Klaus Götte (Manager)
Klaus Götte (born April 22, 1932 in Diepholz ; † May 7, 2009 ) was a German bank and industry manager. From 1983 to 1996 he was CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) and was responsible for its conversion to today's MAN AG.
Life
Götte studied law in Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1955 with a thesis on international law on the UN . After working at the private bank Trinkaus & Burkhardt and Friedr. Krupp GmbH , he was appointed to the board of Allianz Versicherungs AG in 1972 . After a two-year interlude in the management of the Flick Group , Götte was sent to the MAN AG Supervisory Board in 1983 on behalf of Allianz . At the time, it was still a subsidiary of Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, and at the beginning of the 1980s it got into a serious crisis that also weighed heavily on the parent company. A restructuring concept presented by the GHH top under Manfred Lennings , however, met with massive resistance from the main shareholders, including Allianz and Commerzbank . This forced Lennings to resign and named Götte as his successor on the GHH board.
In the period that followed, Götte radically restructured the group and sold numerous holdings that he did not count as part of the core business, including MTU , kabelmetal and the power plants (to Alstom ), elevators ( Thyssen ) and rail vehicles ( AEG ) divisions. In 1985 he operated the merger of GHH and MAN into a single holding company , which has since been called MAN AG; the following year, the company's headquarters were relocated from Oberhausen to Munich.
In 1996 Götte resigned from the management board and moved to the top of the MAN supervisory board (until 2002). He held other mandates a. a. at HypoVereinsbank .
Awards
- Large Federal Cross of Merit
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol. Hc) from the University of Passau
literature
- Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banken, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German Industrial History , Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-406-57762-8 ( Google preview )
- Klaus Götte , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1999 of August 30, 1999, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hit completely . In: Der Spiegel No. 43/1983, pp. 29–31 .
- ↑ Unter Dampf , In: Der Spiegel No. 42/1985, p. 37 f. ; Bähr et al. a., Die MAN, p. 449.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Götte, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bank and industry manager, CEO of Gutehoffnungshütte and MAN AG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diepholz , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2009 |