Philipp Daniel Merckle

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Philipp Daniel Merckle (born October 1, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur . From 2005 to the end of March 2008 he headed the pharmaceutical company Ratiopharm within the family company Merckle .

Life

Merckle is the second eldest son of Ruth and Adolf Merckle . After graduating from high school, Merckle completed a business training course, which he completed with a BA in business administration. He then completed a degree in pharmacy in 1998 with a doctorate from the University of Tübingen .

In 1999 he took over the research and development department of the pharmaceutical company Merckle / Ratiopharm. After the company hit the headlines due to a public prosecutor's investigation into bribery of doctors, Merckle moved to the company's management in November 2005. In autumn 2006, Merckle established the World In Balance foundation .

At the end of March 2008, Philipp Merckle withdrew from the operational business of the Ratiopharm Group and switched to the company's advisory board . According to media reports, Philipp Merckle's management style was criticized by his father Adolf Merckle, the company's founder. The endeavor to create an "ethically responsible 'company philosophy'" is made jointly responsible for the decline in market shares. Philipp Merckle's successor at Ratiopharm was the industrial engineer Oliver Windholz.

In June 2008 Merckle joined the supervisory board of Gruschwitz Textilwerke AG, Leutkirch im Allgäu, as the majority shareholder , and was responsible for its chairmanship from October 2008. In March 2009 Merckle took over the sole management of the Austrian glass tile manufacturer Villiglas, Sittersdorf , which he resigned in December 2011.

Philipp Merckle is married to Anne and has five children.

Public performances

As Ratiopharm boss, Merckle appeared personally in TV advertising, side by side with Karlheinz Böhm . The company passed 1 cent on to the Africa Foundation for every drug package sold.

In May / June 2007 he performed together with Arved Fuchs as part of a “departure tour” initiated by his company in order to make his ideas of business ethics known.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The owner cleans up Von Thiemo Heeg , in FAZ.net of November 17, 2005
  2. ↑ a b Ratiopharm website : press release of March 13, 2008
  3. ↑ a b Pharmazeutische Zeitung 12/2008 " Merckle junior resigns "
  4. ↑ Pharmaceutical Newspaper 30/2007 " A departure with a new philosophy "
  5. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : The son must go ( memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2019
  6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : New worries with Villiglas ( Memento from March 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2019
  7. ↑ Adolf Merckle. Obituary notice . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Merckle, Philipp Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmaceutical entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg