Jürgen Oppermann

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Jürgen Oppermann (born May 20, 1947 in Hamburg ) is a former German entrepreneur and racing car driver .

Entrepreneur

Jürgen Oppermann graduated from secondary school in the late 1960s and, after two years of training at a commercial school, joined the family-owned company that sold welding electrodes as a commercial clerk . He started selling promotional items in the 1970s . At the beginning he only had lighters in his range and sales were slow. The company began to grow in the 1980s. The location was relocated to Neumünster and at the end of the decade Oppermann Werbemittel GmbH had 2,000 employees, 700,000 customers and a turnover of 350 million German marks . In 1988 the GmbH became a stock corporation in which the Oppermann family owned 60% of the shares. In 1990 he sold his shares to the Kaufhof Group for 338.4 million German marks . Sales were not without turbulence. The then Kaufhof CEO Jens Odewald felt himself misled by Oppermann about the value of the company and sued in 1991 for 170 million German marks in damages. In 1992 the lawsuit was dismissed in the first instance. 1994 Kaufhof also lost in the second instance.

In 1989 Oppermann founded the Save Our Future foundation and is one of the 500 richest Germans . In 2014, he was 492nd on this list with an estimated fortune of 250 million euros.

Career in motorsport

Oppermann was an amateur racing driver for several years. He competed in races in the Interseries and the German Racing Championship . In 1990 he drove one season in the sports car world championship . He also competed twice in the Le Mans 24-hour race , where he finished seventh overall in 1993 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1990 GermanyGermany Obermeier Racing Porsche 962C BelgiumBelgium Marc Duez GermanyGermany Harald Grohs failure Gearbox damage
1993 GermanyGermany Obermaier Racing GmbH Porsche 962C SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lori's cauldron GermanyGermany Otto Altenbach Rank 7

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The sale of Oppermann AG to Kaufhof
  2. ^ Kaufhof versus Oppermann 1st instance
  3. ^ Kaufhof versus Oppermann 2nd instance
personal data
SURNAME Oppermann, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and car racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg