Peter Möhrle

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Jens Peter Möhrle (born April 23, 1932 in Hamburg ; † March 16, 2020 ) was a German entrepreneur , was the owner of the Max Bahr DIY chain from 1956 to 2007 and President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1987 to 1990 .

education and profession

Peter Möhrle was the son of the Hamburg auditor Ernst Möhrle, who founded an auditing and tax consulting company in the Hanseatic city in 1928, which today operates as Möhrle Happ Luther with 300 employees in Hamburg, Berlin and Schwerin.

After training as a timber merchant, Peter Möhrle took over the majority stake in the Hamburg timber trading company Max Bahr, founded in 1879 as a wheelwright, at the age of just 24 for DM 20,000, which at that time was a three-man business. Taking advantage of the do-it-yourself boom , he opened his first branch in Hamburg-Rissen in 1964 . He developed the company into the "market leader in DIY and professional supplies" with over 3500 employees. In 1996 he moved to the company's advisory board as chairman and left management to his youngest son Dirk. After he had expanded the company to 78 branches and 4,370 employees and restructured the company into an operating and holding company, he left the management again in 2004. In the same year, Peter Möhrle gave up his own seat on the advisory board in favor of his eldest son Kai. In 2007 Möhrle finally came to the conclusion that the Max Bahr company could not hold its own against the competition of the Obi Group and sold the operating company to Praktiker AG and the real estate to the British investment fund Moor Park.

In December 2007, Möhrle contributed the proceeds from the sale to the Peter Möhrle Foundation and the Peter Möhrle Holding. Since then, Möhrle has been active in the areas of corporate investments and real estate investments through his holding company. So was u. a. Acquired the villa on the Elbe in Heine Park in the Hamburg district of Ottensen and in 2010 the listed building ensemble with hotel and restaurant on Hamburg's Süllberg . The restaurant is now leased to Karlheinz Hauser . On July 31, 2015 Möhrle took over the family company SCS (Stahlschmidt Cable Systems) from Bad Berleburg .

Peter Möhrle was married and had two sons and a daughter.

Voluntary work, patronage and honors

From 1987 to 1990 Möhrle was President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . As early as 1994 he founded the Peter Möhrle Foundation for Monument Preservation , which since then has enabled and supported numerous projects for the care and restoration of historically significant buildings worthy of monument protection. With his Peter Möhrle Foundation, founded in 2007, he financed a. a. the two million euro organ in the Elbphilharmonie . He was a member of the board of trustees of the Friends of the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle .

On October 10, 1995 Möhrle received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . Shortly before his 70th birthday, Möhrle was honored for his life's work on April 18, 2002 as part of the Hamburger Sparkasse's founder award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bahr boss Jens Peter Möhrle has died. dpa-Newskanal, March 27, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "I see myself as a source of ideas" , interview with Dirk Möhrle from January 30, 2013 at impulse.de
  3. ↑ DIY store pioneer Peter Möhrle honored , article in Die Welt from April 18, 2002
  4. ↑ The next generation arrives , article in der Welt am Sonntag of October 5, 2003
  5. ↑ Frank Binder: Head of DIY store Möhrle leaves Max Bahr , article in Die Welt from November 19, 2004
  6. ↑ Bob Geisler: Oh, Max! Analysis of the demise of a DIY chain in the Hamburger Abendblatt from November 13, 2013
  7. ↑ Homepage of the foundation
  8. ↑ Homepage of the holding company
  9. ↑ New in the club: Relationships between people and capital: Dr. Kai Kunze , article in Club digital - The magazine of Business Cub Hamburg from June 6, 2012
  10. ↑ Lars-Peter Dickel: Stahlschmidt is now owned by Hamburger Holding in Der Westen on August 4, 2015
  11. ↑ Homepage of the Monument Foundation
  12. ↑ Anke-Sophie Meyer: Departure to contemporary musical spheres , article in Die Welt from January 12, 2017
  13. ↑ https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/freundeskreis
  14. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the Foundation's homepage
  15. ↑ DIY store pioneer Peter Möhrle honored , article in Die Welt from April 18, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Möhrle, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möhrle, Jens Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2020