Ulrich Grillo

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Ulrich Grillo, BDI Vice President, Berlin 2013

Ulrich Grillo (born September 2, 1959 in Cologne ) is a German entrepreneur and former President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) .

Career

After graduating from high school, Grillo did his military service from 1978 to 1979 . From 1980 to 1982 he completed vocational training as a banker at Deutsche Bank . From 1982 he studied business administration at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1987 he became a business graduate . After working as audit manager for the auditing and tax consultancy firm Arthur Andersen in Frankfurt, he worked for the multinational management consultancy group AT Kearney in Düsseldorf.

From 1993 to 2001 Grillo was with the armaments company Rheinmetall AG, initially as head of the Controlling department of the Rheinmetall Group's management holding company. In 1996 he took over the central planning and controlling department as director with full power of attorney, and in 1998 he received general power of attorney. From July 1999 to July 2001, Grillo was a member of the executive board responsible for the finance / controlling department of Rheinmetall DeTec AG, Ratingen. From November 1999 to April 2001 he was chairman and managing director of STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Bremen, a subsidiary of Rheinmetall DeTec AG. In December 1999, Grillo was appointed deputy chairman of the board of Rheinmetall DeTec.

In 2001 he became a member of the board of the family-owned company of the Grillo Group in Duisburg. The Grillo Group, which generates 637.85 million euros in sales, is owned by the children of Herbert Grillo , Gabriela and Rainer Grillo. Grillo-Werke AG, on the other hand, which is a subsidiary of the group and generated around EUR 310 million in sales in 2015, has around 150 shareholders. Ulrich Grillo's family branch holds less than 2% of the Group's subsidiary, Grillo-Werke AG. When he joined the group, he himself bought 10% of Grillo-Werke AG for which he was in debt. The purchase price was almost 6 million euros and was made with 1 million euros in equity. Ulrich Grillo still manages the group and the Grillo-Werke, although Grillo-Werke AG has been in the red for years. Due to a deferred tax burden since 1999 (which amounts to more than half of the equity of Grillo-Werke AG), the municipalities agreed to keep these debts for many years in order not to take away the company's livelihood. The Grillo-Werke are 87% financed with outside capital, with company assets amounting to 44 million euros. In 2017 Ulrich Grillo's block of shares was still in debt to the Westfalenbank for EUR 2.88 million.

From 2005, Ulrich Grillo dealt with commodity issues for commodity Alliance (ARS), the security of supply of German industry for critical raw materials such as rare earths , should improve, he could twelve DAX win undertakings incinerating or by BASF on ThyssenKrupp to VW and BMW . Grillo managed to spread the subject of raw materials widely in industry and politics. In the Ministry of Economic Affairs , a service center was set up for the company.

From November 2006 until the end of 2012 was Grillo president of the trade association metals, the German non-ferrous metals industry. From 2006 he was chairman of the raw materials committee of the BNI. In 2011 he became one of nine Vice Presidents of the BDI. In November 2012 he was elected to succeed Hans-Peter Keitel as President of the Federation of German Industries , whose position he took over on January 1, 2013. Since January 2013 he has also been President of the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative .

Grillo participated in the 2013 Bilderberg Conference in Hertfordshire .

Grillo is a member of the board of steel and metal trade Klöckner & Co .

Awards

In 2008 Grillo received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2017 he was awarded the Walter Scheel Prize .

Private life

Grillo is married with two daughters and plays golf.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WirtschaftsVereinigung Metalle elects Ulrich Grillo as new President Energy and raw material issues continue to be of great importance Representing the interests of medium-sized companies even more strongly. News aktuell, November 8, 2006, accessed on May 17, 2014 .
  2. ^ WAZ on the 50th birthday. In: WAZ. November 8, 2006, accessed May 18, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual and consolidated financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016
  4. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/neuer-bdi-chef-ulrich-grillo-ich-bin-energieintensiv/7436168.html
  5. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/neuer-bdi-chef-ulrich-grillo-ich-bin-energieintensiv/7436168.html
  6. ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements of Ulrich Grillo Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH for the financial year from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007
  7. ↑ https://heft.manager-magazin.de/MM/2017/3/149612746/
  8. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/fuehrungswechsel-grillos-bdi-amt-hatte-seinem-unternehmen-zuletzt-geschadet/13726936-2.html
  9. ↑ https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/fuehrungswechsel-grillos-bdi-amt-hatte-seinem-unternehmen-zuletzt-geschadet/13726936-2.html
  10. ↑ Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements of Ulrich Grillo Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH for the financial year from 01/01/2017 to 12/31/2017
  11. ↑ The energy transition was decided far too quickly. In: Manager Magazin. January 15, 2013, accessed May 27, 2014 .
  12. ^ An industrialist in genetics. In: taz. January 29, 2013, accessed May 27, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Ulrich Grillo becomes the new BDI President . Handelsblatt. November 26, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  14. ^ Bilderberg Meetings, Hertfordshire, England 6–9 June 2013. In: bilderbergmeetings.org. Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
  15. ^ Awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Ministry of the Interior and Communication of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. September 8, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  16. ↑ Walter Scheel Prize 2017 awarded to Amadou Diaw and Ulrich Grillo . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( freiheit.org [accessed February 2, 2018]).
  17. ↑ New BDI boss Ulrich Grillo: "I am energy-intensive". In: Der Tagesspiegel, November 26, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Grillo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Just no fuss . manager magazine. January 15, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Grillo, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne