Konrad Hummler

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Konrad Hummler (born March 13, 1953 in St. Gallen ; resident in St. Gallen and Thun ) is a Swiss entrepreneur , journalist and former private banker . He was a managing partner of the private bank Wegelin & Co.

Live and act

childhood and education

Hummler was the son of the former FDP - National and St. Galler city Ammann Alfred Hummler born. He grew up in St. Gallen, where he graduated from high school . He studied at the University of Zurich Law and at the Rochester University economics . In addition to his studies, he was editor-in-chief of the Swiss University Newspaper and headed the St. Gallen Management Symposium for two years . He did his doctorate at the University of Zurich under Peter Forstmoser on the topic of automated legal application and legal documentation .

Banking activity

From 1981 to 1989 he worked for Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft (today's UBS ), first in the financial analysis department, and later as personal assistant to the then Chairman of the Board of Directors Robert Holzach . In 1989 Hummler switched to Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers, where he has been a managing partner with unlimited liability since 1991.

At the end of 2004, Hummler resigned from the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association in protest “against the lack of a culture of debate” regarding the bilateral agreements . In 2004 he became a member of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank . In 2008 he was elected President of the Association of Swiss Private Bankers . With a view to taking over the chairmanship of the board of directors of the NZZ Group, he left these mandates in April 2011.

Under his leadership, the bank grew from 25 to around 700 employees (2011). After the US tax authorities exerted great pressure on the bank and threatened with charges of inciting serious tax evasion, the majority of the private customer business was sold to Raiffeisen Switzerland .

further activities

In addition to his banking activities, Konrad Hummler is a member of the board of directors of several companies and institutions such as Bühler Holding AG . From 2002 he was a member of the board of directors of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and from April 9, 2011 he chaired the board of directors. On February 9, 2012, he suspended his activities as President to concentrate on legal disputes in the Wegelin tax dispute with the USA . For the time being, he remained a member of the Board of Directors. In March 2013 he announced that he would be stepping down from the general assembly of the NZZ media group on April 13, 2013. The reasons he gave was that he would like to ensure his journalistic independence in pursuing his own plans and that as a simple member of the board of directors he would not have enough influence in dealing with the upcoming strategic decisions.

Hummler was head of the St.Gallen-Appenzell Chamber of Commerce and Industry until 2011 . He is involved or engaged in foundations for the benefit of culture and society, such as the Zoo Zurich Foundation, the Diagnose Krebs Foundation for people with cancer (until 2011) and the JS Bach Foundation , which he co-founded and of which he is President is.

Hummler is a member of the FDP , but often takes different - radical liberal - positions than his party. He was a supporter of EEA accession and an opponent of EU and Schengen accession. He calls for parallel imports and free trade agreements .

He defended the fact that tax evasion funds are administered in Switzerland as legitimate. In the affair about the purchase of the stolen data of German customers offered to the German countries from Swiss financial institutions in early 2010, he also consistently said: “I will never be prepared to check the status of a taxpayer. Otherwise I'll quit the job. "

His journalistic activity is diverse. He was the constant author of the Wegelin investment commentary , which appeared every two months until the end of 2011, had a circulation of 100,000 and was also available as a podcast on iTunes . In addition, he was and is a sought-after columnist for various magazines and newspapers. He is the author of the bimonthly, now discontinued publication “bergsicht”. In 1998, Hummler established the Liber'all Foundation as a common roof over the grassroots organizations that he controls, Trumpf Buur , Medien-Forum and Liberale Aktion . He is president of the civil society association. And he is a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society . Konrad Hummler is married, has four daughters and lives in Teufen AR . He held the rank of colonel on the general staff in the Swiss army . Hummler is a member of the Switzerland section of the Clausewitz Society . He is also a member of the board of trustees of forum thomanum Leipzig eV

In 2014 he was awarded the Myshkin Prize , co-initiated by Peter Sloterdijk, together with Noam Chomsky and Jetsun Pema, the sister of the Dalai Lama . The laudation was given by Frank A. Meyer , who had criticized Hummler in numerous texts in the past.

Works

  • Trial, error, interpretation - investment comments 1990 to 2010. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-280-05424-6 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Connections from Hummler Konrad. In: Moneyhouse. Retrieved September 28, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Konrad Hummler in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 23, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Konrad Hummler. (PDF; 54 kB) In: Progress Foundation. Archived from the original on January 15, 2017 ; Retrieved May 16, 2009 .
  4. ↑ SNB Bank Council: Konrad Hummler will resign at the end of April 2011. Press release of the Swiss National Bank of December 17, 2010 (PDF; 56 kB)
  5. ↑ Konrad Hummler / Franz Jaeger (eds.): City State - Utopia or Realistic Model? Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-708-2 . P. 237.
  6. ↑ Thomas Schürpf (tsf.) / Marco Metzler (mtz.): Wegelin breaks up in the tax dispute. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Online January 27, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ Hummler suspends NZZ presidential mandate. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Online, February 9, 2012.
  8. ↑ Three resignations from the board of directors - Hummler also resigns. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . March 7, 2013
  9. ↑ a b Konrad Hummler. ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: infocube.ch, accessed on March 9, 2013.
  10. ↑ Constantin Seibt : The banker anarchist. In: The weekly newspaper . May 7, 2005. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Do we want to criminalize money that was hidden from the Nazis?" In: Sunday newspaper . February 7, 2010 (interview), quoted u. a. in: «Otherwise I'll give up the job». In: Tages-Anzeiger. February 7, 2010, "Bern has lost its head." In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Online, February 7, 2010.
  12. ↑ Werner Grundlehner: He beats them all. 20 Minuten Online, October 18, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  13. ↑ Facts & Figures. ( Memento of August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) From the investment commentary website, accessed on September 30, 2011.
  14. ↑ Konrad Hummler: We have a problem. In: SonntagsZeitung from January 5, 2014.
  15. ↑ Liber'all Charitable Foundation to promote a liberal, liberal thought. In: Moneyhouse. Retrieved February 19, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Board of Directors. ( Memento of January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  17. ↑ Peter Forster: The Security Policy Report 2010 of the Swiss Federal Council to the Federal Assembly. A look at the army and military policy in Switzerland . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2010 . Volume 6, Hamburg 2009 (?), ISBN 978-3-9810794-5-6 , p. 293 f.
  18. ↑ Trustees , forum-thomanum.de, accessed on 14 November 2016th
  19. ↑ port01.com
personal data
SURNAME Hummler, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss private banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen