Klaus-Peter Müller

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Klaus-Peter Müller (2018)

Klaus-Peter Müller (born September 16, 1944 in Duppach ) was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank until the Annual General Meeting on May 8, 2018 .

Career

Klaus-Peter Müller is the son of Peter Müller , a former honorary mayor of Düsseldorf . After his apprenticeship at the Friedrich Simon bank in Düsseldorf (1962–1964), he completed his military service (1964–1966), among other things as a reserve officer candidate at the station of the troop for psychological defense Radio Andernach . His last rank was first lieutenant in the reserve.

In 1966, Müller joined Commerzbank as an employee . From 1966 to 1968 he worked in the Düsseldorf branch and from 1968 to 1973 in New York . In 1973 the bank commissioned him to manage the Düsseldorf branch , and from 1977 to 1982 he was co-manager of the Duisburg branch . From 1982 to 1986 he was co-director of the New York branch. For the years 1987 to 1990 he was appointed general manager of the central department for corporate customers in Frankfurt am Main , before he took over the position of head of the central department " Structure East " in February 1990 .

Müller had been a member of the Board of Management of Commerzbank since November 1, 1990, and its spokesman since May 25, 2001. On May 15, 2008, he moved to the Supervisory Board . Martin Blessing was his successor as CEO .

On January 17, 2007, Klaus-Peter Müller was awarded an honorary professorship at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management . The laudatory speech at the award ceremony was held by the former Federal President Roman Herzog , among others . In the same year, the first Celle trialogue to deepen the relations between business, politics and the armed forces took place at the invitation of Klaus-Peter Müller and Major General Wolf Langheld, commander of the 1st Panzer Division in Hanover, under the patronage of the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff .

Klaus-Peter Müller is committed to the principles of the social market economy . In 2008, Müller succeeded Gerhard Cromme as chairman of the government commission on the German Corporate Governance Code set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice in September 2001 (Commission for good corporate governance ). This had recently dealt with the issue of management board remuneration in listed stock corporations and proposed both a limit on salaries and more transparency in the disclosure of management board remuneration. In spring 2013, Müller announced that he would resign from the chairmanship of the commission.

Due to his professional qualifications, Müller was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Defense in April 2015 to lead an expert group in response to the criticism of the G36 assault rifle , which was supposed to "look for weak points in the organizational structure of the ministry and the Bundeswehr".

Memberships (selection)

Awards

criticism

In 2006, Commerzbank, under the leadership of Klaus-Peter Müller, took over the shares of Deutsche Bank and Allianz (Dresdner Bank) in Eurohypo , the largest European real estate and public financier at the time. In 2009 the takeover of Dresdner Bank was completed under his supervision . Both takeovers, in connection with the global economic and financial crisis, meant that Commerzbank had to use funds from the financial market stabilization fund. Regardless of this, Klaus-Peter Müller still believes the acquisition of Dresdner Bank is the right one. In retrospect, the time turned out to be "unfortunate".

Web links

Commons : Klaus-Peter Müller  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corporate ethics and responsibility. Event reports. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, May 17, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Jahn: Klaus-Peter Müller resigns: Code committee needs a new boss. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 19, 2013, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ G36 assault rifle: Opposition warns von der Leyen of cover-up. Zeit Online , April 11, 2015, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Committees. DFL Foundation, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Board of Trustees. Commerzbank Foundation, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Trilateral Commission. (PDF) November 2015, accessed on March 22, 2019 (English).
  7. ↑ Honorary Members. In: Prinzenclub Düsseldorf. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Honorary Members. Düsseldorfer Jonges, accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Tim Kanning: Eurohypo: A bank is disappearing. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 30, 2012, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ S. Jost, A. Rexer: Commerzbank: No mistake left out - The Eurohypo drama. In: Welt Online. March 1, 2012, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Rolf Obertreis: Commerzbank is the second largest German bank. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 16, 2005, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ The rescue package for Commerzbank is ready. In: Handelsblatt. December 19, 2008, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mark Fehr, Cornelius Welp: Commerzbank supervisory board chief Müller: "I would buy Dresdner Bank again". Interview. In: WirtschaftsWoche. February 8, 2013, accessed March 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager, former management board spokesman and chairman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Duppach