Ulrich Schröder (Manager)

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Ulrich Schröder (born March 19, 1952 in Melle ; † March 25, 2018 ) was a German lawyer , business economist and bank manager . From 2008 until the end of 2017 he was CEO of KfW Bankengruppe .

Origin and education

Ulrich Schröder, first of two children of the Sparkasse director Konrad Schröder and his wife Gertrud, geb. Lampkemeyer, studied for his high school at the high school Melle from 1970 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster law and business administration . From 1974 to 1975 he was federal chairman of the CDU / CSU student association RCDS . In 1978 he passed his first state examination in law at the Hamm Higher Regional Court and the second in 1980 at the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court . After research assistant at the University of Münster, he studied from 1982 to 1983 at the US University of Illinois (Master of Comparative Law). In 1983, Schröder at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster with the dissertation "Age-related layoffs and age limits in individual labor law: the admissibility of a" forced retirement "at age 65" for Dr. iur. PhD .

Professional career

In 1983 Schroeder joined the Westdeutsche Landesbank . He was first a member of the board of directors, in 1985 he became head of the department and in 1987 he was appointed authorized officer of the bank. In 1987 he moved to London, where he worked in the local WestLB branch. In 1991 he became department director and a year later division manager for the Münster and Bielefeld branches. In 1995 he became a bank director and two years later a member of the board of directors of WestLB France , and the following year he became head of the local branch. From 2001 he headed the Chemistry / Life Sciences division .

In April 2002 Ulrich Schröder became a member of the board of WestLB and there he prepared the spin-off of NRW.Bank . With the completion of the spin-off in August 2002, he became a member of the management board there, and took over as chairman on January 1, 2006.

On September 1, 2008, Ulrich Schröder moved to KfW Bankengruppe as CEO and succeeded interim head Wolfgang Kroh. After Jörg Asmussen, who was now being discussed as his successor, refused to move to Frankfurt for family reasons, Schröder's contract was extended to 2020 in December 2015. Schröder was the initiator of the KfW Foundation.

In December 2015, Schröder informed KfW employees that he was suffering from lymph gland cancer and would be represented by Executive Board member Günther Bräunig if he was absent . At the end of 2016 he was on permanent sick leave. In December 2017, his departure from the KfW Executive Board was announced - for health reasons - at the end of 2017.

Mandates and memberships

Schröder held several mandates and honorary offices; Among other things, he was a member of the supervisory board of KfW IPEX-Bank , Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) , Deutsche Post AG (member of the supervisory board 2008–2018; strategy committee 2013–2017) and Deutsche Telekom AG . He has held advisory board positions at Fraport AG , HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt , Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) and others. Schröder was a long-time member of the board of directors of the Federal Association of Public Banks in Germany (VÖB) and a long-standing member of the executive committee of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft.

Private

Ulrich Schröder was Catholic and was committed to Catholic social teaching. Early on, he was active as a volunteer in the parish of St. Matthäus in Melle, with the scouts or as federal chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) and in the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) . In 2013 he was awarded the title Mensch Melle 2013 .

He was married to Maria Schröder; there are three children from the marriage.

Web links

  • Ulrich Schröder , entry in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, accessed on March 27, 2018, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Long-time KfW boss Ulrich Schröder is dead. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 26, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Age-related dismissals and age limits in individual labor law: on the admissibility of “forced retirement” at 65, on dnb.de dissertation Ulrich Schröder 1984
  3. ↑ Ulrich Schröder's curriculum vitae on the KfW website , KfW , accessed on October 24, 2015
  4. ↑ Heinz-Roger Dohms: The Silent Ascent to Banker of the Nation , Cicero , November 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Ulrich Schäfer: Family comes first - Asmussen not to KfW after all. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 17, 2015, accessed on December 17, 2015 .
  6. ^ Illness of managers: Zwischen Klinik und Chefsessel , faz.de of April 22, 2016 , accessed on December 9, 2017
  7. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/banken/staatsbank-kfw-staatssekretaer-asmussen-will-doch-nicht-in-vorstand-a-1068215-2.html
  8. ↑ http://www.fnp.de/rhein-main/Bericht-KfW-Chef- geht-aus-gesundheitlichen-Gruenden; art1491,2846297
  9. ↑ Mandates and honorary posts of Ulrich Schröder  ( 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. , KfW , accessed on October 24, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kfw.de  
  10. ↑ a b Martin Dove: “Ulrich Schröder excellent. His youth in Melle led to professional success ” , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of March 3, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Melle
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2018