Ian Karan

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Ian Karan with his wife Barbara at the matinee for Siegfried Lenz for his 85th birthday in 2011

Ian Kiru Karan (born June 17, 1939 in Point Pedro on Ceylon ) is a Hamburg entrepreneur , politician and patron . From August 25, 2010 to March 7, 2011, he was Senator for Economics and Labor for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Ian Kiru Karan was born in the small town of Point Pedro in the far north of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) when Ceylon was still a British crown colony . His mother died during his birth, which was performed by caesarean section . Three years later - in August 1942 - his father died as an Aircraftman 2nd Class (equivalent to a soldier in the Air Force ) of the Royal Indian Air Force in North Africa during World War II . As an orphan, he grew up with his grandmother in northern Ceylon. In 1955 Karan came to London on a sports scholarship , where he studied at the London School of Economics . He left university without a degree and worked for the English branch of the logistics company Schenker .

In 1970 Karan went to Hamburg, where he briefly worked as a dishwasher. There he continued to work in the logistics industry and founded his first company in 1975, Clou Container , which he sold in the mid-1990s. In 1996 he founded the company capital lease , in 2007 the market for leasing of containers with half a million TEU was eighth in the world. In 2007 he sold the company he ran to a fund launched by DVB Bank , and Textainer took over the operational business . Karan kept Capital Intermodal GmbH , which should concentrate on the business with special containers. Karan has consolidated his financial activities and associated companies in CLOU Container Leasing GmbH . In the 2008 financial year, CLOU Container Leasing had a turnover of 32 million euros and a balance sheet value of 101 million euros. Karan is married and has four children.

Karan is active in various advisory boards and as a party donor and participates as a patron in the promotion of sports and culture. Among other things, he donated the Ian Karan Auditorium in the Bucerius Kunst Forum and is chairman of the board of trustees at the Hamburg theater festival . In June 2007 Karan received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his "social, social and cultural commitment". Until 2004, Karan donated a total of 44,500 euros to the right-wing populist party of the Rule of Law Offensive of the former Hamburg Interior Senator Ronald Schill . In January 2008 Karan donated 100,000 euros to the CDU through CLOU Container Leasing , and then a year later 200,000 euros. In total, the CDU von Karan received 570,000 euros at the federal level until 2010. Since 2009 he has been a supervisory board member of both Hamburger SV and the Hamburg Port Authority . In December 2009 Karan took German citizenship in addition to British citizenship .

On August 25, 2010, Karan was elected as successor to Axel Gedaschko into the office of Hamburg Senator for Economic Affairs in the Senate of Ahlhaus . Shortly before his election, he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that he had fondled several details of his biography in the past. For example, the reason for dropping out at the London School of Economics was not his commitment to the Vietnam War , but rather high absenteeism. After the break of the black-green regional coalition and the early general election in February 2011, Karan resigned from the Senate on March 7, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Camilla John, Philip Volkmann-Schluck: Boxers with a heart: Ian Karan is the new Senator for Economics . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 16, 2010.
  2. ↑ Casualty Details: Karan, Bir Singh (Service No. 10477). In: Commonwealth War Graves Commission database .
  3. ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Dishwasher, Container King, Senator . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 17, 2010.
  4. ^ A b Matthias Onken, Martin Schnitker: "Women work the field better than men" - Interview with entrepreneur Ian Karan . In: Bild newspaper from January 8, 2009.
  5. ↑ DVB Fund and Textainer team up to buy Capital Lease ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) DVB Bank press release from July 24, 2007.
  6. ↑ Capital Intermodal GmbH (HRB 95903, Hamburg District Court), the company website is operated by Capital Intermodal Ltd., Hong Kong.
  7. ↑ Rolf Zamponi: Hamburger Container-König gets out . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 25, 2007.
  8. ↑ Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1 to December 31, 2008 of CLOU Container Leasing GmbH (HRB 15938, Hamburg District Court), published on April 13, 2010 in the Electronic Federal Gazette .
  9. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Ian Kiru Karan . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 29, 2007.
  10. ^ A b c Hendrik Ankenbrand: The cheating of the Hamburg political star . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , No. 33/2010 of August 22, 2010, p. 37.
  11. ↑ German Bundestag Durcksache 16/8169 of 19 February 2008 (PDF file)
  12. ^ Party donations from Clou Container Leasing GmbH and Evonik Industries AG ( Memento from August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag news / briefing from March 2, 2009.
  13. ↑ HSV: These are the new members of the supervisory board . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 26, 2009.
  14. ↑ Senator for Economic Affairs Gedaschko wins Ian K. Karan for the HPA Supervisory Board . Press release of the Authority for Economy and Labor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from November 19, 2009.
  15. ↑ Seventh naturalization ceremony in Hamburg City Hall ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Press release from the Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on December 14, 2009.
  16. ↑ Florian Gathmann: Shimmering Hanse-Croesus . In: Der Spiegel from August 17, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Karan, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karan, Ian Kiru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Point Pedro on Ceylon