Nikolaus Knauf

Nikolaus Wilhelm Knauf (born April 8, 1936 ) is a partner in Knauf Gips and Honorary Consul of Russia .

Life

Nikolaus Knauf is the eldest son of Alfons Knauf , who together with his brother Karl Knauf founded a plaster works in the Moselle town of Perl in 1932 and later moved it to Iphofen in Lower Franconia . Nikolaus Knauf is married and has three children; one of his daughters is married to Anton Werhahn, who has been CEO of Wilh since 2007 . Werhahn KG .

Entrepreneur

Together with his cousin Baldwin Knauf (born September 23, 1939 ), the eldest son of Karl Knauf, he joined Knauf's management as a personally liable partner. The siblings of the cousins joined the company as limited partners in 1970, which is still family-owned as a global company with a turnover of around 6.0 billion euros and almost 26,000 employees. Nikolaus Knauf mainly devoted himself to the technology department within the company, while his cousin Baldwin was particularly concerned with administrative matters. Under the management of the cousins Nikolaus and Baldwin, the Knauf company expanded from the 1970s, initially mainly to Austria, France and the Benelux countries. After the upheaval in Eastern Europe, the company was able to open up the entire Southeast European market through its Austrian subsidiary, for which Nikolaus and Baldwin Knauf received high Austrian awards. The most extensive expansion was achieved by the cousins from the 1990s in Russia and the CIS countries. The Knauf family had a stake in the airline Eurowings until 2011 . In 2008 he ended his activity as managing director of Knauf. He then moved to the shareholders' committee, where he acts as chairman and deputy chairman with his cousin Baldwin Knauf every year. In 2009 Nikolaus Knauf became a member of the “Corporate Finance Steering Council” in the German Economic Fund .

Local politics

Nikolaus Knauf is a member of the CSU . For the CSU he sits in the municipal council of Markt Einersheim near Iphofen and in the district council of the Kitzingen district .

Sponsor

A large number of cultural and social institutions are supported by Nikolaus Knauf or the Knauf Group. Thus, in Iphofen the Knauf Museum .

Since the opening of the Honorary Consulate of Russia in Nuremberg, Nikolaus Knauf has organized several benefit concerts for the benefit of social projects in the consular district and to support young Russian choirs and orphanages.

Nikolaus Knauf made a contribution to the reconstruction of Orthodox churches. In honor of the Russian poet and diplomat Fyodor Tjutschew , his ancestral church, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was rebuilt in the village of Ovstug in the western Russian region of Bryansk , which was destroyed in the Second World War . In December 2003 a life-size bronze figure of Fyodor Tjutschew , which was created by the well-known Russian sculptor Andrei Kovalchuk, was unveiled in Munich in the presence of the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Sergejewitsch Ivanov .

The Peterhof Palace received by Knauf Group extensive support for the renovation of the facilities. The famous Neptune Fountain , a copy of which can be admired in the Nuremberg city park , was restored and put back into operation in the tsar's residence near St.

Honors

Honorary Citizen of Weißenbach / Liezen (1982)

Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1990)

Honorary Consul Russia based in Nuremberg

Bavarian Order of Merit (1991)

Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2007)

Order of Friendship 2006, presented by Vladimir Putin "for his great contribution to the development and strengthening of the friendship between Russia and Germany"

Nikolaus-Knauf-Strasse in Markt Einersheim is named after it

Honorary Citizen of Markt Einersheim (2006)

since 2007 honorary member of the historical fraternity of Markt Einersheim

literature

Werner Rödiger, Herbert Schumacher, Wilfried Demel: Growing and Becoming. Biography of the Knauf family of entrepreneurs . Iphofen 2003.

Web links

The Knauf family: the hunters of white gold. Manager Magazin , September 28, 2004
Honorary Consulate Russia

Individual evidence

^ Eike Lenz: Baldwin Knauf: Cooler Group Steer , Main Post - Website, September 22, 2009. Accessed April 3, 2016.
↑ CSU members of the Kitzingen district council , last changed on July 15, 2014, accessed on June 11, 2015
↑ ^a ^b The Honorary Consulate. In: Honorary Consulate of the Russian Federation. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
↑ Lothar Schnitzler, Florian Willershausen: Building materials: How the plaster giant Knauf fights against crisis and lawsuits. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Rödiger et al. 2003, p. 167.
↑ Mainpost of May 7, 2006

personal data
SURNAME	Knauf, Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Knauf, Nikolaus Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur, managing partner of Knauf Gips and Honorary Consul of Russia
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1936

[main-1] Eike Lenz: Baldwin Knauf: Cooler Group Steer , Main Post - Website, September 22, 2009. Accessed April 3, 2016.

[2] CSU members of the Kitzingen district council , last changed on July 15, 2014, accessed on June 11, 2015

[Honorarkonsulat-3] The Honorary Consulate. In: Honorary Consulate of the Russian Federation. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .

[4] Lothar Schnitzler, Florian Willershausen: Building materials: How the plaster giant Knauf fights against crisis and lawsuits. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .

[Röd167-5] Rödiger et al. 2003, p. 167.

[6] Mainpost of May 7, 2006