Thomas Borer

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Thomas Gustav Borer (born July 29, 1957 in Basel ; legal resident in Büsserach ) is a Swiss management consultant , lobbyist and former diplomat . From 1996 to 1999 he headed the Switzerland – Second World War Task Force . He then was Switzerland's ambassador to Germany until 2002 .

Career

Thomas Borer studied law at the University of Basel and obtained his doctorate in 1985 with the distinction summa cum laude . He then worked at Credit Suisse in Geneva .

Activity as a diplomat

In 1987 he joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) as a diplomat . This was followed by assignments in Lagos (1987) and Geneva (1988/89). The international law specialist then worked from 1989 to 1993 as deputy head of the “Section for International Law” in the International Law Directorate. In 1993 he was sent to Washington to work at the Swiss embassy . In 1994 he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the FDFA by the Federal Council . In this role, as Head of Resources at the head office, he was responsible in particular for the management of the HR, telematics, logistics, finance and administrative law departments as well as for the reorganization of the FDFA and the Swiss network of representatives abroad.

In 1996 Thomas Borer was appointed ambassador and entrusted the management of the Switzerland – Second World War Task Force , which had to represent Switzerland's position in the international conflict over dormant assets and looted gold from the Second World War in Swiss banks ( Swissbankclaims ). He appeared several times before committees of the US Congress and the Knesset . As part of a conference at the Whittier Law School in California on the subject of “Switzerland and the Nazi Victims”, Borer addressed the light and dark sides of Switzerland's behavior during World War II in a widely noticed speech and called for the To approach the Holocaust not only historically and financially, but also from a moral and philosophical mindset. As head of the task force, Thomas Borer played an important role in the successful adoption of the Washington Declaration , a legally binding agreement on the identification of looted art from the National Socialist era. The task force, which contributed to the comparison achieved between the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse and the World Jewish Congress, was dissolved at the end of March 1999 after the crisis had been resolved. In 1999 Borer was appointed Swiss ambassador to Germany .

After a campaign launched by the Swiss tabloid SonntagsBlick , in which Thomas Borer was falsely alleged to have an extramarital affair with Djamila Rowe , Djamila Rowe left the civil service on May 1, 2002 at his own request. Michael Ringier , the publisher of Blick , apologized publicly to the Borer-Fielding couple in July 2002, and editor-in-chief Mathias Nolte resigned. The Ringier publishing house had for a out of court for pain and suffering paid by Swiss over one million francs.

Consultancy

After retiring from diplomacy, Thomas Borer became a management consultant in 2002 . Since then he has been active in the strategic representation of interests in politics, business, society and the media. He performs various mandates for companies and individuals.

Until January 2010 he was a member of the board of directors of Renova Management AG of the Russian financier Wiktor Felixowitsch Wekselberg in Zurich . On November 7, 2010, Borer confirmed a report in the SonntagsZeitung that he had given up all mandates for Wekselberg and its Renova Management AG, including that as a consultant. During his five years as a consultant for Wekselberg, Borer had, among other things, achieved a successful CHF 10 million settlement in the proceedings against the Federal Department of Finance in the Sulzer case and an acquittal in the OC Oerlikon case before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona.

From 2010 to 2015 Borer was President and CEO of Swiss Authentication Research and Development AG , which develops chemical-physical security solutions to protect against counterfeit products . He was also a member of the advisory board of Corestate Capital Holding SA between 2010 and 2017. Borer currently holds various board memberships. Since 2017 he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Capita Customer Services (Germany) GmbH , since 2018 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Global Bridge Strategies AG, a legal consultancy based in Zurich, and since 2019 also Chairman of the Board of Directors of BRR Investment AG. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors at Hendricks & Schwartz (Switzerland) AG since 2006. Borer has been on the advisory board of Oriflame Cosmetics AG since 2010.

In January 2015 it was announced that Borer would support the Kazakh government interests in Switzerland from spring 2014 for a fee of 30,000 dollars per month. The focus was on the extradition of Viktor Vyacheslavovich Chrapunov , a Kazakh oligarch and former Kazakh energy minister, who embezzled millions and then applied for asylum in Switzerland. The federal prosecutor's office dismissed an indictment by Chrapunov against Borer .

Borer appears in the media as a speaker and commentator on geopolitical and economic issues, on German-Swiss relations, especially with the Swiss financial center and banking secrecy, as well as international political relations in Europe and North America.

family

Borer was married to Shawne Fielding from 1999 to 2014 , and the couple separated in 2010. He has three children, two of whom are with Fielding.

Awards

On October 14, 1998, Thomas Borer was awarded the first ever Carl Lutz Memorial Prize.

Borer was awarded the medal against the seriousness of the Aachen Carnival Society for his humor and humanity and has appeared in many international TV and media shows, including the TV shows Wetten, dass ..? , Sabine Christiansen and stern TV .

Publications

  • The principle of legality and foreign affairs. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7190-0937-8 .
  • The Confrontation Switzerland - Second World War: A New Type of Political Risk for Companies and the Lessons for the Future? (At the symposium on the management of political risks in financial institutions, University of St. Gallen). Maerki Baumann, Zurich 2001.
  • Public affairs. Confessions of a diplomat. Econ, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-430-11567-1 .
  • Swiss neutrality put to the test - Swiss foreign policy between continuity and change. Bern 1992.
  • Switzerland and the European Economic Union. Washington 1993.
  • The armed neutrality of Switzerland. Thun 1996.
  • The changing structure and working methods of the FDFA. Revue d'Allemagne, 1996.
  • The role of Switzerland as financial center during World War II, The United States House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Washington 1996.
  • Switzerland - Second World War, London Conference on Nazi Gold . London 1997.
  • Information management in a crisis situation . Aarau 1998.
  • Holocaust Era Assets, Looted Art, the Swiss perspective , Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, JD Bindenagel, Washington, 1999
  • We need more leadership. In: Claude Baumann, Ralph Pöhner (eds.): New start, 50 ideas for a strong Swiss financial center.
  • Assets of the Holocaust: The Swiss Perspective . Fifteenth Annual International Law Symposium, “Nazi Gold and Other Assets of the Holocaust: The Search for Justice,” Whittier Law Review, Volume 20, Number 3, 1999.
  • Introductory Declaration, Concluding Statement . In: Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Department of State Publication 10603, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1999, pp. 121ff, 333 ff.
  • Switzerland and World War II: A General Presentation . In: Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Department of State Publication 10603, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1999, p. 349 ff.
  • Switzerland's Role in the Trade of Art Works Stolen by the Nazis . In: Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Department of State Publication 10603, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1999, pp. 355 ff.
  • Teaching Tolerance . In: Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Department of State Publication 10603, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1999, p. 361 ff.
  • Proposal on the Fight Against the Use of the Internet for Racist, Anti-Semitic or Hate Purposes. In: Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Department of State Publication 10603, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1999, p. 373 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on the dissolution of the EDA Task Force , March 31, 1999. Accessed January 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Press release on the establishment of the EDA Task Force , October 25, 1996. Accessed January 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Interview in Basler Zeitung about the new US President. In: Basler Zeitung , November 11, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ Press release on Ambassador Thomas Borer's trip to Israel FDFA , May 27, 1997. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Thomas Borer: Assets of the Holocaust: The Swiss Perspective. Ed .: Fifteenth Annual International Law Symposium “Nazi Gold and Other Assets of the Holocaust: The Search for Justice”. tape 20 , no. 3 . Whittier Law Review, Costa Mesa, California 1999, pp. 649-658 ( heinonline.org ).
  6. ↑ Katja Lubina: Contested cultural property - The return of nazi spoliated art and human remains from public collections , Maastricht 2009, p. 177 fn. 820
  7. ↑ Jeannie Wurz swissinfo.ch: Review of the controversy over the Holocaust funds. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Djamila Rowe: I never had sex with Borer ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: BZ July 8, 2002. Retrieved on April 20, 2011. Quotation: «Rowe in it:‹ Since I am through the enormous psychological pressure , which (...) Michael Ringier (Swiss publisher, editor's note) and his staff exercised on me, saw no other way out for me and due to the high amount of money offered, I finally consented to their published untrue story and its To be continued to be available. ›»
  9. ↑ Thomas Borer leaves the EDA. In: Swissinfo . August 19, 2002. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ Thomas Borer: Federal Council accepts termination. In: news.ch. May 1, 2002. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ The mud fight continues. In: Der Spiegel . July 16, 2002. Accessed on April 20, 2011. Quotation: «Rowe had stated that she had been put under psychological pressure by the 'Blick' reporter Alexandra Würzbach and had ultimately received a lot of money from her for her fictitious sex confession . "
  12. ↑ Thomas Knellwolf: "Blick" remains there. 2002: Borers Fall, Expensive Texts. In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 14, 2009, page 3, column 3.
  13. ↑ VIP ticker. In: Welt Online . December 8, 2002. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  14. ↑ About Dr. Borer Consulting . Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  15. ↑ Renova loses Thomas Borer as a member of the Board of Directors , handelszeitung.ch, January 18, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2013.
  16. ↑ Swiss Authentication Research and Development AG changes its management team In: Moneyhouse . March 3, 2015, accessed January 26, 2017.
  17. ↑ Corestate has to do without Thomas Borer. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  18. ^ DV Bern AG: BRR Investment AG. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
  19. ^ Felix Sater: Dirty money: Trump and the Kazakh connection. Financial Times, October 19, 2016, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Thomas Borer in the pay of a foreign power In: NZZ, January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  21. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger: Nine Councilors of States have mandates with vested interests , accessed on July 20, 2015.
  22. ↑ Christian Teevs: Tax Agreement: Ex-Ambassador Borer calls for an end to banking secrecy . In: Spiegel Online . November 22, 2012 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).
  23. ↑ 60 years of the EU: “The Club” in Brussels. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, May 9, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  24. ^ Thomas Borer and Daniel Warner discuss the blooming US-Swiss relationship - CNNMoney Switzerland. Accessed April 20, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Thomas Borer: Transparency instead of arbitrariness in the Federal Palace . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 1, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 20, 2018]).
  26. ↑ US sanctions against Russia - “Swiss companies lack foresight”. In: SRF News. SRG SSR, April 12, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2018 .
  27. ^ CV on the website of his company Dr. Borer Consulting. Retrieved on April 4, 2011. (no longer available online)
  28. ↑ Swiss Parliament: Chronology: Switzerland in the Second World War. 2018, accessed March 11, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Dieter Chenaux-Repond Swiss ambassador to Germany
1999–2002 		Werner Baumann
personal data
SURNAME Borer, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borer-Fielding, Thomas Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss management consultant and former diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel