Joachim F. Christopeit
Joachim Friedrich Karl Christopeit (born December 16, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German manager. Between 1980 and 2000 he headed the AVIA group . He has been working as a consultant since retiring. He is best known as an expert on Middle East economic issues and is considered one of the earliest and most determined proponents of corporate governance conceptsin German corporate culture.
family
Joachim Christopeit was born in Berlin in 1936 as the third of four children. His father was the agronomist Kurt Christopeit, co-founder of the Green Week and managing director of the Association of the German Tobacco Industry. He is married and has two children.
education
After graduating from high school in 1956, Christopeit completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Mannesmann company in Düsseldorf. From 1956 to 1960 he studied law and economics in Heidelberg , Bonn and Cologne. In 1957 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg . In 1960 he passed the legal traineeship exam. After working as a research assistant to Professors Walter Erman and P. Möhring in Cologne from 1960 to 1966, Christopeit did his doctorate on Hermes cover - position in the system of export promotion, economic-political significance with a comparative legal evaluation with summa cum laude to the Doctor iuris utriusque at the University of Cologne. In 1967 he completed the assessor exam.
job and career
From 1967 to 1969 Christopeit was Regierungsassessor the Regional Finance Office Dusseldorf until 1970 head of a policy department of Hermes Kreditversicherungs AG in Hamburg was where he was adopted by the German parliament and by the other EC states, inter alia, export-exchange guarantee developed. Since 1976 Christopeit has been finance director and authorized signatory of L. & C. Steinmüller GmbH. He founded the Potleh company for L. & C. Steinmüller in Tehran , Iran , and joined its management team. Later he also founded Steinmüller Pty. Ld. In Johannesburg in South Africa , of which he was part of the management.
In 1980 he was recruited by the company AVIA Mineralöl-AG in Munich. There he became CEO in 1980 . Later he also joined the parent holding company of Euravia AG and AVIA International in Zurich as Senior Vice President . In the 1990s he also founded and managed OTG Oil Trading GmbH.
Manager of AVIA Mineralöl-AG
When he first started working for the company, Christopeit was concerned with a scandal in the oil trade. Before joining the medium-sized company AVIA Mineralöl-AG had concluded extraordinarily large and high-volume oil contracts with Saudi Arabia, whereas competitors such as Shell , BP and the like. a. were left out. Leading circles in the company were suspected of illegal or unclean business conduct, and there were rumors of bribes being paid to the highest political circles. Christopeit was able to settle the dispute with competitors, suppliers and agents out of court and in this way avoided another public scandal.
From 1980 to 2000 Christopeit increased the company's turnover from 0.7 billion DM to 1.9 billion DM and increased the company's capital from 5 million DM to 17 million DM. In the press, the flourishing company was referred to as the “spearhead of the German Mittelstand “. In the 1990s, AVIA Mineralöl-AG grew to become the sixth largest petrol station operator in Germany and became one of the ten largest mineral oil trading groups in Europe. As Senior Vice President of Euravia AG and AVIA International in Zurich, Christopeit played a key role in coordinating the internationalization of the AVIA Group, which was the second largest mineral oil company in Switzerland at the time. Under Christopeit, AVIA was the most widespread non-group mineral oil brand in Europe. At the turn of the millennium, Christopeit left management and retired.
Career after retirement
Various advisory activities followed upon retirement, e. B. for Tank & Rast . In 1999 Christopeit was appointed lecturer and later professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), where he has been lecturing on international business law and management of international companies ever since. In 2003 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the University of the State of Qatar for special services to the exchange between Germany and Qatar. Since 2004 he has been lecturing as a professor at the chair for international capital markets at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), which has sent him to the faculty council of the business administration faculty since 2006 . Since 2007 he has lectured at the University of Salzburg on international business law as part of the Master of Laws program, the law degree and the law and economics degree.
In addition, he founded MSE International Development GmbH , based in Munich, a management consultancy for medium-sized companies and for the search for international investors, mainly from the Middle East .
The time after retirement is characterized by efforts to create a modern but socially responsible entrepreneurship. He is considered a controversial advocate of corporate governance . In 2005 Christopeit founded with other managers - such as the native Austrian and former BMW and VW board member Robert Büchelhofer, who failed at his last employer at the Phaeton ; the former Lufthansa and rail board member Hemjö Klein and the former Bayer board member Werner Spinner - a non-profit foundation under the auspices of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which is dedicated to training and scientific processing of the topic of corporate governance and companies in filling management positions advises.
Christopeit continues to work actively as a lawyer in Munich.
Memberships and mandates
Christopeit is
- Advisory board of Coface Deutschland (general credit insurance) in Mainz,
- Advisor of the Board of individual mineral oil companies or distributors and
- Swiss private bank ,
- Member of the Institute of Petroleum in London and
- Member of the Center for Global Energy Studies in London,
- Founding member of the Neumann Leadership Foundation Corporate Governance , see above,
- Member of the faculty council of the business administration faculty of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), also
- Member of the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS) and the Bar Association for the Munich Higher Regional Court.
Publications
- Hermes cover, position in the system of export promotion, economic policy significance with comparative legal assessment . CH Beck, Munich 1968
- Hand Commentary on the Civil Code ; by W. Erman, revision of the 4th edition; Aschendorff, Münster 1968.
- Guarantees from the Federal Republic of Germany to promote German exports ; Revised comment by Ernst Schallehn; Verlag Schmidt, Cologne 1970–1974
- The shaping of the international manager by the globalization of the economy . In: The Globalized Man . Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 2004/2005
- Essays, e.g. B. Succession protection for license chains (UrhG) , in: ZIP 2013, 345 (together with Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler)
- Lectures and expert opinions (especially for the Federal Court of Justice )
swell
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 131 , 800
- ↑ Übersinnliche Mächte , in: Der Spiegel , Issue 38/1981 of September 14, 1981, pp. 92–99; Fear of rampaging , ibid. Issue 18/1984 of April 30, 1984, pp. 72-79; both accessed on October 22, 2016.
- ↑ Bye-Bye, Büchelhofer! In: Manager Magazin, April 8, 2003, accessed December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Entry for Hemjö Klein in the Munzinger archive , accessed on December 13, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christopeit, Joachim F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Christopeit, Joachim Friedrich Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |