Uwe Woitzig

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Uwe Woitzig (born December 20, 1951 in Hattingen ) is a German author .

Life

In 1969 Woitzig passed his Abitur examination at the Waldstraße high school in Hattingen. He studied law and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 1978 to 1987 he was the managing partner of a brokerage company based in Munich . From 1983 to 1987 he was the majority shareholder of the Sinzinger bank in Ingolstadt . From 1985 to 1987 Woitzig was a founding partner of the Bavarian private television broadcaster TV Weiß-Blau . In addition, from 1984 to 1987 he was Vice President of the European Heritage Foundation based in Würzburg and Athens, whose president was Lothar Bossle from the Sociological Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg.

In 1988, he was sentenced to five years in prison for hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud, half of which was parole.

Until 2010, Woitzig worked as a management consultant in corporate finance . He has been working as a freelance writer and speaker since 2010 .

In 2013 he received the Otto Mainzer Prize for his historical novel "Love and Glory - Liebe und Ruhm" .

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Uwe Woitzig in SWR1 People | Program | SWR1 Baden-Württemberg. Accessed June 11, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Johann Stoll: The Confessions of a Financial Juggler . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  3. Uwe Woitzig - human tv. Accessed June 11, 2018 (German).
  4. FOCUS Online: So went the reading evening in the Hoeneß prison . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on June 11, 2018]).
  5. ^ Johann Stoll: The Confessions of a Financial Juggler . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on July 28, 2018]).