Tyll Necker

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Tyll Necker (born February 2, 1930 in Berlin ; † March 29, 2001 in Bad Oldesloe ) was a German entrepreneur and President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) .

Life and business performance

Tyll Necker was a student at the Odenwald School in Heppenheim from 1946 to 1950 , where he graduated from high school. There he also met Karin Koch, the daughter of Hans Koch , the owner of the company Hans Koch & Sohn (today Hako GmbH). During his school days in 1948 he worked for a few months at the Hans Koch & Sohn company in Pinneberg in order to earn some money. He then studied economics and philosophy in Göttingen, Munich and Hamburg. During his studies he was a working student at Hako. In 1955 he graduated as a qualified economist. Shortly after completing his studies in 1955, Necker and Karin Koch married. In the same year Necker joined his father-in-law's company as sales manager.

In 1960 he became commercial director and co-partner. His brother-in-law Tim Koch took over the technical management. His wife Karin later became head of human resources.

Since fruit and vegetable growing changed significantly in the 1960s due to the steadily increasing import figures from Southern Europe and many previous Hako customers gave up their business, Tyll Necker's management relocated production to the construction of cleaning machines for companies and municipalities.

In 1966 the company founder Hans Koch withdrew from the company and Tyll Necker took over the management alone.

In 1977 Necker became Vice President of the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering . V. and from October 1980 to September 1983 its president. Since 1980 Necker was a member of the executive committee of the Federal Association of German Industry . V. (BDI). In 1981 he became Vice President of the BDI and from 1982 also treasurer of the BDI.

In 1980 Necker expanded its business in the USA by taking over the American Cleaning Equipment Corporation - today Minuteman International.

Necker was BDI President from January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1990. On January 1, 1991, Heinrich Weiss took over the office and Necker was again Vice President. After quarrels in the BDI board, Weiss resigned on August 26, 1992, and Necker was appointed acting president. On November 30, 1992 he was re-elected BDI President and remained so until December 31, 1994. His successor was Hans-Olaf Henkel .

As BDI President, Tyll Necker campaigned, among other things, for in-house environmental protection and against rising non-wage costs such as the then new long-term care insurance. In addition, he appealed to politics, trade unions and entrepreneurs to conclude a pact for the Federal Republic of Germany. In his own company, Necker was the classic company patriarch who managed the company with a strict hand, but also took care of the care of his employees. Under the more than 10,000 square meter production hall there is a swimming pool and a sauna, in which employees can relax during breaks or after work.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Necker was active on various supervisory boards of former VEB . As part of this commitment, the Hako Group took over Havelländische Maschinenbau GmbH in 1991.

In 1998, the majority (75.3%) of the Thuringian model company Multicar was taken over. The company was privatized in 1991 as part of a management buy-out .

Not least because of Necker's involvement as part of the integration of the former GDR companies, manager magazin accepted Tyll Necker into its Business Hall of Fame in 1998 as an outstanding figure in German business . For a while, Necker was under discussion as a candidate for the office of Federal Minister of Economics. However, since he also strongly criticized certain government decisions, there was never an appeal.

After his death in 2001, Tyll Necker was buried in the Bad Oldesloe cemetery. His wife Karin was then still active in the company as a Hako co-partner until the Hako-Werke was completely taken over by the Possehl Group in 2007.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Blase: From communard to boss. In: shz.de . Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/ausgabe/1992-11-04
  3. ^ Ex-BDI-President: Tyll Necker is dead. In: Spiegel Online . March 29, 2001, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Tyll Necker makes a big contribution to Multicar. In: Tagesspiegel . July 30, 1998, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  5. ^ Bernhard Harms Medal. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifw-kiel.de
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Necker, Tyll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2001
Place of death Bad Oldesloe