Norbert Braun (entrepreneur)

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Norbert Braun

Norbert Braun (born November 23, 1950 in Bremen ) is a German entrepreneur.

education

Norbert Braun was born in Bremen in 1950 . After graduating from high school in 1969, he first completed an apprenticeship at Hoechst AG (today Sanofi ) in Frankfurt am Main and then studied business administration in Göttingen (1971 to 1976).

Professional background

From 1976 to 1990 Norbert Braun worked as a product manager, marketing director or managing director in the following companies: Dragoco , Holzminden (today Symrise ); Blendax , Mainz (today Procter & Gamble ); Greiner Porzellangroßhandel, Medard (Glan) (managing partner); Ciba-Geigy AG, Frankfurt / M. (now Novartis )

From 1992 to 2009 he was managing partner ( CEO ) and later chairman of the board of Riemser Arzneimittel AG (today Riemser Pharma GmbH). From 2007, 40% of the shares were sold to the investors General Electric Finance, London and TVM, Munich . From 2009 to 2012 Braun was still the majority shareholder and deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Riemser Arzneimittel AG. Under the joint management of Norbert Braun and his wife Dagmar Braun , Riemser Arzneimittel AG developed into an internationally active and rapidly growing medium-sized pharmaceutical company. In 2012 100% of the shares in Axa Investments , Frankfurt / M. / Paris sold.

From 2005 Norbert and Dagmar Braun invest in the family holdings Braun Beteiligungs GmbH and Braun Hanse Holding GmbH and are their managing directors together with the children and external managers. The companies primarily hold over 20 majority stakes in the pharmaceutical sector (including Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH , Greifswald , under the direction of the children Sebastian Braun and Bianca Juha) as well as in the food industry, food wholesale, mechanical engineering and asset management sectors with over 1000 employees.

Associations and honorary functions

  • City councilor and later parliamentary group chairman in the city of Usingen / Taunus from 1986 to 1998
  • Deputy and financial policy spokesman in the surrounding area Frankfurt am Main 1991–1998
  • Member or supervisory board of various special-purpose associations, municipal utilities, transport companies etc. in the Rhine-Main area 1986–1997
  • Member of the supervisory board of GWH / WVG (Wohnungsgesellschaft) GmbH, Greifswald from 2001–2003
  • Deputy Chairman of BioCon Valley eV, Mecklenburg-Vormommern and member of the Supervisory Board of BioCon Valley GmbH from 2001 to 2009
  • Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Stadtwerke Greifswald GmbH 2003–2014
  • Board member of Sparkasse Vorpommern from 2004 to 2009
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Power Supply Greifswald GmbH 2005–2014
  • Member of the Advisory Board for the Greifswald sewage works 2010–2014
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Wirtschaftsförderung GmbH Vorpommern from 2004 to 2018
  • Advisory board member of Deutsche Bank AG (East) 2005 to 2018
  • Task Force Pharma at the Federal Ministry of Health 2007–2011
  • Health Management Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2009
  • Member of the Greifswald citizenship 2009-2014, deputy parliamentary group leader ( SPD )
  • Economic ambassador for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (appointed by the state) since 2009
  • Advisory Board Service-Bund GmbH & Co. KG , Lübeck (over 1.1 billion euros in external sales) since 2016
  • Supervisory board of Theater Vorpommern 2015–2019
  • Together with Dagmar Braun and the Braun Group (Greifswald), financing and development of the non-profit hospital "Braun" in Cinkanse, Togo

honors and awards

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen