Walter Kohl (entrepreneur)

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Walter Kohl at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011

Walter Kohl (born July 16, 1963 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German entrepreneur and author .

Career

Walter Kohl is the son of the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his first wife Hannelore Kohl and the older brother of Peter Kohl . The family initially lived in Ludwigshafen-Gartenstadt and moved to the Oggersheim district in 1971 .

After graduating from the state Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen in 1982, he served two years as a reserve officer candidates at a fighter unit of the Bundeswehr . From 1985 to 1989 he studied economics and history at Harvard University (USA). He completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts (as a double degree). He completed a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Vienna in the summer of 1990. He then worked as a financial analyst at the US investment bank Morgan Stanley in its New York headquarters in the areas of corporate finance (oil and gas sector) and capital markets (IPOs). In 1993 he completed an MBA at INSEAD in France.

After more than nine years abroad, six of them in the USA, Walter Kohl returned to Germany in 1994. In the following ten years he worked in a managerial position as a controlling officer at Kaufhof Holding and Metro in Cologne, later as controlling manager at Metro Immobilien and Deutsche Vermögensberatung in Frankfurt. In 1999 he founded a management consultancy together with his father Helmut Kohl. In 2005 he started his own business and founded with his second wife, the Korean Kyung-Sook Kohl (born Hwang), the company Kohl & Hwang , a supplier for punching - and order form tools from South Korea for the European automotive industry. From 2007 he worked for the Chinese-owned company Plastic Solution Ningbo Europe GmbH , which supplies plastic injection molding tools for automotive applications, there until June 2011 as managing director. Kohl & Hwang sold Walter Kohl to a Korean investor in summer 2018. Since then he has worked as a speaker and management consultant. In 2019 Walter Kohl joined the CDU and founded the Initiative Deutschland in Europa in 2020 .

author

In January 2011 he published a book entitled Living or being lived , in which he describes his personal career and how he deals with the special challenges of his origins. The book triggered extensive media coverage and was number one on the bestseller lists for weeks. Kohl's second book with the title Leben was du Zeiten was published in May 2013. In 2014, a book was published together with the Benedictine Father Anselm Grün on the importance of Christian ethics in management. In February 2020 he published the political non-fiction book What Future Do We Want? My plea for tomorrow's politics .

Private

Kohl gave his first public interview in August 2008 in the magazine Bunte . He expressed surprise that he and his brother Peter had not been invited to his father's wedding to Maike Richter in May of the same year. Maike Kohl-Richter was accused of being fixated on Kohl "building a wall." This also resulted in the estrangement of Kohl's two sons from their father. Like the entire family, Kohl did not attend his father's funeral. He has a son from his first divorced marriage.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Walter Kohl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on randomhouse.de
  2. ^ Center for your own way of life, Königstein: Walter Kohl - My way of life
  3. ↑ a b c Walter Kohl - The Prodigal Son and Life in the Shadow of the Father , Hamburger Abendblatt , January 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ https://www.initiatived.eu/walter-kohl/ curriculum vitae on the initiative Germany in Europe
  5. ↑ Phoenix personally: Walter Kohl visits Inga Kühn , starting at 2:40 p.m.
  6. ↑ Interview with ZEIT , February 2020
  7. ↑ FAZ book recommendation February 3, 2011
  8. ↑ focus.de: Interview (May 30, 2013)
  9. ↑ Kohl son "alienated"
  10. ↑ Jochen Arntz: My Chancellor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 21, 2012, p. 3 ( bdzv.de [accessed on June 23, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: Eckhard Seeber: "Ecki, come on immediately!" In: Zeit Online . June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Die Welt: Walter Kohl comments on the death of his father , June 16, 2017
  13. ^ FAZ: Criticism of funeral act - Walter Kohl does not want to attend his father's funeral , June 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kohl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein