Norbert Winkeljohann

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Norbert Winkeljohann (* 1957 in Osnabrück ) is a German auditor and tax advisor and was spokesman for the management of PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG until June 30, 2018 .

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Winkeljohann studied business administration and economics at the University of Münster from 1978 to 1983 and then worked as a business graduate until 1986 as a research assistant at the chair for tax and auditing under Dieter Schneeloch at the Fernuniversität Hagen , where he received his doctorate in economics in 1986. Winkeljohann started his professional career as an audit assistant for an international auditing company in Düsseldorf, for which he later worked as a manager in the International Tax department in Düsseldorf and London. He passed the tax advisor examination in 1988 and the auditor examination in 1991.

From 1994 to 1998 Winkeljohann was co-owner of the Societäts-Treuhand Group in Hanover. In 1998 Winkeljohann was appointed partner of today's PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG and one year later he was appointed to the board. Since 2003 he has been head of the SME and Family Business Division, initially for Germany and later also for Europe. In 2010 Winkeljohann was elected spokesman for the board by the partners; By changing the legal form, he became management spokesman in 2016. In 2012, he also took over as CEO of PwC Europe SE, which he initiated. In the global network of PricewaterhouseCoopers International (global), an organization with 236,000 employees in 158 countries, Winkeljohann had been a member of the five-person management committee since 2010.

Winkeljohann belonged to various committees and working groups of the auditors and was regularly invited to hearings of the finance committee of the German Bundestag . He chairs the Federal Expert Commission for Growth and Innovation of the Economic Council of the CDU and is a member of numerous specialist committees, e.g. B. the IDW , the DRSC and the VMEBF.

Winkeljohann has been teaching law and economics at the University of Osnabrück since 1994 , where he was appointed honorary professor for international corporate taxation in 2001. In 2017 he became honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He is (co-) editor of a number of standard works, such as B. Beck's balance sheet commentary, and has published numerous articles and specialist articles in the field of international accounting and taxes.

In connection with the Wulff affair in 2012 was in several key media reports on a "friendly service" by Norbert Winkeljohann, by Christian Wulff, the former wife of Christian Wulff to work, after her divorce since 2008 for PwC. The Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office examined the matter as part of its special responsibility for corruption criminal matters. The company stated that "Christiane Wulff's employment had no connection with PwC's business relationships with the state government". Investigations against PwC were ultimately not initiated.

In 2018 he was elected chairman of the supervisory board of Sievert and heristo and a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank . In April 2020 he was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG , to which he had been a member since 2018. He is also a member of the World Vision Presidium .

Since 1979 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Winfridia (Breslau) Münster .

Fonts (selection)

  • Cross-border use of losses in the community area , in: BFuP 3/2011.
  • Family-owned business: The secrets of the entrepreneurial dynasties' success , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
  • with Frank Reuther (ed.): Future of accounting law in family businesses , Erich Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • with Sven Fuhrmann: Handbook of Transformation Tax Law , IDW-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007.
  • with Ansgar Wohlschlegel and Axel Dorenkamp: Restructuring of corporate bonds through the German Debt Securities Act, in: WPg 58 (10), 2005.
  • Usufruct in private and commercial property , Hagener Betriebswirtschaftliche Abhandlungen, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1987, Zugl .: Hagen, Fernuniv., Diss., 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PricewaterhouseCoopers: About us . In: PwC . ( pwc.com [accessed June 13, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Association for Participation in the Development of Accounting Law for Family Companies (VEMBF)
  3. ↑ Jörg Eigendorf, Per Hinrichs and Uwe Müller: Everything just a sham? The auditing company PwC helped the ex-wife of the resigned Federal President Christian Wulff to a job in a strange way. Now the prosecutor is interested in: Welt am Sonntag , March 4, 2012
  4. ↑ “Investigators check employment of Wulff's former wife” , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 2012 and Karl Doeleke: “Justice has Wulff's ex-wife in its sights” , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 6, 2012
  5. ↑ “Strange occupation: Investigators examine employment of Wulff's ex-wife” , in: Spiegel Online , March 4, 2012
  6. ^ "State Prosecutor: No Investigations Against PwC" , in: Die Welt Kompakt , April 3, 2012
  7. ^ Supervisory Board - Deutsche Bank. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Bayer AG: The Supervisory Board of Bayer AG. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkeljohann, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German auditor and tax advisor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück