Klaus Mangold
Klaus Jürgen Mangold (born June 6, 1943 in Pforzheim ) is a German manager .
Life
Mangold studied law and economics in Geneva, London, Heidelberg and Munich. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Suevo-Guestphalia Munich in the WSC . After receiving his doctorate in law in 1973, he worked in various trade associations and companies, including the German-Mexican Chamber of Commerce , Thyssen and the Association of the German Textile and Fashion Industry . In 1985 he became CEO of Rhodia AG , a company of the French chemical group Rhône-Poulenc , and in 1991 CEO of Quelle Schickedanz AG & Co.
In 1995 he became a member of the board of the then Daimler-Benz AG and chairman of the board of the subsidiary Debis .
Mangold was involved early on in the introduction of a truck toll system in Germany that would also include telematics functions - an important business area of debis. When the toll consortium Toll Collect was founded in 2002, he became its head of the supervisory board. After the technical problems and delays in setting up the toll system got bigger and bigger, Mangold and Michael Rummel , the managing director of Toll Collect, came under increasing pressure from public criticism. In December 2003, Klaus Mangold was replaced as Chairman of the Toll Collect Supervisory Board by Peter Mihatsch . In the same year, his contracts as a member of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler and as Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler Services AG expired (when he turned 60) . He left the group, but became a consultant in matters of Eastern Europe for the CEO Jürgen E. Schrempp . Mangold's successor as CEO of DaimlerChrysler Services was Bodo Uebber .
From 2011 to 2019, Mangold was Chairman of the TUI Supervisory Board .
Klaus Mangold has close ties to Russia. He was involved in Rosatom's deal for the construction of the 2nd block of the Paks nuclear power plant and is considered the mysterious German behind Viktor Orbán's Russian business .
EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger (CDU) had to explain himself in 2016 because he used Klaus Mangold's private jet for a trip to a meeting with Viktor Orbán in Budapest. Mangold invited the EU Commissioner to do so. Oettinger said the Hungarian government suggested that he fly to the meeting with Mangold because there was no budget for the trip.
In November 2017 it became known from the publication of the Panama Papers that Mangold was economically intertwined with the Russian oligarch Boris Abramowitsch Berezovsky . In 2003 and 2010, Mangold received money from a company on the Isle of Man which, according to tagesschau.de, belonged to Berezovsky. The company acquired a private jet and sold it again a few years later. The plane deals over the Isle of Man were examined more closely in the course of the " Paradise Papers ". With a business trick, the import sales tax in the EU was often bypassed. However, the data do not provide any information as to whether this was the case with Berezovsky's company. Mangold explained that he was “unable to remember” that he was a beneficiary of the company.
Other offices, honors and awards
From 2000 to 2010 Mangold was chairman of the Eastern Committee of the German Economy , an organization that aims to promote exports by German companies to Eastern European countries. He is also a member of the steering committee of the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue .
In January 2004 Mangold became Co-Chairman of the German branch of the investment bank Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main.
He is also currently active in the Committee for Rare Earths at the Federation of German Industries .
In 2000 he received the Great Silver Decoration with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria . In February 2004 he was awarded the Order of Commander of the Legion of Honor by the French state . On 8 May 2004, he was Prime Minister Erwin Teufel , the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg awarded. In 2005 Mangold became Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Baden-Württemberg. In 2007 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In 2012, Mangold was awarded the Prize for Understanding and Tolerance by the support group of the Jewish Museum Berlin .
The Landgasthof Schenkenberger Hof , which Klaus Mangold acquired and expanded in 2013, is located next to the Schenkenberger Chapel “Maria Sacrifice” near Emmingen-Liptingen in the Tuttlingen district . Mangold has a hunting lodge in the area and his forest company owns part of the surrounding forest, which is why the inn is also used as a base for forest workers.
Web links
- Jürgen Roth : A destroyed life . In: Context: weekly newspaper . May 29, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex-Daimler boss Zetsche leads the supervisory board at Tui. Handelsblatt , May 23, 2019, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Georg Meck: Russian understanding Klaus Mangold: Mister Russia of the German economy . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 7, 2016 ( faz.net ).
- ^ Eva S. Balogh: The men behind Paks II: Günther Oettinger and Klaus Mangold. In: hungarianspectrum.org. November 18, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 .
- ^ András Szabó: The Mysterious German Behind Viktor Orban's Russian Deals. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ EU official under fire over private jet . In: BBC News . November 16, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: "Paradise Papers" - The Germans in the leak. Retrieved on November 19, 2017 (German).
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ^ "Popular excursion destination on the Schenkenberg is being renovated" , Südkurier , accessed on June 18, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mangold, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mangold, Klaus Jürgen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pforzheim |