Jens Odewald

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Jens Odewald (born September 21, 1940 in Hanover ) is a German business manager . Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Tchibo Holding AG and chairman of the board of management of Kaufhof AG. In 1996 he founded the investment company Odewald & Cie.

Life

Jens Odewald, who comes from a civil servant family, studied law and business administration in Freiburg, Geneva, Göttingen and Heidelberg after graduating from high school in 1960. In Freiburg he became a member of the Cimbria Freiburg regional team in the CC . He passed the legal state examination in 1967 and continued studying business administration during his legal clerkship . At the end of 1967 he did his doctorate in law at the University of Göttingen on the subject of "The parliamentary auxiliary service in the United States of America and in the Federal Republic of Germany". While working, he later completed further training as a tax advisor .

In 1968 he started working in the areas of finance, accounting and taxes at Esso Germany in Hamburg and was promoted to head of the tax department. In 1974 he left the company and became a member of the management of the Swiss logistics group Kuehne + Nagel (responsible for finance) as well as the company's general manager for Germany. 1978/1979 he joined as a partner in the medium-sized accounting firm Hamburger & Partner Susat one.

In May 1979 Odewald was appointed member of the Board of Management responsible for finance at Kaufhof , at the beginning of January 1984 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management and in June 1985 Chairman of the Board. Under Odewald's leadership, takeovers and investments were made for the purpose of diversifying group activities (including Reno , Mac Fash, Hawesko , Media-Markt , Saturn-Hansa , Maxdata , Bilka ) and restructuring ( Kaufhalle AG ). The group's sales tripled to 25 billion Deutschmarks ; some of the specialty store chains developed into European market leaders. In a dispute with Erwin Conradi , Odewald left the company in 1995, four years before his contract expired.

Parallel to his work at Kaufhof, Odewald was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the federally owned Treuhandanstalt in Berlin from August 29, 1990 to April 20, 1993 and from 1995 to 1996 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the successor BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH . During his Treuhand and Kaufhof time, among other things, the East German tour operator Jugendtourist was taken over by ITS Landesreisedienste GmbH (at that time the tourism division of Kaufhof AG) for around 1.3 million DM and the East German travel agency chain European travel agency ERB Reiseienst GmbH from the Treuhand, whereby Odewald was not involved in the negotiations by his own account.

In 1996 Odewald founded the private equity company Odewald & Compagnie , which specializes in investments in medium-sized companies, in Berlin and retired from operational business in 2010 at the age of 70, but is still represented on its supervisory board.

In several of the companies in which Odewald & Compagnie took a stake, as well as in other companies (including Bankgesellschaft Berlin ), Odewald was or is a member or chairman of the supervisory board, including Euro Disneyland , Tchibo Holding , Tuja Zeitarbeit and trans-o-flex (logistics service provider).

Other functions and engagements

Since 1995 Odewald has been a member of the board of trustees of the Fazit-Stiftung , the majority owner of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH and Frankfurter Societäts -Druckerei GmbH. Since 2001 he has been a member and currently a board member of the Humboldt University Society (an association founded in 1996 by friends, alumni and sponsors of the Humboldt University in Berlin ). At the beginning of 2008 he was one of the four founding founders and chairman of the board of trustees of the Humboldt University Foundation .

From August 29, 1990 to April 20, 1993 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Treuhandanstalt .

In 2007 he was sent by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, together with Roland Oetker and Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner , to the board of trustees of the newly established RAG hard coal foundation. In addition, Odewald is involved in the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation (chairman of the jury for the “Prize for the Social Market Economy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation”) and in the CDU Economic Council (where he was temporarily a member of the federal executive board). Odewald is chairman of the association "wir for Germany" founded by him and other people in business, which among other things organized the Berlin "Deutschlandfest" in 1994 to mark the anniversary of German unification , and is a member of the board of trustees for awarding the " Die Quadriga " prize of the association "werkstatt deutschland ".

When, after the discovery of the CDU donation affair, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl collected funds to compensate for claims made against the party, Jens Odewald, who is a CDU member, donated 325,000 D-Marks together with his wife Jutta. In 2009 Odewald was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly for the CDU .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b pioneer for investments in German medium-sized companies. Odewald & Cie, accessed June 1, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Gunhild Freese: A group is being turned inside out . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1987
  3. ^ Sören Jensen and Dietmar Student: Metro Cash & Carry .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Manager Magazin , No. 7, July 1, 1998, p. 60@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.manager-magazin.de  
  4. ^ Jens Odewald: Dismissal at the Kaufhof . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1995, pp. 264 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Sören Jensen: The Chancellor .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Manager Magazin , issue 10/1994, October 1, 1994, pp. 45–51.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.manager-magazin.de  
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Seibel: Managed Illusions: The privatization of the GDR economy by the Treuhandanstalt and its successors 1990-2000 . Campus Verlag, 2005, p. 129.
  7. ↑ The takeover was based on a contract dated September 24, 1991. Heike Behre: Privatization during Market Economy Transformation . In: Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli (Ed.): Tourism and politics. Global Frameworks and Local Realities . Elsevier Science & Technology, 2006, ISBN 978-0-08-045075-9 , pp. 33-58 (here: p. 42).
  8. ↑ Sören Jensen: The Kraken's grip  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Manager Magazin , Issue 3/1992, March 1, 1992, pp. 54-55@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.manager-magazin.de  
  9. ↑ Susanne Gläser : Odewald - The growth drivers on vc-magazin.de from February 28, 2012, accessed on May 30, 2014.
  10. ↑ khd-research.net - Berlin
  11. ↑ Member of the Supervisory Board until May 26, 1999 according to Spiegel Online , May 31, 2001
  12. ↑ Chairman of the supervisory board until August 2003, replaced by Reinhard Pöllath at his own request , then continued to be a simple member. Tchibo: The Herz family goes their separate ways , Manager Magazin , August 18, 2003
  13. ↑ Jens Kohrs: Marguerite friend with a steep career . In: Die Welt , June 4, 2005
  14. ↑ hu-berlin.de
  15. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
  16. ↑ KAS
  17. ↑ Otto Köhler : A chair, please! In: Die Zeit , No. 37/1994
  18. ↑ loomarea.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / loomarea.com  
  19. ↑ focus.de
personal data
SURNAME Odewald, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover