Jobst Wagner

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Jobst Wagner (2015)

Jobst Wagner (born February 20, 1959 in Rehau ; legal resident in Bern ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and patron .

Life

After attending school in Canada, Germany and Switzerland, Jobst Wagner studied law at the University of Bern from 1979 to 1985 and graduated with a licentiate . From 1986 onwards, he worked in various positions at the polymer processor Rehau , which was founded in 1948 by his father Helmut Wagner in Rehau , Upper Franconia . In 2000 he handed over the management to his two sons Jobst and Veit Wagner. The business magazine Bilanz estimates the wealth of the Wagner family in the list of the 300 richest in Switzerland at 800 to 900 million francs. Jobst Wagner is a passionate polo player at the Polo Club Bern, which he co-founded in 2007 and which he is president of. And he collects Swiss art by artists such as Franz Gertsch, Markus Raetz , Marcel Gähler , Julia Steiner and Mario Sala Jobst Wagner has three grown children and lives in Muri near Bern .

Entrepreneur

As Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rehau Group , he heads a group with over 20,000 employees at more than 170 locations in more than 70 countries.

The traditional family company is active as a system manufacturer of polymer-based solutions in the fields of construction, automotive and industry around the globe.

Wagner is a co-founder of the “Entrepreneurship High Franconia”. The aim of the association is to create greater awareness for the region, increase its attractiveness and intensify contact between companies and the population.

Patronage and social commitment

At the headquarters in Rehau in Upper Franconia, Wagner makes art accessible to employees and the public with the "Rehau Art" art gallery and the changing events and exhibitions there. For example, woodcuts by Franz Gertsch were exhibited in Rehau .

Wagner supports a large number of cultural institutions in Switzerland. Among other things, he is President of the Kunsthalle Bern Foundation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Contemporary Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the Bern University of the Arts . Together with the "Entrepreneurial Initiative Hochfranken", Wagner supports the Hof International Film Festival . He also supports the Swiss Book Prize with CHF 10,000 a year. Wagner is a member of the board of directors of SMH Verlag AG, which publishes the authors' magazine Swiss Month , in which he also writes. He is the initiator of the strategy dialogue21 think tank . This sees itself as a dialogue platform with a focus on federal liberal values ​​and the strategic approaches and impulses for Switzerland derived from them. Together with Hansjörg Wyss , Wagner founded the "Vorteil Schweiz" association to save the bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the European Union .

honors and awards

literature

  • Makers and patrons. In: WirtschaftsBlatt . November 9, 2006, p. 6. ( http://www.wirtschaftsblatt.at/archiv/wirtschaft/11621/index.do ( Memento of July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ).
  • Tradition of patronage - entrepreneurs and their collections. In: Wirtschaftskurier. November 2007.
  • A chapel for art. In: Wirtschaftskurier. November 2007.
  • Color space full of force. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 22, 2008.
  • Tricks from Rehau. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 25, 2008.
  • Swiss standards - from the best family: 100 exemplary Swiss family businesses, ISBN 978-3-03823-606-1 .
  • Between plastic and art - Jobst Wagner is an entrepreneur, patron and art collector. An entire region benefits from his passion. In: wir - the magazine for business families. Edition 2/2012. Pages 42–45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jobst Wagner: On the sunny side , business magazine Bilanz , issue 06/09, March 27, 2009
  2. ↑ 300 Richest: Wagner family  ( 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. , Business magazine Bilanz@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / tools.bilanz.ch  
  3. ↑ Simon Scheidegger: Between meeting and polo field . Bern newspaper. July 4, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Marco Zanono: «What does Switzerland want? Where do we want to go?" Interview with Jobst Wagner . Ed .: Migros Magazin. Issue 21. Zurich, May 19, 2014.
  5. ^ Rehau Group: The REHAU company
  6. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/buecher/Manhaben-frage-ich-mich-Was-ist-das-eigentlich-fuer-ein-Quatsch/story/16011817
  7. ↑ Commitment within the "Strategiedialog21 Foundation" ( memento of the original from January 26, 2016 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. , Strategy Dialog21  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strategiedialog21.ch
  8. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Millionen-fuer-den-Erhalt-der-Bilateralen/story/28022435
  9. ↑ Jobst Wagner receives the State Medal for special services to the Bavarian economy | City of Rehau. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 4, 2018 .  ( 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: Toter Link / www.stadt-rehau.de  
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Jobst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau