Meike Schlecker

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Meike Schlecker (born October 15, 1973 ) is a German entrepreneur . She was in her father Anton Schlecker based drugstore -Unternehmen Schlecker operates.

Life

On December 23, 1987, Meike and Lars , Christa and Anton Schlecker's children, were kidnapped by Herbert Franz Jacoby , Wilhelm Hudelmaier and Dieter Hudelmaier in front of the family villa in Ehingen, Baden-Württemberg . The next day they were released after paying a ransom of 9.6 million DM . The three kidnappers were sentenced to long terms in 1999.

Schlecker completed her Abitur at the evangelical boarding school Urspringschule in Schelklingen and studied business administration at the IESE Business School in Barcelona until 2003 .

She has been working in her parents' company since around 2000, including in the management. In November 2010, she went public with her brother Lars Schlecker and announced that they would be jointly responsible for corporate communications in the future.

On January 30, 2012, Meike Schlecker appeared in front of the press on behalf of the family to announce the bankruptcy of the drugstore chain and the end of the family's wealth. It was the first public appearance by a member of the founding family in 20 years of company history. Due to the conclusion of the insolvency proceedings, Meike Schlecker cannot hold a responsible position in the former German Schlecker company and has forfeited legal powers, as these were transferred to the insolvency administrator Arndt Geiwitz when the bankruptcy proceedings were opened.

Together with her brother, Meike Schlecker was also a partner in the subsequently insolvent companies LDG Logistik- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft mbH and BDG Bau- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft mbH.

Imprisonment

On April 13, 2016, the Stuttgart public prosecutor brought charges against Meike Schlecker, together with her parents and her brother, for aiding and abetting intentional bankruptcy , delaying bankruptcy and breach of trust , as they are said to have stashed millions of euros before the 2012 bankruptcy was announced. On November 27, 2017, the Stuttgart Regional Court sentenced her to two years and eight months ' imprisonment. The next day she put revision against the judgment. On April 25, 2019, the appeal was dismissed by the Federal Court of Justice and Meike Schlecker was finally sentenced to a prison term of two years and seven months. After voluntarily returning to Germany from her London residence and being imprisoned in the same way, Meike Schlecker was transferred to the Reinickendorf prison at the end of July 2019. Under certain conditions, this prison enables prisoners to have an open prison , which they could switch to after a week.

Personal

Meike Schlecker was married to the London investment banker Timothy Cook, they separated in 2008. Meike Schlecker is the mother of two children and has been a single parent ever since.

literature

  • Roland May : The Schlecker kidnappers. In: Helfried Spitra (ed.): The great criminal cases 2. Piper Verlag, Munich 2005, pp. 164–179.
  • Steffen Klusmann (Ed.): Daughters of the German economy: female family offspring for the executive floor. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89879-407-7 .
  • Gaynor Perry, Meike Schlecker, Eric Weber Week : Schlecker Home Shopping. (Case study, English / Spanish), IESE Publishing, Barcelona 2001 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulm District Court HRB 490445, entry dated December 29, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ehinger stories. In: Manager Magazin , March 25, 2008, accessed November 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ Cf. the case study Schlecker Contemplates Online Drugstore from 2001, created by her and others at IESE , in IESE insight ( Memento from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Karen Emler: Karen Emler: Schlecker children should polish up the company image ( Memento from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse , November 20, 2010; see. also Miriam Schröder: Nice heirs without power , in: Handelsblatt online edition, January 20, 2012
  5. ↑ Susanne Frank, Jochen Schuster: Children to power. In: Focus , February 6, 2012.
  6. ↑ Schlecker children file for bankruptcy. ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Deutschland , June 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ Massimo Bognanni: Charges against Anton Schlecker: How the drugstore king moved assets. Spiegel Online . April 13, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ Press release Regional Court Stuttgart
  9. ↑ Schlecker children appeal against prison sentences. In: merkur.de . November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  10. ^ The Federal Court of Justice - press: press releases - judgment also against the children of the founder of the insolvent drugstore chain Sch. legally binding. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Hirn, Sören Jensen: Youth consecration at Schlecker. In: Manager Magazin , January 18, 2011.
  12. ↑ Eva Steindorfer: Schlecker: From the butcher to the slaughtered. ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wirtschaftsblatt , March 9, 2012.
  13. ↑ Daniela Hung Baur: Meike Schlecker: The new face of the drugstore chain. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , March 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schlecker, Meike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 15th October 1973