Heinz Wings
Heinz Wings (born January 30, 1952 in Eschweiler - Dürwiß ) is a former German bank manager. He is considered one of the pioneers in the development of online banking in Europe .
Career
Heinz Wings completed an apprenticeship as a banker at today's Sparkasse Düren . He then completed a business degree at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . This was followed by positions in the planning staff of Nord / LB and in the extended management of Bankhaus Partin .
In 1987, Heinz Wings was appointed to the management board of Sparda-Bank Hamburg , and from 1999 to January 2015 as its chairman. One focus of his work there was the development of electronic payments. Sparda-Bank Hamburg was the first bank in Germany to offer current accounts on the Internet. For the first time, the bank also introduced chip-based external security systems for data transmission. In 1998 Wings was the initiator of Netbank , Europe's first pure internet bank. He was the first chairman of the board and long-time chairman of the supervisory board (July 2000 to November 2015).
In 1999, Wings received his doctorate from the computer science department of the University of Regensburg with a thesis on innovative bank management strategies.
Heinz Wings has been retired since February 1st, 2015.
engagement
Honorary positions
- Since 2008 chairman of the board of trustees of the David Ben-Gurion Foundation in Germany
- 2009 to January 2015 Chairman of the Sparda-Bank Hamburg Foundation
Other activities / mandates
- Since 1993 member of the editorial advisory board of the magazine GI Geldinstitute
- 2005 - 2017 member of the advisory board of the Deutsche Bundesbank , head office in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- 2006 to January 2015 member of the supervisory board of Union Asset-Management Holding AG
- 2007 to January 2015 Deputy Chairman of the Association of Sparda Banks
- 2011 - end of 2019 expert of the Exchange Council of the Hamburg Stock Exchange
- 2012 to January 2015 member of the advisory board of EBZ Business School Nord
Awards / nominations
- 1999 The London research agency Lafferty nominated Wings as “Best Online Banking Manager” in Europe
- 2015 Golden Badge of Honor of the German Cooperative Association (DGRV)
- 2015 Golden Merit Pin of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association (SHFV)
- 2015 Bar of Honor from the Hamburg Football Association (HFV)
- 2015 Rudolf-Hellebrandt-Prize of the Fördergemeinschaft Kinderkrebs-Zentrum Hamburg e. V.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Wings: A banker who loves writing , Hamburger Abendblatt, September 5, 2003
- ↑ Payment transactions on the Internet: As secure as Fort Knox? , Berliner Zeitung, September 13, 1996
- ↑ cyber money in the till , Der Spiegel, July 22, 1996
- ↑ New competition for banks , Die Welt, June 22, 1999
- ^ Heinz Wings: Vita. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Strategic Bank Management - A Technology-Based Approach , University of Regensburg 1999
- ^ Rudolf-Hellebrandt-Prize , Fördergemeinschaft Kinderkrebsz-Zentrum Hamburg e. V.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wings, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bank manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eschweiler - Dürwiß , Germany |