Ltd. recorded. In the same year he became a junior partner in the company alongside his uncle and, after his uncle's death in 2000, became CEO of the globally operating trading company. Hans Michael Jebsen married Désirée Countess Schaffgotsch in 1987, the daughter of the Silesian banker and industrialist, Imperial Count Hans Ulrich Schaffgotsch . The marriage has five children.

After the death of his uncle in 2000 he took over the family seat "Lensnack". From 2000 to 2004 he had the manor house of the Groß Brütz manor near Schwerin , which his mother had transferred to him in 1999, restored, which his great-grandfather Georg Johannes Bock had acquired from the von Lützow family in 1862, but was expropriated after the Second World War during the GDR era . Today the manor house serves as a guest house. In 2001 Michael Jebsen bought Orebygaard Castle near Sakskøbing on Lolland . In 2009/2010 he had the head office of the M. Jebsen shipping company completely renovated and equipped with a new facade.

Awards

Board position

  • since 1994 board member of Hysan Development Company Limited, Hong Kong
  • since 2001 board member of The Wharf (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong
  • 2005 to 2013 board member of Danfoss A / S , Norburg, Denmark
  • 2006 to 2013 board member of the Bitten & Mads Clausens Fund, Denmark, and deputy chairman of the board of Danfoss A / S, Norburg, Denmark.

Other items

  • since 1997 member of the Hong Kong-European Business Cooperation Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council
  • since 2015 member of the Operations Review Committee of the independent commission against corruption

voluntary work

  • since 1989 member for life of the Society of the Academy for Performing Arts (SAPA), Hong Kong
  • since 1993 trustee of WWF , Hong Kong
  • 1994 to 2000 chairman of WWF, Hong Kong
  • 1995 to 2000 member of the International Board of Trustees of WWF , Geneva
  • since 1995 chairman and trustee of the Jebsen Educational Foundation, Hong Kong
  • 1997 to 1998 President of the German Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
  • 1999 to 2000 Chairman of the WTO Working Group of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce
  • since 1999 member of the Corporate Advisory Board of School of Business and Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • since 2000 member of the Advisory Board of the Red Cross , Hong Kong
  • 2000 to 2012 Vice President of WWF, Hong Kong
  • since 2001 Executive Councilor of the Pathways Foundation Limited, Hong Kong and member of the Advisory Board of the Asia Society Hong Kong Center
  • since 2004 Chairman of the Friends' Committee of Asian Cultural Council , Hong Kong and Trustee of the Asian Cultural Council Board of Trustees, New York
  • Advisor and Honorary Citizen of Jilin City, Jilin Province, PRC from 2005 to 2010
  • 2007 to 2013 council member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • 2007 to 2010 board member of the Danes Worldwide organization
  • since 2007 member for life of Europa Nostra
  • since 2008 member of the Asia Society Board of Trustees, Hong Kong Center
  • since 2012 Vice President of the 'Asian Cultural Council', member of the Board of Trustees, New York
  • since 2013 member of the University Court of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • 2011 to 2015 member of the Institutional Advisory & Outreach Committee of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

literature

  • 100 years of the Knivsberg Festival . Special supplement. In: Der Nordschleswiger - The German daily newspaper in Denmark , June 11, 1994
  • Dieter von Hanselmann: Jebsen & Co. Ltd, Hong Kong: the company's history from 1945 to the present . Self-published, Aabenraa 1989
  • Harboe Kardel : Knivsbergfeste-Knivsbergspiele. 1971
  • Nis-Edwin List-Petersen : Jugendhof Knivsberg. Educational facility of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, 1982
  • Jürgen Ostwald (ed.): The Knivsberg. 100 years of the German meeting place in North Schleswig Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1994
  • Günter Weitling : Jebsen & Co. in China . In: Gerd Stolz, Günter Weitling: North Schleswig - Landscape-People-Culture . Husum 2005, p. 183 ff.
  • Arne Wasmuth, Laja Mensdorff-Pouilly: The three mackerels - A portrait of the Jebsen and Jessen group of companies . Self-published, Aabenraa 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fyens.dk
  2. ↑ ust.hk
  3. ↑ Jan Peters: Hans Michael Jebsen becomes "Chamberlain" , in: Der Nordschleswiger from April 17, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ info.hktdc.com
  5. ↑ icac.org.hk
  6. ↑ hkapa.edu
  7. ↑ asiasociety.org
  8. ↑ asianculturalcouncil.org
  9. ↑ ust.hk
personal data
SURNAME Jebsen, Hans Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner, Danish shipowner, German entrepreneur, Danish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins