Karl-Ludwig Kley

Karl-Ludwig Kley (2009)

Karl-Ludwig Kley (right) together with Jon Baumhauer , Volker Bouffier and Angela Merkel on September 23, 2010

Karl-Ludwig Kley (born June 11, 1951 in Munich ) is a German manager . From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa AG. As chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA , he was of the 29 April 2016 Stefan Oschmann replaced.

Life

Kley completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Siemens AG and studied law in Munich from 1974 to 1979. After completing his legal traineeship in Hamburg and Johannesburg , he worked at Bayer AG since 1982 in the corporate finance department and as assistant to the CEO. At the same time, he completed his doctorate in 1986 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After spending time abroad as Chief Financial Officer at Bayer in Japan , he held various management positions in sales in the Pharmaceuticals division from 1987 to 1991. From 1994 to 1997 he headed Bayer’s pharmaceuticals business in Italy. He then took over the management of finance and investor relations at Bayer headquarters . In 1998, Kley moved to the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG as Chief Financial Officer . There he was responsible for the areas of investor relations, finance, accounting and group balance sheets, taxes, insurance, group purchasing, investments and economic cooperation. In September 2006 he left Lufthansa at his own request and joined the management of Merck KGaA, which he became Chairman on April 27, 2007. He succeeded Michael Römer . Since 2004 Kley has been a member of the shareholders' council of E. Merck OHG (later KG), in which the Merck family bundles their shares in Merck KGaA. On April 29, 2016, Kley handed over the chairmanship of the management to Stefan Oschmann .

During his nine-year tenure at Merck, sales grew from EUR 6.3 billion in 2006 to EUR 15.0 billion in 2016, profit from EUR 1.0 billion to EUR 1.6 billion and the number of employees from 29,999 to 50,414. Acquisitions made a major contribution to this growth . The most important were the Swiss biotechnology company Serono (2007) and the two US life science companies Millipore (2010) and Sigma-Aldrich (2015). Merck has been listed on the DAX since June 2007. He retired on April 29, 2016.

Between 2007 and 2016, Kley held various management positions in industry associations. From 2012 to 2014 he was President of the Association of the Chemical Industry (VCI) and Vice President of the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI). During his presidency, he published the book Germany Needs Chemistry in May 2014 . He has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board at E.ON since 2016 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Lufthansa since September 2017.

Kley is married and has a son, Friedrich Kley. Karl-Ludwig Kley's father Gisbert was a member of the Management Board of Siemens AG from 1964 to 1973. Kley has four brothers and one sister. His older brother is Max Dietrich Kley .

Functions

Kley was a member of various supervisory boards, including Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA (1998 to 2006), MAN AG (2005 to 2007) and Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (2007 to 2016). He is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of E.ON SE and Lufthansa AG, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG , and on the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc., New York.

• Member of the general assembly and chairman of the economic advisory board of the Goethe-Institut
• Chairman of the board of the Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks
• Member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Member of the board of trustees of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of 1. FC Köln

Awards

• Honorary professor at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
• Honorary Senator of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
• Honorary member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Association
• Minerva Medal from the University of Chieti-Pescara , Italy (2001)
• Manager of the year 2015 ( Manager Magazin )
• Hessian Order of Merit (2015)
• Supervisory Board of the year 2016, ( Handelsblatt )
• Weizmann Award in the Sciences and Humanities of the Weizmann Institute for Sciences (2016)
• German Image Award 2016 ( FAZ Institute )
• Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy ( Commendatore ) 2018
• Award for good corporate management ( German Association for Protection of Securities ) (2019)

Publications

• Germany needs chemistry. Why growth and prosperity can only be achieved with a strong chemical industry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04660-4 , 144 pp.
• Stop being silent! Managers should talk about their wages (guest post, DIE ZEIT March 2, 2017)
• The legal status of outside shareholders in the event of early termination of corporate agreements. V. Florentz Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-88259-390-3 , 256 pp.
• with Klaus G. Schlede: Practice of financing German companies through option bonds. In: Accounting for option bonds in commercial law (Ed. Walther Busse von Colbe, et al.), R. v. Decker & CF Müller Verlag, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-7910-8047-4 , pp. 1-46
• Strategic alliances as an alternative to takeovers. In: The takeover of listed companies (Eds. Rüdiger von Rosen, Werner G. Seifert), Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-9805395-7-1 , pp. 395–414
• Shares as a financing instrument. In: Concise dictionary of banking and finance (Eds. Wolfgang Gerke, Manfred Steiner), Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-79108-047-4 , pp. 35–46

Web links

Commons : Karl-Ludwig Kley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl-Ludwig Kley's curriculum vitae on the Merck website ( Memento from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) p. 173
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) p. 49
3. ↑ Kley replaces Romans. In: FAZ
4. ↑ Merck: Karl-Ludwig Kley leaves, Stefan Oschmann takes over. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Oschmann replaces Merck boss Kley. ( Memento from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Merck boss to lead chemical association.
7. ↑ apd: The good sides of "bad" chemistry ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Darmstädter Echo from May 15, 2014, p. 6.
8. ↑ mg / dpa-afx / rtr: Lufthansa: Wolfgang Mayrhuber hands over AR chairmanship to Karl-Ludwig Kley. In: Manager Magazin. September 26, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Hoffritz / storn: management: "I reveal the payments" . In: The time . October 7, 2004, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 8, 2019]).
10. ↑ Verizon Investors
11. ^ Goethe Institute committees
12. ↑ BBUG About us
13. ^ Karl-Ludwig Kley. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
14. ^ Board of Trustees: Organs: About us: Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
15. ↑ FC Advisory Board Chairman Kley is "Manager of the Year" website of 1. FC Köln, dated December 23, 2015
16. ^ Karl-Ludwig Kley - WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Karl-Ludwig Kley is the new honorary senator. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Our honorary members. In: Phi Delta Phi Hans-Jürgen Papier Inn eV Retrieved on August 8, 2019 (German). 
19. ↑ Merck boss Karl-Ludwig Kley is "Manager of the Year 2015". Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Hessian Order of Merit for Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley | Information portal Hessen. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
21. ^ Supervisory Board of the Year - Karl-Ludwig Kley: With much applause. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Excellent: Karl-Ludwig Kley receives Weizmann Award. In: CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY. February 16, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2019 (German). 
23. ↑ Ex-Merck makers Kley and Huber win Image Award. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
24. ^ Lufthansa: Karl-Ludwig Kley receives Italian state medals. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Interview: Multi-Supervisory Board Kley calls for the abolition of the Corporate Governance Code. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .