Hartwig Piepenbrock
Hartwig Piepenbrock (born March 25, 1937 in Osnabrück ; † July 3, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur , patron , honorary consul of the Bahamas and honorary professor . He spent the last years of his life in the Villa Lemm in Berlin-Gatow . It was known that he had suffered from dementia for several years, which was also the reason for the Piepenbrock Cultural Foundation to launch the Hartwig-Piepenbrock DZNE Research Prize in 2011, which is awarded every two years together with the DZNE and is endowed with € 60,000.
Life
In 1955, the trained building cleaner joined his father's company. He made Piepenbrock Service GmbH the largest facility management service company in Germany. In 2000 he handed over management of the company to his three children, daughter Astrid Hamker and sons Arnulf and Olaf Piepenbrock. Piepenbrock still held 51 percent of the Piepenbrock Group, but was represented by his wife Maria-Theresia Piepenbrock. The three children hold 49 percent of the company's shares.
In addition to managing the company, Hartwig Piepenbrock was involved in the arts and founded a cultural foundation in 1988 for the company's 75th anniversary. This is involved in cultural sponsorship and awarded the highest endowed sculpture prize in Europe, the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture, every two years until 2008 . Since 1994, the group has also financed the Piepenbrock Art Prize, which is awarded annually to art students at the University of Osnabrück .
Hartwig Piepenbrock was also president of the sports club VfL Osnabrück from 1971 to 1996 .
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts
- Honorary Senator of the Hanover University of Music and Theater (HMTH)
- 1995: Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
- 2001: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
- 2002: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
- Literature by and about Hartwig Piepenbrock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Hartwig Piepenbrock
- The Tagesspiegel about Hartwig Piepenbrock (March 3, 2005)
- Vita Hartwig Piepenbrock as a PDF document
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Clasen: Entrepreneur Hartwig Piepenbrock is dead. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 4th 2013.
- ↑ a b Bernd Matthies : The service provider - Obituary for Hartwig Piepenbrock. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 5, 2013.
- ^ Family row in the Piepenbrock house / In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , October 1, 2009.
- ↑ Family company mourns Hartwig Piepenbrock. In: piepenbrock.de , July 3, 2013.
- ↑ Website for the Piepenbrock Art Prize
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Jörg Sennheiser becomes Honorary Senator of the HMTH. HMTH press release of May 11, 2009, accessed on July 22, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piepenbrock, Hartwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |