Vural Öger

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Vural Öger (born February 1, 1942 in Ankara ) is a Turkish - German entrepreneur and politician ( SPD ). From 1982 to July 12, 2010 he was managing director of Öger Tours GmbH and from 2004 to 2009 a member of the European Parliament . Later he was the owner of the Vural Öger group of companies and managing director of the tour operator V.Ö. Travel.

Vural Öger (third from right) with his daughters and the film producer Yusuf Fersat (second from left), 2006

Life and work

childhood and education

Ögers father was a Turkish general, his mother comes from an upper-class family. After attending school in Ankara Öger went in 1960 to Germany and began in 1961 to study at the Faculty of Mining of the Technical University of Berlin , as he 1968 Diploma - Engineering ended.

Entrepreneurial activity

Besides his studies, Öger worked in the student travel service of the TU Berlin and founded the Istanbul travel agency in Hamburg in 1969 , which was the first to offer direct flights from Hamburg to Turkey. This resulted in the ÖGER TÜRK TUR trading and travel company with limited liability . In 1982 he founded the company Öger Tours GmbH in Hamburg, followed by the establishment of the incoming agency Holiday Plan and the takeover of the hotel chain Majesty Resorts & Hotels in the 1990s. The company hit the headlines in 1996 when 189 people were killed in a plane crash off the Dominican Republic , including Öger Tours' guests. After selling Öger Tours to Thomas Cook in 2010, he founded the V.Ö. Travel - Vural Öger Touristik GmbH a new organizer. At the end of 2015, the V.Ö. Travel - Vural Öger Touristik GmbH file for bankruptcy. The insolvent company included an event agency, a hotel chain in Turkey and a flight operator. On the insolvency of his company, Öger told the Hamburger Abendblatt as follows: “In Germany, insolvency is always considered a flaw. But success and failure, opportunity and risk belong together in business. As an entrepreneur, I do not hope to be reduced to this attempt to be reduced to this final failure. "

On January 4, 2016, the ÖGER TÜRK TUR trading and travel company with limited liability, one of the largest providers of Turkish flights in Germany, filed for bankruptcy and ceased business operations with immediate effect. On February 16, 2016, the headquarters of ÖGER TÜRK TUR were relocated to Düsseldorf and the company was changed to Fly Türk GmbH . The bankruptcy proceedings were opened on April 1, 2016

At the request of Sunexpress - a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines - the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court issued an arrest warrant against Öger on May 6, 2016 to secure a claim from an absolute guarantee totaling around 17 million euros . The applicants had made it credible that Öger had sold numerous properties and company shares below their value.

On 6 December 2016 it was announced that Vural Öger personal bankruptcy at the district court of Munich has filed.

MP

For the SPD , Öger was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 . There he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defense Policy and the Committee on International Trade . He was also a member of the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Television appearances

In the first two seasons of 2014, Öger was one of the investors in the VOX format Die Höhle der Löwen , which gave young entrepreneurs the opportunity to receive capital for their business idea. These investments were made through Öger Investment- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH , based in Hamburg.

Private life

Öger was married to Hannelore Rosler-Weigel for the first time and has three children from two women.

Öger was one of the founders of the German-Turkish Foundation (DTS) in 1998 and has been a member of the DTS Board of Trustees since then. In 2001 he was a member of the federal government's immigration commission headed by Rita Süssmuth .

Honors

In 2001, Vural Öger received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, which the then Federal President Johannes Rau awarded him for his intercultural commitment and for his support for the integration of foreign residents in Germany. In the same year he was also awarded the Medal of Merit of the Turkish State for distinction for special services.

criticism

In 2004, Öger was criticized for his statement: “In 2100 there will be 35 million Turks in Germany. The population of Germans will then be around 20 million. What Kanuni Sultan Süleyman started in 1529 with the siege of Vienna , we will do through the inhabitants, with our strong men and healthy women. ”Later he explained that the statement, which was also published by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet , was only about acted a joke . His statement that German women had too few children had previously been criticized in public.

Book publication

  • My Germany, my Turkey. Life between the Bosporus and the Elbe. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-498-05031-1 .
    • Benim Almanyam Benim Türkiyem (translated by Suzan Cenani Alioğlu). Altın Kitaplar Yayınevi, Cağaloğlu, İstanbul 2003, ISBN 975-21-0411-8 .

Web links

Commons : Vural Öger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Vural Öger  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Grimm, "Die Höhle der Löwen" -Jury: Vural Ögers company is broke , In: Der Stern , December 30, 2015 ( reference )
  2. ^ "Victims" by Erdogan and Putin: Vural Öger files for bankruptcy. In: t-online.de. December 30, 2015, accessed October 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Touristik aktuell: VÖ Travel files for bankruptcy
  4. ↑ a b Rainer Pörtner: The flagship Turk . In: Focus . No. 23 , May 29, 2004, pp. 54 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Vural Öger founds organizer again. ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: fvw.de . January 6, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fvw.de
  6. ↑ Vural Öger founds V.Ö. Travel. (No longer available online.) In: touristik-aktuell.de. January 3, 2014, archived from the original on January 26, 2014 ; accessed on January 22, 2014 . 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.touristik-aktuell.de
  7. ↑ New beginning at the age of 71: Turkish-German entrepreneur Öger wants to know again. In: deutsch-tuerkische-nachrichten.de. January 10, 2014, accessed January 22, 2014 .
  8. ^ Travel company Vural Öger files for bankruptcy , In: Die Welt , December 30, 2015 ( reference ).
  9. ↑ Matthias Iken , Daniela Stürmlinger: Vural Öger reports for his travel company to bankruptcy , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 30, 2015 ( reference ).
  10. ↑ Travel company Öger Türk Tur files for bankruptcy , m.abendblatt.de from January 5, 2016
  11. ↑ Commercial register. Düsseldorf District Court, HRB 76941. Retrieved on July 19, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Justitzportal - Insolvency Announcements. Düsseldorf District Court, Az. 504 IN 2/16. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Insolvent tourism companies: court issues arrest warrant against entrepreneur Öger . Spiegel Online, June 7, 2016.
  14. ↑ n-tv.de of December 6, 2016: Vural Öger files for personal bankruptcy , accessed on December 12, 2016
  15. ↑ Vural Öger no longer roars , n-tv.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
  16. ↑ Commercial register. Hamburg District Court, HRB 122069. Retrieved on July 19, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Just kidding? The fuss about Öger utterances. In: Abendblatt.de . May 25, 2004.
  18. ↑ Quote Hürriyet: literal translation from BILD from May 26, 2004.
  19. ↑ Karen Krüger: He is only one voice among many. In: FAZ.net . August 31, 2010, accessed July 14, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Interview with the SPD candidate for Europe, Öger: "They want to push me into a kebab corner". In: Spiegel Online . May 29, 2004, accessed July 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Öger, Vural
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (SPD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara , Turkey