Otto Gellert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Otto Gellert (born June 23, 1929 in Hamburg ; † October 7, 2014 ) was a German auditor , tax and management consultant .

Life

After graduating from high school and completing a banking apprenticeship, Gellert, born the son of a technician, studied business administration and received his doctorate. In 1960 he started his own business as an auditor. In his first major mandate in 1962, he saved the industrialist Willy Schlieker from bankruptcy and in 1966 achieved a compulsory settlement. In the following years he was involved as a consultant in more than 350 acquisitions, sales, redevelopments and liquidations. Among other things, he accompanied the restructuring of Pelikan AG and the logistics group Kuehne + Nagel , was an economic advisor in disputes within the Herz family and represented the Warburg banking family . In 1988 he brokered 42,000 apartments from the bankrupt housing company Neue Heimat to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.

Public offices

In 1989, in the course of the negotiations on the merger of Daimler-Benz and MBB , as negotiator appointed by the mayor of Hamburg at the time , Henning Voscherau , Gellert played a key role in maintaining Airbus production in Hamburg . Voscherau later said of this commitment: "Without him, aircraft construction in Hamburg would be closed today." During its existence, he was deputy chairman of the board of directors of the Treuhandanstalt . He was also deputy chairman of the board of directors until the end of operational activities in the successor organization of the Treuhandanstalt, the federal agency for special tasks related to unification .

Awards

Since 1998 he has been a holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit . In 1999 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the honorary title of professor for his services to the Hanseatic city.

Others

Gellert was the owner of the Hulbe house .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. October 18, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Merger in November at the earliest. In: Der Spiegel. October 16, 1989, accessed January 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Steffen Klusmann (Hrsg.): 101 Warriors of the German economy: heads, careers and concepts . FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2006, p. 252
  4. ↑ The advisor in the background - Otto Gellert becomes a professor. In: The world. October 5, 1999, accessed January 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gellert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German auditor, tax and management consultant
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2014