Henning J. Claassen

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Henning Jörg Claassen (born February 4, 1944 in Lüneburg ) is a German entrepreneur.

Life

After training as an industrial clerk, he booked a freighter passage to California at the age of 20 . There he graduated from high school and completed an economics / psychology degree, which he earned by repairing office machines himself.

In 1967 he returned to Lüneburg and founded his first company in 1971 and Meltex GmbH in 1973. He sold the mechanical engineering company with 240 employees in Lüneburg, 50 employees in Atlanta / USA, worldwide commercial agencies and a turnover of 30 million euros to the American group Nordson Corporation in 1989 . In 1983 he founded the Impreglon Group, which emerged from a Meltex coating company and gradually transformed it into an international service company for surface technology with 37 locations in 15 countries after 1989. The company went public in 2006 and was sold to the Dutch Aalberts Group in 2014 .

In 1989, after a two-year construction phase, Claassen opened the “Hotel Bergström” in Lüneburg, which he expanded into a hotel ensemble with 131 rooms in the following years. Since 2006 it has been the setting for the telenovela " Rote Rosen ". At the end of 2017, Claasen sold its Bergström property to a hotel group.

In February 2010, after two years of extensive restoration, he opened the “Altes Kaufhaus” hotel, his second in the city's historic water district. In the same year the gallery opened in the old department store with its private collection of contemporary art.

After an extensive complete renovation, he opened the “Relais & Chateau Parkhotel de Wiemsel” in Ootmarsum, the Netherlands, in 2015 . In 2017, after a complete renovation, the reopening of the historic “Forsthaus Rote Schleuse” restaurant in Lüneburg followed.

Claassen is socially committed as a sponsor of young company founders and young talents in the cultural field, as a sponsor of an orphanage for tsunami victims in India, founder and sponsor of the "Protect the Victims" initiative, as long-term chairman of the St. Nicolai Community Foundation in his hometown. He is an active sponsor of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and is involved in support projects for students.

In April 2017 Claassen was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lüneburg.

Companies

  • 1971–1989 Meltex Group
  • 1989 Claassen Holding Group

Awards

  • 1995 Award from the city of Lüneburg for the beautification of the cityscape and the renovation of old buildings
  • 2003 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
  • 2004 Citizen of the Year 2004, award from the Lüneburg Citizens' Association
  • 2017 honorary citizen of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red-blue-white folder 2017. (PDF (21.8 MB)) In: http://www.buergerverein-lueneburg.de . 2017, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Antje Schäfer: The Lord of the Water District. In: landeszeitung.de. September 26, 2016, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Annual report 2014. (PDF (18.9 MB)) In: aalberts.com. 2015, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Claassen parted ways with Hotel Bergström. In: landeszeitung.de. September 18, 2017, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Opening of the "Altes Kaufhaus" hotel in Lüneburg ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the Lüneburger Heide.de website from February 3, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lueneburger-heide.de
  6. ↑ St. Nicolai Civic Foundation ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergerstiftung-st-nicolai.de
  7. ↑ a b Ulf Stüwe: Lüneburg: Honorary Citizenship for Henning J. Claassen. In: landeszeitung.de. April 4, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Laudation by Mayor Ulrich Mädge on the "Citizen of the Year" Henning J. Claassen (PDF; 451 kB) from November 27, 2004 in red-blue-white folder 2005 of the Lüneburg Citizens' Association p. 27, 28 on buergerverein- lueneburg.de, accessed on February 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Claassen, Henning J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claassen, Henning Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg