Peter-Alexander Wacker

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Peter-Alexander Wacker (born February 10, 1951 in Tegernsee ) is a German entrepreneur and business graduate . He was CEO from 2005 to 2008 and has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Wacker Chemie AG since May 2008 .

Life

Peter-Alexander Wacker is the great-grandson of Alexander Wacker , who laid the foundation stone for today's chemical company in Nuremberg in 1914 and expanded the group in Munich from 1918 onwards . In 1970 he completed his Abitur and from 1971 studied business administration at the universities of Vienna , Geneva and Munich . In 1973 he received his degree in business administration. In 1980 he received his doctorate in Hannover for Dr. rer. pole. about The Experience Curve in Corporate Planning: Analysis and Empirical Review .

Between 1974 and 1984 he worked in sales and marketing functions for BMW . In 1993 he became a member of the supervisory board of what was then Wacker Chemie GmbH , joined the management of the family company in 1996 and became its spokesman in 2001. When Wacker Chemie GmbH was converted into a stock corporation in November 2005, Peter-Alexander Wacker became Chairman of the Board of Management and in May 2008 moved to the Supervisory Board of Wacker Chemie AG .

In 2006 he was named Family Business Owner of the Year . From 2007 to April 2015 he was a member of the supervisory board of Giesecke & Devrient .

capital

The family of Peter-Alexander Wacker, who was born as Peter-Alexander Hesse, is counted among the wealthiest in Germany. Her assets were estimated at around 4.5 billion euros in 2009 and 3.6 billion euros in 2012, the estimate for 2014 was 2.65 billion euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The experience curve in corporate planning: analysis u. empirical Review, Zugl .: Hannover, Univ., Diss., 1980, series of publications in economic research and development; Vol. 66
  2. ↑ Almost all of them got richer . On merkur-online.de on July 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ Stefan Buchberger The Richest Germans 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On private-banking.trust-wi.de on June 6, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / private-banking.trust-wi.de
  4. ↑ The Schaefflers are the richest Germans . On presseportal.de on September 5, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Wacker, Peter-Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegernsee (city)