Klaus Murmann

Klaus Murmann (born January 3, 1932 in Dortmund ; † October 13, 2014 in Kiel ) was a German entrepreneur and from 1986 to 1996 President of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA) . He was also the largest investor in the Klaus Murmann study funding scheme of the German Business Foundation and the founder and name giver of the Murmann School of Global Management and Economics, which was founded in a public-private partnership .

Life

Murmann lived in Kiel since 1953 . His father worked there as a partner at JP Sauer & Sohn and as a manufacturer of ship compressors . He studied law at the University of Bonn and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , but also during a stay in the United States with a scholarship from the Fulbright program at the Harvard Law School and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania . He passed his first state examination in law at the University of Kiel. From 1956 to 1959 he was a trainee lawyer at courts and authorities in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1959 he passed his second state examination in law at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court. In 1957 he was at the University of Kiel with a thesis comparing the European Coal and Steel American US with the Interstate Commerce Commission to doctor of law doctorate.

Klaus Murmann was married to the physician Hannelore Murmann since 1959. The couple has five children. The daughter Ulrike (* 1961), a Protestant theologian with a doctorate , has been the main pastor and provost in Hamburg since 2004 . His youngest son is the publisher Sven Murmann (* 1967). His brother Dieter Murmann and his nephew Philipp Murmann are also entrepreneurs and CDU politicians.

Entrepreneurial activity

From 1959 Murmann was managing director at JP Sauer & Sohn . In 1969 he took over a US license for the manufacture of hydrostatic transmissions from his father and began to set up Sauer Getriebe KG in Neumünster . The company was converted into a stock corporation in 1982 and developed into the market leader for hydrostatic transmissions in Europe. In 1987 Sauer Getriebe KG was merged with the branch of the Sundstrand Group . In the course of the following years, the Sauer-Sundstrand Group was bought back by the German shareholders and combined in a holding company in which Murmann and his family hold a majority stake. Murmann himself was chairman of the board.

After the group of companies merged with the Danish company Danfoss in 2000 , he acted as Director and Chairman of the newly created company Sauer-Danfoss until 2008 (since 2004 “Chairman Emeritus”).

General and association political work

In Kiel Murmann held a seat on the city council for the CDU from 1957 to 1967 . From 1975 he was chairman of the Rendsburg / Neumünster employers' association. Also in 1975 he became chairman of the state representation of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Schleswig-Holstein and chairman of the association of Schleswig-Holstein business associations. Since 1976 he has been a member of the executive committee of the Federation of German Employers' Associations.

In 1985 he was nominated to succeed Otto Esser as President of the Federation of German Employers' Associations (BDA). He assumed the post of Vice President shortly after the nomination and was elected President in 1986. After his replacement by Dieter Hundt in 1996, he was awarded the title of Honorary President. From 1992 to 1996 he was also Vice-President of the Union of European Industry and Employers' Associations (UNICE).

Murmann School of Global Management and Economics

The Murmann School seen from the Hindenburgufer

The Murmann School was a joint initiative of the entrepreneur Klaus Murmann, the Institute for World Economy in Kiel and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. The concept was supported by the state government of Schleswig-Holstein.

The Murmann School of Global Management and Economics, founded in October 2006, was supposed to start teaching in the late summer of 2007 and, according to its own statements, wanted to deal with teaching and research in the global economy.

The proposed closure was announced on September 30, 2008. The reasons given were low market opportunities for the course due to similar offers from renowned universities and difficulties in filling professorships.

Sailing

Klaus Murmann was actively involved in sailing for many years. As a member of the Kiel Yacht Club (KYC), he was involved with several regatta yachts, all of which were called UCA , in major international sailing regattas . His maxi yacht UCA successfully took part in the Transatlantic Regatta DaimlerChrysler North Atlantic Challenge (DCNAC) in 2003 . With the UCA he has held the sailing record for the Skagen Rund regatta since 2000 . In 2005 the new UCA set the sailing record for the Mallorca Rund route .

honors and awards

• 1982: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1992: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1997: Shoulder ribbon to the Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
• 2007: Honorary Professor of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
• 2007: Andreas Gayk Medal for his extraordinary services to the city of Kiel
• 2010: Honorary Chairman of the German Business Foundation
• 2011: Honorary Citizen of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Murmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus H. Murmann: Chairman Emeritus - Sauer-Danfoss Inc
• Vita Klaus Murmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Murmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Klaus Murmann died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 13, 2014 (accessed October 13, 2014).
3. ↑ On the death of Prof. Dr. Klaus Murmann. Foundation of German Business, accessed on October 14, 2014 . 
4. ^ Sauer − Danfoss
5. ^ Institute for the World Economy. Retrieved March 6, 2018 . 
6. ^ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | Home page. Accessed March 6, 2018 (German). 
7. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Ministry of Science ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ murmann-school.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2011 ; accessed on March 6, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ University of Kiel ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ University of Leipzig
11. ↑ ^{a b} Vita Klaus Murmann ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Holders of the Andreas Gayk Medal . In: kiel.de . City of Kiel. Archived from the original on June 17, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2014. 
13. ↑ Claudia Eulitz: Kiel University awards honorary citizenship to Klaus Murmann , press release of the University of Kiel in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft dated March 11, 2011, accessed on March 14, 2011