Michael Gotthelf

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Michael A. Gotthelf at the 2018 Börne Prize in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

Michael Alfred Gotthelf (* 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German entrepreneur and publicist. He was one of the initiators of the Ludwig Börne Prize for Literature and the founder of the Walther Rathenau Institute , a foundation for international politics that awards the Walther Rathenau Prize.

Life

Michael A. Gotthelf was born the son of a Berlin Jew and a Bavarian Catholic.

In 1972 Gotthelf completed his Abitur at the Goethe Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main) . He then began studying sociology, political science and business and economics at Stanford University California and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt . There he obtained his doctorate in 1979. rer. pole. in economics. As an economist, he took part in the edition suhrkamp “The future of capitalism” with the contribution “What are you all staring at 1929 ?!”.

He began his professional career as an editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in Frankfurt. Michael A. Gotthelf then worked as a bank manager. At the beginning of the 1990s he headed Metallbank, a subsidiary of Metallgesellschaft . In 1995 he founded the later Hypovereinsbank (Switzerland) for the Munich parent company , which focused on business with institutional customers and took over its management as managing director and - renamed AP Anlage & Privatbank AG after a management buy-out in 1999 - he acted as president of the Board of Directors until the bank is acquired by the Latvian Parex Bank.

Michael A. Gotthelf was Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in Frankfurt for two years from 1992 . From 2000 to 2004 he was the German honorary consul in Zurich. He then moved to London. Gotthelf has also been an adviser to international institutions for a number of years; He advised the President of Madagascar on a pro bono basis.

Gotthelf occasionally publishes as a guest author and columnist in the FAZ and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Foundations

Michael Gotthelf and Hillary Clinton at the presentation of the Rathenaupreis in 2011

As chairman of the Ludwig Börne Foundation, based in Frankfurt am Main, Gotthelf was one of the initiators of the Ludwig Börne Prize , a literary prize for essays, criticism and reports, founded in 1993 .

At the beginning of 2008 he founded the Walther Rathenau Institute, a foundation for international politics based in Berlin, where he is chairman of the advisory board. The institute promotes political education in the spirit of foreign policy maker Walther Rathenau and awards the Walter Rathenau Prize every year. The award stands for human rights and tolerance.

Together with Günther Nonnenmacher (FAZ co-editor), Mathias Döpfner (CEO of Axel Springer SE ) and Martin Meyer (feature editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung) Gotthelf founded the Frank Schirrmacher Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to maintain and pass on the work and values ​​of the FAZ co-editor Frank Schirrmacher, who died in June 2014 . The foundation annually awards the Frank Schirrmacher Prize for “outstanding achievements in understanding our current affairs”.

Awards

controversy

In March 2010, he and other entrepreneurs accompanied the Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on his business trip to South America. There was criticism of the composition of the tour group. a. because Gotthelf is close to the FDP .

Web links

Commons : Michael A. Gotthelf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Portrait of Michael A. Gotthelf in the FAZ from December 15, 2008 .
  2. ^ The story of Alfred G. [1] FAZ No. 177 of August 2, 2001, p. 44
  3. ↑ http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/kapitalismus/zukunft-des-kapitalismus-11-was-starrt-ihr-alle-auf-1929-1829721.html
  4. ↑ a b http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/die_zukunft_des_kapitalismus-_12603.html .
  5. ↑ a b http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/16/business/worldbusiness/16iht-nobo_1.html .
  6. ↑ http://www.schweizer-banken.info/de/bank/zh/zuerich/ap-anlage-privatbank.htm .
  7. ↑ https://www.endunginternet.com/files/AI/opendownloads/FAZ-F1511201011.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/silicon-valley-traeumt-von-der-apokalypse-wo-bitte-ist-der-notgabe-ld.149401
  9. ↑ http://www.ausgezeich-literaturpreise.de/Resources/Aus2010.pdf .
  10. ↑ A prize in memory of Frank Schirrmacher . THE WORLD. October 10, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  11. ↑ Cross of Merit for Michael Gotthelf .
  12. ↑ Guido Westerwelle and the travel companions . The daily mirror. March 12, 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gotthelf, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gotthelf, Michael Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, banker and founder of a literary award
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main