Michael Bohndorf

Michael Bohndorf is a German lawyer who became known through disputes with Deutsche Bank and the retirement home operator Refugium .

Act

At the beginning of his legal activity, Bohndorf published in the English specialist press on German family law and, in addition to his legal work, also worked as a landlord. He has lived in Ibiza since 1991 . According to ZDF magazine Frontal21 , Bohndorf spends his old age in the Brazilian seaside resort of Salvador .

In 2001 Bohndorf appeared on behalf of an uncle living abroad and challenged Refugium AG's capital increase resolutions. This made it possible for Marseille-Kliniken AG to take over the ailing competitor. It was suspected that Bohndorf appeared as a front man for Ulrich Marseille .

Michael Bohndorf has been a member of Deutsche Bank's annual general meetings since 2003 and has since then regularly filed actions to challenge the resolutions of the annual general meetings. Deutsche Bank has had Bohndorf monitored since 2006. Among other things, Bohndorf's house on Ibiza is said to have been rented during Bohndorf's absence. According to Bohndorf, a Brazilian woman is said to have been assigned to him in one case to listen to him. In 2009, the Deutsche Bank admitted investigations, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and the responsible public prosecutor started investigations. The background to the spying was the assumption that Bohndorf and Leo Kirch were jointly taking action against the bank's board of directors. In July 2009, several Deutsche Bank executives were fired because of the spying. In October 2009, the public prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation into the spying affair. The proceedings were discontinued in March 2012.

Web links

• handelsblatt.com of January 29, 2001: Refugium: Noise is inevitable at the Annual General Meeting
• general-anzeiger-bonn.de of January 31, 2001 “One of the most vehement critics of Küthe's business plans is the Hamburg attorney Michael Bohndorf. Among other things, he accused the Refugium board of directors of having based the capital increase on false reports. Bohndorf spoke of a “perversion of the ownership structure”. He had filed a criminal complaint with the Bonn public prosecutor's office against the Refugium board, whom he accused of criminal behavior. The spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, Bernd König, confirmed the receipt of the complaint to the GA on Wednesday. "

• manager-magazin.de of June 13, 2001: Stage victory - The Bonn regional court orders a new balance sheet audit, and Gold-Zack boss Dietrich Walther is increasingly being criticized.
• welt.de: Insolvency proceedings against Refugium AG opened “The difficulties at Refugium became greater after two small shareholders, including one Michael Bohndorf, blocked a capital measure decided at the beginning of 2001 by means of actions for rescission. This gave Marseille boss Ulrich Marseille time to talk to Refugium boss Klaus Küthe. Meanwhile, rumors say that Marseille is making common cause with Bohndorf. He is being charged with extortion. Bohndorf denies having demanded 2.8 million DM for the waiver of an action for rescission from Refugium. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Jahn, long-term plaintiff Bohndorf - bogeyman number two , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 4, 2009.
2. ↑ Michael Haselrieder, Alone Against Deutsche Bank ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2015 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. , Frontal21 from May 5, 2015, accessed on May 6, 2015 
3. ↑ Beat Balzli: Greetings to Madame E. In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2001, p. 113 ( Online - June 11, 2001 ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Sonia Shinde, Michael Bohndorf: Uncomfortable and controversial Handelsblatt from July 13, 2009.
5. ↑ David Crawford / Matthew Karnitschnig, Spying Affair at Dt. The bank threatens to expand  ( 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. , Focus from August 3, 2009.  
6. ↑ The Detective's Long List , Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 4, 2008.
7. ↑ Markus Frühauf, Deutsche Bank parts with executives , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 19, 2009.
8. ↑ Deutsche Bank Spy Case Rises to New Level , The Wallstreet Journal online, October 9, 2009.
9. ↑ Investigations into spy affair stopped , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 26, 2012, No. 73, p. 17