Klaus Asche

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Klaus Asche (born March 5, 1933 in Helmstedt ; † January 27, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German industrial manager and from 1981 to 1987 President of the German Brewers Association and from 1990 to 1996 President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .

education and profession

After graduating from high school Julianum in Helmstedt, Asche began commercial training at Esso AG in Hamburg in 1952 and then studied law and economics at the universities of Mainz , Göttingen , Bonn and Cologne from 1955 . In Göttingen he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne with the issue of the political thought August Ludwig von Rochau to Dr. iur.

After the assessor exam, he returned to Esso in 1963 as a legal advisor , later worked in the marketing department and was ultimately responsible for an area management based in Bremen . He was also a licensed attorney since 1964. In 1970 he moved to the Holsten Brewery in Hamburg and began there as a deputy member of the board. In 1976 he became deputy chairman of the board and then headed the company as chairman of the board from 1980 to 1996. Under his leadership, Holsten AG developed from a local brewery to the third largest brewery group in Germany.

Klaus Asche was married and has three sons.

Honorary positions

From 1979 to 1985 Asche was chairman of the Hamburg industrial association and from 1981 to 1987 he headed the German Brewers Association . He was a member of the Friday Society founded by Helmut Schmidt in 1985 . Until 1989 he was also chairman of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) . In 1990 Asche was elected President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1665, and held this office until 1996. In 1994, the outgoing Chairman of the BDI , Tyll Necker , tried to make Asche his successor with the help of a search committee, but failed internally. After Asche resigned a candidacy finally became Hans-Olaf Henkel's successor.

Asche was a member of the board of trustees from 1996 to 2008 and a member of the board of directors of the Zeit Foundation until 2010 and, as such, played a key role in founding the Bucerius Law School in 1997 . He was also a board member of the National Foundation from 1998 to 2008 and has been a member of the Senate there ever since. Until 2007 he was chairman of the administrative board of Hamburger Sparkasse and from 2005 was a member of the board of trustees of the Haspa Hamburg Foundation, later an honorary member of the board of trustees.

Orders and honors

Asche received the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1993 and the star for the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1999. Asche had previously received the Mayor Stolten Medal in 1997 as one of the highest awards of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Fonts

  • The state thought of August Ludwig von Rochau. (Dissertation, Law Faculty of the University of Cologne, July 14, 1960.) Helmstedt 1960.
  • Realizing German unity economically and socially. Conclusions from 1990. (= series of presidential speeches of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce .) Hamburg 1990.
  • Hamburger beer. Legal issues from the past and the present. In: Klaus Asche, Jan Albers, Jürgen Gündisch, Hans Seeler, Werner Thieme (eds.): Law and lawyers in Hamburg. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Hamburg 1994, pp. 225-236.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The university mourns the loss of Dr. Klaus Asche. In: law-school.de. February 8, 2017, accessed March 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ manager-magazin 6/1975, pp. 75-77.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Köhler: Article German Industry: The beer brewer Klaus Asche is to become the next chief lobbyist: New Revier . Die Zeit , August 5, 1994, accessed February 1, 2017.
  4. ^ Chairwoman of the IVH Board of Directors . Website of the Hamburg Industry Association, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ The choice of candidates was not without controversy: IBM manager Henkel has been nominated as the new BDI president . Computerwoche , October 7, 1994, accessed February 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ Kirsten Drees: Karl-Joachim Dreyer elected to the board of trustees of the Hamburg ZEIT Foundation . Science Information Service , November 13, 2008, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Barbara Gauer: 15 years at Bucerius Law School . Bucerius Law School, May 22, 2015, accessed February 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ludwig Rademacher: Dr. Wolfgang Peiner is a new member of the board of the National Foundation . Press release of the German National Foundation , June 10, 2008, accessed on February 1, 2017 (pdf, 33 kB).
  9. ↑ Organs and acting persons of the Haspa Hamburg Foundation. ( Memento from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Haspa Hamburg Foundation, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ High distinction for Klaus Asche . Hamburger Abendblatt , September 4, 1999, accessed on February 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ashes, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017
Place of death Hamburg