Martin Richenhagen
Martin Richenhagen (* 1952 in Cologne ) is a German-American manager. He is Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation and lives in Duluth ( Georgia , USA). He has also been a citizen of the United States since 2011 .
Life
After graduating from the Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Cologne- Mülheim, he studied theology, philosophy and Romance studies at the University of Bonn . After completing his studies, Richenhagen initially worked as a religion teacher at the Frechen high school . After taking office, he decided, on the advice of former BDI President Thumann , to switch to business. He worked at Hille & Müller Stahl in Düsseldorf from 1985 to 1995, from 1995 to 1998 as Senior Executive Vice President of the elevator and escalator manufacturer Schindler Deutschland Holding GmbH , from 1998 to 2002 as Managing Director of Claas KGaA mbH, and from 2003 to 2004 as a member of the Board of Forbo International SA in Switzerland. Since 2004 Richenhagen has been with AGCO , the world's third largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery . On August 20, 2020, Richenhagen announced that he will be retiring at the end of 2020. His successor is to be Eric Hansotia, the group's previous Chief Operating Officer.
Since November 2008 Richenhagen has been Chairman of AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers), the US association of machine manufacturers. In December 2008 Richenhagen was appointed honorary professor for management in agricultural engineering at the TU Dresden . Richenhagen is the only German CEO of a US Fortune 500 company . In 2004, his total salary was $ 1.6 million.
Richenhagen is married and has three children. In addition to German, he also speaks English, French and Italian fluently. In September 2017 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class by Peter Wittig on behalf of the Federal President .
Other, equestrian
At the AGCO subsidiary Fendt , Richenhagen wanted to increase the work target for the production sites in Germany from 35 to 38.5 hours per week without compensation. This project failed due to the resistance of the union IG Metall . The dispute was settled in late 2008 after long negotiations. The US group announced that it would invest around 170 million euros in the Allgäu over the next few years.
Before the US presidential election in November 2012 , he heavily criticized the incumbent Barack Obama and accused him of failure in economic policy.
In March 2018, Richenhagen resigned from his post as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa amid anger over Trump's dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson . In an interview afterwards, he said that he had always thought that Trump's populism was just a scam to win the election . Trump brings the same simple messages in a small circle as in media statements. He is uneducated, a bad listener and he has no idea about economics. Trump surrounds himself “more and more with radicals, nuts and outsiders.” Trump is not an entrepreneur at all. He made his money by ripping other people off.
Richenhagen was active as a dressage rider for a long time and rode dressage tests up to advanced level. In 2008 he was the head of equipe for the German dressage riders at the CHIO Aachen and at the Olympic equestrian competitions in Hong Kong . Until 2014 he was an international dressage judge at 4 * level (the second highest qualification level); At the beginning of 2017 he finally retired from judging.
In November 2017 it was announced that Richenhagen will be the editor of the magazine Reiter Revue International .
In the field of student equestrian sport, he was a founding member of the Academic Equestrian Club (ARC) Bonn and chief organizer of the German University Equestrian Championships in 1978. From 2006 to 2010 he was chairman of the German Academic Equestrian Association . For his services to the German equestrian sport, Richenhagen was awarded the silver equestrian cross.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Academic Rider Association eV: DAR-Online.de . In: dar-online.de . Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. 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 September 27, 2015.
- ↑ Martin Richenhagen in the Notable Names Database (English)
- ↑ Manager abroad: "The Berliner flees - the American says nothing at all" , interview by Susanne Amann, Spiegel online
- ↑ Monday portrait: Martin Richenhagen - The German Boss ( Memento from April 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Jennifer Lachman / ftd .de
- ^ AGCO: AGCO Announces Chairman and CEO Succession. Retrieved August 21, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Construction Equipment Guide
- ^ DAR boss Richenhagen becomes honorary professor at the TU Dresden ( memento from January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), German Academic Riding Association
- ↑ Salary report ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Die Rossnatur in: FAZ of December 17, 2011, page C3
- ↑ Martin Richenhagen awarded the Federal Cross of Merit ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Equestrian Association, September 20, 2017
- ↑ Wolfgang Röhl : [ARCHIVE Martin Richenhagen: Jetter, Schlepper, Bauernfänger] . In: Stern . Star. November 25, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved on September 27, 2015.
- ↑ top agrar online
- ↑ Bavarian State Ministry for Economics, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Invest in Bavaria section ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Germans and the US election 2012: How a German US boss insults Obama ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ manager-magazin.de March 22, 2018: German CEO leaves Trump's advisory board
- ↑ Die Zeit 14/2018: "He surrounds himself with nuts"
- ↑ Martin Richenhagen is no longer a Grand Prix judge , Reiter Revue International, January 25, 2017
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Martin Richenhagen becomes editor of Reiter Revue International , www.reiterrevue.de November 17, 2017
- ^ Equestrian cross in silver for Martin Richenhagen ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 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.
- ^ Martin Richenhagen in the FEI's personal database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richenhagen, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |