Reinhard Poellath

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Reinhard Pöllath (born January 15, 1948 in Marktredwitz ) is a German lawyer , manager and honorary professor .

Life

Pöllath comes from a family in Upper Franconia that has been running a carpentry shop since the 17th century. He passed the Abitur in 1967 in Marktredwitz. After completing his military service , he studied law at the University of Regensburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1969 to 1973 . He then received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , with whose support he completed a master's degree at Harvard Law School until 1974 .

In 1977 he was admitted to the bar and initially practiced as a lawyer in Munich , then in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . Until 1993 he was the partner of a law firm in Munich and until 1997 managing director of a real estate and hotel company. Together with other lawyers, he founded colleagues P + P Pöllath + Partners in 1997; the law firm is represented in Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt. He specializes in advising family businesses, corporate acquisitions, succession and assets, international and German tax law , foundations and trusts as well as pro bono activities.

He became known as an advisor to the Herz family, who, after disputes between the heirs, offered him interim chairmanship of Tchibo Holding AG in 2002 . After a year he became chairman of the supervisory board to succeed Jens Odewald

In 2006 he was awarded the dissertation of corporate transfer. PhD in succession or sales as a corporate organizational task, based on the manual on corporate acquisitions (14th edition in 2015).

In 2007, after the death of Erich Schumann , he took over the management of Brost Holding, which held 50 percent of the WAZ media group .

He is chairman of the supervisory board of Maxingvest AG (formerly Tchibo Holding AG) and Beiersdorf AG . He was chairman of the supervisory board of Escada SE.

Pöllath holds an honorary professorship at the Institute for Tax Law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (Westphalia) and is spokesman of the board of the Max Planck Foundation , which he founded in 2006 together with Stefan von Holtzbrinck . He is the founder or sponsor of the Foundation Help for Self-Help (Up Microloans), the Foundation ex Oriente, the Korea Foundation, the Beiersdorf-Unna Foundation and a member of the board of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Foundation.

In the fall of 2013, Pöllath was in custody for nine days on suspicion of aiding and abetting the evasion of gift taxes of up to 440 million euros by the pharmaceutical billionaire Curt Engelhorn , whose assets Pöllath co-manages. The back tax payment negotiated with the tax authorities by the Engelhorn family should amount to around 135 million euros.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • with Albert J. Rädler : Handbuch der Unternehmensakquisition. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7875-4304-X .
  • with Hans-Joachim Holzapfel: Law and practice of company acquisitions. Legal and tax aspects. Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-8145-0135-7 (12th edition 2005).
  • Continuation of the company through succession or sale. Economic, legal, tax principles and practice. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2489-8 .
  • with Hans-Joachim Holzapfel: Company acquisition in law and practice. Cologne 2010, 14th, revised edition ISBN 978-3-8145-7435-6 .
Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heads of the economy ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Wirtschaftswoche @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  2. ↑ Beate Franz: "Earning money can't be everything" In: Frankenpost online from April 17, 2007
  3. ↑ a b c Reinhard Pöllath ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2012 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 the website of the University of Münster @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jura.uni-muenster.de
  4. ↑ Andreas Hölting: The Whispering Mediator In: Manager Magazin online from August 19, 2008.
  5. ↑ Tchibo Holding: New dispute among the shareholders In: Wirtschaftswoche online from April 21, 2007
  6. ↑ Reinhard Pöllath: The level-headed mediator In: Handelsblatt online from August 29, 2002.
  7. ↑ The Herz family goes their separate ways In: Manager Magazin online from August 13, 2003.
  8. ↑ Klaus Boldt: Brost-Holding with new management In: Manager Magazin online from March 9, 2007
  9. ↑ Günther Bähr: Eco instead of Otto? In: Focus Online of January 7, 2008
  10. ↑ WAZ: Ex-Tchibo boss Pöllath joins Brost Holding  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Horizont online from March 9, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.horizont.net  
  11. ↑ Annual Report 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 771 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.maxingvest.de  
  12. ↑ Beiersdorf
  13. ↑ Escadas insolvency can hardly be averted. In: Spiegel Online from 10 August 2009.
  14. ^ Max Planck Funding Foundation , accessed on November 25, 2011
  15. ↑ Curt Engelhorn: Billionaire clan can hope for a tax deal In: Spiegel Online from January 23, 2016
  16. ↑ Have two millionaire daughters evaded 80 million euros? In: Augsburger Allgemeine online from January 23, 2016
  17. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database on the website of the California Institute of Technology (English)
personal data
SURNAME Poellath, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Marktredwitz