Utz Claassen

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Utz Claassen with Markus Lanz (2011)

Utz Claassen (born May 7, 1963 in Hanover ) is a German manager , investor , university lecturer and publicist . Since January 2018 he has headed the medical technology company Syntellix as CEO. Claassen became known to the public through a large number of mandates, including as chairman of the board of Sartorius , EnBW and Solar Millennium , as chairman of the supervisory board of Mifa and Syntellix, and as brief president of the Hannover 96 football club and owner of the Spanish club RCD Mallorca .

education

Claassen grew up in Schöningen and Hannover-Linden . He skipped the first grade and at the age of 17, after 11 years of schooling, passed the Abitur early at the Helene-Lange-Schule with a grade point average of 0.7. Since Claassen had passed his Abitur with this result, the presenter Joachim Fuchsberger invited him to the ARD show Auf Los geht's los on June 20, 1981.

He then studied economics at the Leibniz University of Hanover and temporarily also medicine at the Hanover Medical School . He graduated in economics in 1985 with top grades at the age of 22 as a graduate economist. His thesis on "cerebral research, entrepreneurs and economic policy" was published in 1987 as a book.

From 1987 to 1989 Claassen Michael Wills was a scholar at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford . He was elected President of all postgraduate students at Magdalen College and Oxford University for the period 1986-1987 . In 1989, at the age of 26, Claassen received his doctorate in political science at the Leibniz University of Hanover with the grade magna cum laude .

Professional career

Start of career

From 1987 to 1989 Claassen worked for the management consultancy McKinsey & Company in the function of a project manager (as an associate , later as a senior associate ). From 1989 to 1992 he worked at Ford of Europe , among other things as responsible controller and member of the first simultaneous engineering team with cross-divisional measures. On June 16, 1992, he moved to Volkswagen as head of the functional controlling department . From December 1, 1992 he was the main department head in the area of controlling, research and development . From June 1, 1993, he headed the newly created Controlling Product Lines division . On June 10, 1993, he became the representative of the Brand Management Board for Controlling and Accounting. With effect from July 1, 1993 Claassen was appointed head of the Controlling and Accounting division and on September 1, 1993 appointed to the top management.

Between 1994 and 1997 Claassen was CFO and representative of the President of the VW subsidiary Seat . The radical restructuring measures introduced during his tenure meant that the company was able to return to profitability within three years, after having closed the 1993 financial year with a loss of 151 billion pesetas (1.8 billion DM).

From 1997 to 2003 he was CEO of the biotech and mechatronics company Sartorius . During Claassen's tenure, Sartorius doubled sales, improved earnings potential, and six acquisitions were made. While some owners accused him of mismanagement after he left, Karin Sartorius-Herbst said on the occasion of his departure, “We simply have to thank him that we still exist”. Employees were also positive about Claassen's management style.

EnBW

In 2003 he followed Gerhard Goll as CEO of EnBW , which he left again in 2007. During his tenure at EnbW, he was a member of the board of directors of the Verband der Elektrizitätswirtschaft eV and deputy chairman of the board of the Association of Consolidated Companies and Regional Energy Suppliers in Germany (VRE eV). From 2006 to 2007 he was the first German member of the Comité Exécutif of Electricité de France .

According to the annual report by the auditing company PwC , Utz Claassen found a loss-making company when he joined EnBW in May 2003. In 2003 the utility had a loss of billions (minus 1,193 million euros), mainly due to goodwill amortization; the dividend was canceled. In 2004 the company returned to profitability through cost reductions and the sale of investments with a net profit of 308 million euros.

Claassen was accused of having badly calculated the situation of the group after taking office in order to be able to present himself as a successful restructuring company . The public prosecutor's office started investigations after he had made write-offs of one billion euros on investments in its first half-year balance sheet in August 2003. According to Claassen, however, these write-offs were used to clean up the "legacy" of his predecessor Gerhard Goll, who had taken an aggressive acquisition course in the past and against which the public prosecutor had been investigating since 2003 because of the glossing over of the balance sheet. Furthermore, write-offs are owed to new international accounting rules and various contaminated sites, according to Claassen. The allegations included a 29.9 percent stake in Stadtwerke Düsseldorf , which was acquired in 2001 for just under 450 million euros. After taking office, Claassen valued the participation in the balance sheet by 208 million euros. In doing so, he wanted to comply with the change in accounting from HGB to IFRS, which was still decided by Goll . In 2006 the public prosecutor dropped the proceedings against Utz Claassen in accordance with Section 170 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO) , as the investigations did not reveal sufficient grounds to file a lawsuit. The investigation against Goll was also closed.

Because Claassen had personally invited six members of the Baden-Württemberg state government and the State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry Matthias Machnig , all of whom were in contact with EnBW, to games in the 2006 World Cup , the Karlsruhe public prosecutor brought charges against him for granting benefits . The Karlsruhe Regional Court acquitted Claassen on November 28, 2007 after Claassen, unlike two of the government politicians he considered, had not accepted the deal proposed by the public prosecutor to stop the proceedings against a fine: “I cannot agree to a stop against a fine when I am 100 percent convinced of my innocence ”. The appeal filed by the public prosecutor's office was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in October 2008 . At the end of the proceedings, Claassen described the judgment as a victory for sport, for sport sponsoring and for ensuring that appropriate contact and discourse between politics and business in the social framework would still be possible in the future. The proceedings against the two politicians who accepted the offer were discontinued against payment of 2500 euros each.

Utz Claassen left EnBW on September 30, 2007 at his own request before the end of the contract period. His high transitional allowance was criticized in public and ultimately led to a reduction of future EnBW transitional allowances and pension payments to a third of the amount to be paid to Claassen. Criticism of Claassen's management style repeatedly reached the public on the part of his employees and business partners. It was claimed that he had created a culture of mistrust and intrigue and that he had wrongly adorned himself with the successes of his predecessor Gerhard Goll . Only after a legal dispute did he waive an early pension of 400,000 euros per year in exchange for a one-off payment of 2.5 million euros. In 2004 Claassen received remuneration of 4.17 million euros.

Syntellix

In 2008 Claassen founded the medical technology manufacturer Syntellix AG and initially acted as its majority shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board. The company's main product is "Magnezix", an implant that is degradable in human tissue in the case of bone fractures.

Claassen's long-time friend Carsten Maschmeyer was also involved in Syntellix AG until the end of 2016 , until he left as a result of a legal dispute between the two shareholders. The starting point is u. a. a criminal complaint by Maschmeyer against Claassen on suspicion of infidelity. As an occasion, Maschmeyer took a sponsorship contract concluded in 2015 between the company Syntellix and the Spanish football club RCD Mallorca , where Claassen acted as president and managing director in addition to his work at Syntellix. Maschmeyer's lawyer Gerhard Strate accused Claassen of having to inform the Syntellix supervisory board about the conflict of interest arising from his dual role. Contrary to the accusations made by Maschmeyer, however, the Hanover public prosecutor's office did not see sufficient evidence of criminal behavior. She justified this decision by stating that such advertising contracts are an industry-standard means of sales-oriented companies. Maschmeyer was also unsuccessful in civil law against Claassen before the Hanover regional court . Claassen himself contradicted the allegations at a Syntellix shareholders' meeting and also initiated legal action against Maschmeyer. Finally, the two entrepreneurs reached an out-of-court settlement at a shareholders' meeting shortly before Christmas 2016. As a report published in the Federal Gazette confirmed, Maschmeyer transferred his entire stake to Claassen, who then combined 77.7% of the shares. Maschmeyer did not want to comment on this agreement, Claassen let his spokesman say: "I was there, he started an argument - I'm still there".

In January 2018, Claassen moved from chairing the supervisory board to the top of the executive board of Syntellix in order to accelerate operational development and expand internationally. Since then, Claassen has focused on his board activities at Syntellix.

Solar Millennium

On January 1, 2010 he became CEO of Solar Millennium in Erlangen. At Solar Millennium, Utz Classen received a 5-year contract with a monthly fixed salary of 100,000 euros and other benefits. His calling caused astonishment in the industry, especially since he was considered a proponent of nuclear energy . After just two and a half months, he resigned on March 15, 2010. Claassen stated that he felt deceived by those responsible for the Solar Millennium and accused them of improper business practices. He only accepted the post of CEO because he had not been informed about the real economic situation of the company.

His behavior came under public criticism at the end of May 2010 because of the initial bonus of 9 million euros because he tried to enforce his claim with a declaratory action and only wanted to repay 2.5 million euros. For his 74-day term of office, he demanded damages and a severance payment of 7.12 million euros. The company denied the legality of the signing bonus after such a short tenure and demanded damages in the amount of 9 million euros. After a brief hearing before the regional court on September 9, 2011, a settlement was sought, but the further proceedings were delayed due to the insolvency of Solar Millennium in December 2011. Finally, an agreement was reached in April 2013. The insolvency administrator of Solar Millennium had carried out an examination of the facts and came to the conclusion that Claassens' termination was justified and lawful and that the insolvency estate did not have any claims for repayment against Claassen. After signing, he said that with realistic assessments, there was no prospect of winning the lawsuit. A continuation would therefore only unnecessarily burden and delay the insolvency proceedings with further costs. In August 2011 it became known that the BaFin was investigating the allegation of insider trading in connection with Claassen's assumption of office as part of a formal investigation.

At the beginning of April 2012, Claassen sued his former, now bankrupt, employer again for damages in a US court in the state of California . He justified his lawsuit with alleged damage to reputation by company representatives. Because of their statements to the press and the public, he had not found a new job.

further activities

From 2008 to 2009 Claassen worked as a consultant for the US financial investor Cerberus . Since 2013 he has been working for the company again as a Senior Advisor.

At the beginning of June 2014 he was appointed to the supervisory board of MIFA Mitteldeutsche Fahrradwerke AG . In the course of the following insolvency proceedings , he and the main shareholder Carsten Maschmeyer entered into a legal dispute with the insolvency administrator about influence in the company. Maschmeyer and Claassen lost. In December 2014 Mifa was sold by the insolvency administrator to the entrepreneurial family Nathusius .

Claassen is co-founder and shareholder of Rulebreaker Management GmbH. The Start-Up - incubator from Hannover to disruptive helping business models and innovations to success. Among other things, Rulebreaker participates in the freelancer platform Smartjobr, in which Claassen also invests personally.

Claassen also acts on the advisory board of EIM Executive Interim Management GmbH.

In the football business

Hannover 96

In 1997, Claassen was president of the then regional league team Hannover 96 for 74 days . Claassen's restructuring plan for the football club met resistance from coaches, players and fans . After Claassen had dismissed the club manager Franz Gerber , against whom he was also taking legal action, without notice, he was severely threatened from the club environment. Claassen was then always with bodyguards to the stadium. Faced with the threat of being voted out of office, he resigned from office in autumn 1997.

Under Claassen, EnBW, as sponsor of the Karlsruher SC , successfully urged in January 2005 to dismiss the new head coach of the KSC Reinhold Fanz . This had only been called a week earlier. EnBW had threatened not to renew the current sponsorship contract if Fanz continued to work for KSC. The background was a dispute between Claassen and Fanz, who was coach of Hannover 96 at the time, a good seven years ago. In an interview with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , he had denied his club president Claassen all football expertise in connection with Gerber's dismissal without notice and accused him of lying. Claassen then had Fanz forbid this statement by court order under threat of a fine of 250,000 euros.

RCD Mallorca

In November 2010 Claassen joined RCD Mallorca as a private investor and took over ten percent of the club's shares for 500,000 euros with the aim of developing the club into a Europe-wide brand. At the end of 2011 Claassen increased its stake to 20 percent by acquiring shares from Rafael Nadal and his uncle Toni Nadal . As a member of the board of directors, he was now responsible for sponsoring and for “developing the RCD into a Europe-wide brand”.

In March 2012, Claassen sued the association's board of directors for damages in the amount of 600,000 euros after it was found that the board had paid significantly less for its shares. On March 24, the competent court in Palma de Mallorca announced that the lawsuit had been dismissed.

In November 2014, the Claassen couple bought a further 25 percent of the club's shares. Since December 2014 Utz Claassen has been President and General Manager of the association. His wife Annette became the club's representative. Claassen was the first German in the world to own a football club. Due to his commitment and the associated goal of leading the Spanish second division club back to the top class, Die Zeit dubbed him "King of Mallorca" in 2015.

In January 2016, the American investor group Liga ACQ Lagacy Partners LLC acquired 80 percent of the shares as part of a capital increase; Claassen kept the remaining 20 percent. The investor group is owned by the Phoenix Suns -Eigentümer Robert Sarver, vice-president of the Phoenix Suns Andy Kohlberg and two-time NBA - MVP Steve Nash .

Furthermore, in June 2016, Monti Galmés took over the position of Club President of Claassen. He justified his departure as president with the institutional and financial restructuring of the club through a strategic realignment. With the entry of investors and the associated capital increase of more than 20 million euros, financial stability will be secured over the long term.

University commitment

Utz Claassen has been an active teaching honorary professor at the Institute for Controlling at Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2001 and has been the university's ambassador since 2009.

Since 2001 he has been teaching at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Department of Business Administration, for several years and was a member of the external advisory board of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 2001 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2012 he was a member of the Board of Trustees and the extended Board of Trustees of the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Since 2009 Claassen has also been professor for innovative corporate management, risk management and knowledge management at the GISMA Business School .

Other offices

  • From 2001 to 2003 Claassen was chairman of the Association of the German Precision Mechanical and Optical Industry eV, Cologne (renamed in May 2002 as part of a realignment to: SPECTARIS, German Industrial Association for Optical, Medical and Mechatronic Technologies eV).
  • From 2006 to 2009 Claassen was chairman of the BDI Initiative for Innovation Strategies and Knowledge Management of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), which was renamed the BDI Initiative for Knowledge and Competence Management in 2008 . During the same period Claassen was a member of the Research Union for Business and Science of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .
  • Claassen does volunteer work , among other things as a member of the board of the ' Lower Saxony Economic Research Foundation ' and as a permanent member of the decision-making board of the German Business Innovation Prize . This activity attracted particular attention because his time as a member of the supervisory board also included the awarding of the prize to himself (in 2016) and to his company Syntellix (2013).
  • In addition, he was an honorary member of the jury for "Top 100", an award for the most innovative medium-sized German companies. Among other things, an “Innovator of the Year” will be chosen. Internationally, Claassen does volunteer work as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Festival Mùsica Mallorca and the Oxford and Cambridge University Club London. He is Economic Adviser of Municipal Government of Wuhu / China and full member of the Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences (AMTN) Russia in Moscow.
  • Claassen has held numerous advisory board mandates, including at the auditing company Deloitte (since 2009) and Deutsche Bank Hannover; He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Otto Bock Group until 2017 .

Journalistic activities

Claassen is a book author and author of numerous scientific publications. Claassen is mainly concerned with corporate management, knowledge and risk management, innovation and communication. He also expresses himself regularly in interviews and newspaper articles - for example in Manager Magazin .

Book publications

  • Cerebral Research, Entrepreneurship and Economic Policy. An interdisciplinary approach using the example of interhemispheric relations . Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 1987, ISBN 3-8204-9766-8 .
  • Science park and technology center performance in Great Britain and West Germany. An empirical study based on user experience . University of Hanover 1989. ( Dissertation )
  • with Jürgen Hogrefe : The light and the dark. Ethics, energy, aesthetics . Steidl, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-88243-994-7 .
  • with Jürgen Hogrefe : The new thinking - thinking the new. Ethics, energy, aesthetics . Steidl, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-86521-120-8 .
  • Courage for the truth. How we can rehabilitate Germany. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938017-83-8
  • We ghost drivers. We think wrong. We steer wrong. We risk our children's future. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86774-066-1 ; Claassen analyzes the causes of the financial market crisis.
  • Atomic blood: a business crime . Econ Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-430-20130-8 . The book is Claassen's first crime thriller.
  • Uncomfortable. Consistently more successful than others . Ariston Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-424-20096-6 .

scientific publications

  • Infrastructure Industries - Innovation will also make the difference between success and failure in the energy industry . In: Profitable company growth: Innovation and technology as value drivers, Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Tom Sommerlatte on his 70th birthday, Arthur D. Little, 2008, pp. 45–56.
  • Innovation field energy - the contribution of the research union to energy research in Germany . In: Wissenschaftsmanagement 3, May / June 2007, Lemmens Medien: Bonn 2007.
  • Comments on the energy policy discussion . In: NIW Lecture Series, Volume 16, Ed .: Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research: Hannover 2007.
  • Redevelopment. In: Handwortbuch der Betriebswirtschaft (HWB), 6th edition, Schäffer - Poeschel: Stuttgart 2007.
  • The China Syndrome: Climate Protection and Energy Policy. In: Die Umweltmacher - 20 years BMU - History and Future of Environmental Policy, Ed .: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Hoffmann and Campe: Hamburg 2006.

Awards

  • Innovation Award (2002) from the German Association for Association Management eV as chairman of the SPECTARIS association.
  • Knowledge Manager of the Year (2003), awarded by Commerzbank for his services as manager of Sartorius AG.
  • Cross of Merit, First Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (2003).
  • Russian Order of St. Nicholas (2005). According to the Russian lobbyist Andrey Bykov, he received the award in return for measures of “political landscape maintenance” ( creating euphemism for a favorable business climate ). Accordingly, under Claassen, EnBW paid a total of 130 million euros to Bykov, who used it to finance schools, hospitals and chess clubs, among other things.
  • Order of Knights of the French Legion of Honor (2006) for his collaboration with Electricité de France as CEO of EnBW.
  • Balearic regional award Premio Ramón Llull (2016) for his commitment to RCD Mallorca.
  • Innovation award of the German economy 2016 in the category “Most Innovative Entrepreneur International”.

Private

Claassen has a daughter with his wife Annette.

Web links

Commons : Utz Claassen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Claassen, Utz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover