Philippe de Weck

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Philippe de Weck (born January 2, 1919 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † December 11, 2009 there ) was a Swiss banker and bank manager .

Life

De Weck came from a family of the Freiburg patriciate , which included Louis de Weck-Reynold . He studied law at the University of Freiburg and graduated with a licentiate . He was admitted to the bar and worked as a lawyer in Jean Bourgknecht 's practice for three years . He then moved to the family-owned bank Weck, Aeby & Cie. a. When this bank was taken over by the Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft in 1953 , de Weck took over as head of the Freiburg branch. From 1956 he headed the Geneva branch. He was later transferred to the headquarters in Zurich, where he was appointed deputy director in 1964. He subsequently led several business units and was responsible for the branches and lending business in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino . From 1976 to 1980 he chaired the Board of Directors of the UBS, to which he was a member until 1988. From 1989 to 1997 he was a member of a council of experts appointed by the Vatican , which had to reorganize the Vatican bank Istituto per le Opere di Religione after the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano . De Weck has held numerous board mandates outside the financial sector, including Nestlé , BBC , Sulzer , Asuag and SGS .

De Weck was President of the International Association of Christian Entrepreneurs . In the 1970s de Weck took part in several meetings of the "Cercle", a conservatively oriented "informal transnational governance network."

De Weck was married and had seven children, including the bank manager Pierre de Weck and the publicist Roger de Weck .

Publications

  • Future prospects for the Swiss economy. Presentation given at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Swiss Bank Corporation on March 31, 1977. Swiss Bank Corporation, Zurich 1977, DNB 770576230 .
  • Current business policy problems of a major Swiss bank. Presentation given at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Swiss Bank Corporation on April 10, 1980. Appreciation of President Philippe de Weck by Kurt Hess (= Swiss Bank Corporation. Volume 71). Swiss Bank Corporation , Zurich 1980, DNB 209985135 .

literature

  • Fidelius Schmid: God's black cash register. The Pope and the seedy business of the Vatican Bank. Eichborn, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8479-0541-7 .
  • Johannes Großmann: The International of Conservatives. Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-76507-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page 204 of Das Schweizer Imperium , 1982, Jean Ziegler
personal data
SURNAME Weck, Philippe de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2009
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland