Reinfried Pohl

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Reinfried Franz Pohl (born April 26, 1928 in Zwickau in Bohemia , Czechoslovakia ; † June 12, 2014 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer and entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG).

According to the Forbes list, Reinfried Pohl was one of the richest entrepreneurs in Germany. In 2013, according to the manager magazin , the Reinfried Pohl family was 31st among the richest Germans with assets of 3.1 billion euros.

Life

Origin, studies, profession

Reinfried Pohl's parents Gerhard Pohl, a tax clerk, and his wife Maria, geb. Liska, had two other sons, Gerhard and Helmut. During the Second World War, Pohl was an anti-aircraft helper in German-occupied Prague and a tank grenadier on the Eastern Front between 1944 and 1945 . In the summer of 1945, Pohl and his mother were from the Sudetenland driven and came to Halle (Saale) , where he completed his secondary education in 1947. Three years later, in August 1948, he fled the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) to Marburg. At the University of Marburg he studied law , put in March 1953, his first legal state examination and was in December 1953. Dr. jur. PhD .

Professional activity

In 1956, Pohl started as a sales representative for the Gerling Group . In 1967 he went to Bernie Cornfelds Investors Overseas Services (IOS) , where he stopped again in September 1969 and moved to the German Herold . In the same year he developed a concept that was previously completely unknown in Germany by merging the offerings and services of banks, insurance companies, building societies and other capital investment companies . He called this "all-in-one finance". On the basis of this concept, he built up the first asset management company, Bonnfinanz , in 1970 under the umbrella of the Deutscher Herold . Also in 1970 he introduced the term “ asset advisor ” and coined it throughout his further professional career. In 1973 he founded the Bundesverband Deutscher Vermögensberater (BDV), of which he was chairman until 2009. In February 1975 he acquired the Kompass-Gesellschaft für Vermögensanlagen mbH in Frankfurt, which he first renamed "Allgemeine Vermögensberatung" and later "Deutsche Vermögensberatung".

Private life

Reinfried Pohl has two sons and has been with the Marburg confectioner daughter Anneliese Pohl, born in 1958. Klingelhöfer, married. She died on July 9, 2008 after a brief serious illness shortly before her 70th birthday.

Political activity

He began his political life as a co-founder of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) in the Soviet occupation zone in September 1945. After fleeing to Marburg, Pohl became a member of the city parliament in 1954 via the FDP list. In September 1969 he resigned from the FDP and joined the CDU in July 1970 . His CDU membership was suspended in protest against the handling of his friend former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in connection with the CDU donation affair . Since 2000, Pohl has donated considerable sums to the CDU (€ 1.7 million) and the FDP (€ 1.1 million), as well as smaller amounts to the SPD (€ 15,000) and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (10,000 €) donated. In 2012 the city of Marburg received € 4 million from him. This donation will be used for charitable projects, including the promotion of culture, children and youth.

Social work

In 1997 he founded the Dr. Reinfried Pohl Foundation for the purpose of promoting science and research. In particular, the departments of medicine and law at the Philipps University of Marburg are funded. The foundation supported u. a. the “Research Center for Financial Services Law” located in the Faculty of Law. She also acquired scientific literature in order to set up a "nationwide unique special library for financial services law" at the Marburg University.

In autumn 2009, Reinfried Pohl founded the Anneliese Pohl Foundation with endowment capital of one million euros. The aim of the foundation is cancer research . Another million was donated to care for cancer patients and their relatives.

Memberships

Reinfried Pohl was a member of the supervisory board of DWS Investment GmbH .

honors and awards

Germany

In 1998 Pohl was honored with the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2007 he received the Great Cross of Merit with a Star, after having received the lower levels of the order in 1988, 1993 and 1998.

In July 2006 the Marburg city parliament unanimously named Pohl an honorary citizen of the city at the suggestion of Lord Mayor Egon Vaupel (SPD), with the abstention of the Marburg Left . The appointment was justified with great merits as a patron for the city and the University of Marburg, u. a. because he z. B. has donated an editorial office for Portuguese.

Since 1988 Pohl has been an honorary senator of the Philipps University of Marburg. In 2003 the Philipps University of Marburg awarded him an honorary doctorate .

In 2003, 1. FC Kaiserslautern made Pohl an honorary member.

In 2007 the then Hessian Minister for Science and Art Udo Corts awarded him the honorary title of Professor ; Since April 1, 2008, Corts has been a board member at DVAG.

Since 2009 he has been honorary chairman of the Federal Association of German Asset Consultants (BDV).

The Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier Pohl awarded the Hessian Order of Merit in December 2012 for his social commitment .

Austria

In March 1997 Pohl was awarded the Commander's Cross of Burgenland by the governor .

In 2002 he was awarded the Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Portugal

In December 1998 Pohl was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Portugal (Gra-Cruz da Ordem do Mérito Agricola e Industrial).

Romania

In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucian Blaga Sibiu / Herrmannstadt.

Controversy over book publications

In 2005 the book “Reinfried Pohl. I've made financial history. A conversation with Hugo Müller-Vogg ”, published by Verlag Hoffmann und Campe. The magazine Focus reported in the same year that Reinfried Pohl had distributed “vouchers for five copies each” to the more than 32,000 German financial advisors at DVAG for this book. At the same time, he asked them to send individual purchase receipts to DVAG for reimbursement. According to Focus, the Federal Association of German Asset Consultants, headed by Pohl, also distributed "refund vouchers". Focus called this "attempt to manipulate the non-fiction best-list".

In 2013 “The Doctor, the Fighter, the Winner” was published, another book about Pohl. The author is again Hugo Müller-Vogg, the book was published again by Hoffmann and Campe. In 2015, the daily newspaper taz reported evidence that it was not an independent biography, but a publication that had been commissioned by DVAG. Because according to taz, the book was named as a “customer publication” on the website of the publishing division “Hoffmann und Campe Corporate Publishing”, which produces advertising and PR publications. DVAG was named as the customer. According to the taz, the corresponding websites have now been switched off. The DVAG stated that the DVAG had not commissioned the book. “The financial company did not comment on whether DVAG paid Hoffmann and Campe money or took over part of the circulation,” wrote the taz.

Fonts

  • Socialization in Hessen. Articles 39 to 41 d. Author d. State of Hesse from December 11, 1946 , Marburg [sn] 1953, legal u. state science F., Diss. V. 3 Dec 1953.
  • Reinfried Pohl: I've made financial history. An interview with Hugo Müller-Vogg . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2005.

literature

  • Sebastian Chwala, Frank Deppe, Rainer Rilling, Jan Schalauske (eds.): The bought city? The Marburg case: On the way to "Pohl-City" ?, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2016
  • Lothar Müller-Güldemeister: The law and its price - The Foris case. Better Solutions, March 2005.
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg, Reinfried Pohl: The last patriarch. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008.
  • Hugo Müller-Vogg, the doctor, the fighter, the winner. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. DVAG founder Reinfried Pohl has died , Manager magazine from June 13, 2014.
  2. "The 500 richest Germans", manager-magazin special issue, October 2013, p. 28.
  3. a b "Heads of Business: Reinfried Pohl" ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), wiwo.de
  4. Money Maker - Everything from a single source, Focus Money from July 12, 2001, manager-magazin special issue, 2006.
  5. ^ "DVAG and SV in deep mourning" , insurance journal, July 21, 2008.
  6. Gesa Cordes, Ja zu Pohl-Million , Frankfurter Rundschau , February 27, 2012, p. 28.
  7. ^ Resolution draft of the City of Marburg from February 6, 2012
  8. Dr. Reinfried Pohl Foundation , uni-marburg.de
  9. . Dr. Reinfried Pohl Foundation; accessed on January 30, 2019 https://www.dr-reinfried-pohl-stiftung.de/foerdertaetigkeit.html
  10. Pohl Foundation wants to support cancer patients
  11. StAnz. 4/2007 p. 170 ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. Honorary doctorate for Dr. Reinfried Pohl (PDF), Uni News.
  13. ^ Landesportal Hessen, press release of December 21, 2012 Kohl at the medal award ceremony to Pohl
  14. ^ "Dr. Reinfried Pohl receives high distinction in Vienna" ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), dvag.com , May 12, 2003.
  15. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  16. Dr. Reinfried Pohl Foundation | Dr. Reinfried Pohl. Retrieved on February 17, 2018 (German).
  17. Focus Magazin, No. 34 (2005), book market. The voucher campaign, August 22, 2005; accessed on January 30, 2019 https://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/buchmarkt-die-gutschein-aktion_aid_209678.html
  18. Matthias Holland-Letz, "Surreptitious advertising in the book trade". The two-volume saga of the coal lobby, in: taz.de, May 1, 2015; accessed on January 30, 2019 https://www.taz.de/Archiv- sucht/! 5010060&s=Holland- Letz/