Walther C. Wever

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Walther C. Wever (born October 31, 1955 in Essen ) is a German lawyer and manager . He was a board member of Varta AG , chairman of the management board of VB Autobatterie GmbH & Co KGaA , chairman of the board of VARTA Autobatterie AG, chairman of the board of VARTA Autobatterie AG and from 2010 to 2014 chairman of the board of Curanum  AG.

Life

Walther C. Wever is the oldest of the two sons of the lawyer Günther Wever and his wife Ingeborg geb. Ballas.

Wever passed his Abitur in 1975 at the Bad Nenndorf grammar school. After his early discharge from the German Navy in Eckernförde, he studied law and, from 1976, economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . There he was also active in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg , of which he is currently chairman. After completing his intermediate diploma in economics in the winter of 1978, he completed his law studies after seven semesters with the first state examination in spring 1979.

He did his legal clerkship in Stade, Oldenburg, Brussels and Munich. In 1982 the assessor exam followed at the state examination office in Hanover. During his legal traineeship, as the state chairman of the Lower Saxony trainee lawyers, he took an active part in changing the then much-discussed training regulations for lawyers. From autumn 1982 he studied economics for three trimesters at the University of Delaware , USA, before returning to Germany in autumn 1983 with a Master of Economics degree .

He began his professional activity at VTG Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH - what later became VTG AG in Hamburg . Here he found - in the meantime admitted to the bar - as an in-house lawyer for the shipping sector with around 100 supply ships worldwide, as hoped, an internationally oriented field of activity. Most recently appointed as deputy head of the legal department, he was attracted by the start of commercial activity in the controlling department of Varta AG in Hanover in 1987 .

Wever was appointed head of the board office of Varta AG in 1989 under the board chairman Günter Mordhorst. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was appointed project manager for the expansion into Eastern Europe. In 1992 he succeeded in one of the first transactions in the Czech Republic with the purchase of Akucel, Česká Lípa . He then moved to Česká Lípa and Prague as General Manager in order to set up three production companies for Varta for industrial, car and device batteries with around 1,000 employees.

Wever returned to Hanover in 1994 to take over the finance department. Initially appointed as a general representative, on January 1, 2000 he was appointed to the management board of Varta AG, which is listed in the MDAX . At the request of the company's major shareholders, he was soon given the task of selling the individual parts of the company, which had previously existed as a DAX 100 company. He remained CFO of the company until the general meeting in spring 2003.

From November 2002 to autumn 2009 he was CEO of Varta Automotive AG, which the US conglomerate Johnson Controls had acquired in order to further expand the car battery business as its General Manager Power Solutions Europe and as such also the joint venture with Robert Bosch GmbH called VB Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA. During this time, the company managed to develop into the European market leader in original equipment with the widespread introduction of start-stop batteries and, thanks to a voucher concept for the return of used lead batteries, also to become the European market leader in trading.

Between 2002 and 2009 he was a member of several supervisory boards and advisory boards and for several years each was chairman of the ZVEI specialist association for batteries and chairman of the board of EUROBAT , the European interest group of the lead battery industry. From October 2010 to April 2014 he was Chairman of the Board of Management of the Prime Standard-listed Munich-based Curanum AG, the largest listed geriatric care chain in Germany. Here he succeeded in reorganizing the operative business while at the same time improving quality. After extensive clean-up of numerous contractual and accounting legacies, the company has now regained its strength , which resulted in a successful voluntary public takeover offer from Korian , the largest European nursing home operator .

Wever is the author of the book "Kirche, wach auf!" Published by Fischer-Verlag. In 1982 in Freiburg he married Carola Meyer, daughter of the chief physician at the Johanniterkrankenhaus Stendal, Otto Hans Meyer, and his wife Irene geb. Sietz. There are three children from the marriage.

Memberships and honors

In 1995 he received the “VARTA Entreprenieurial Award” for his development work in Eastern Europe.

During his student days he became active in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg in 1975 , where he held the charge of consensus and then senior in 1976. From June 2012 to November 2019 he was chairman of the Alter Freiburger Rhenanen eV Wever was knighted honorary knight of the Order of St. John in 2001 and a legal knight in 2011. He has been the curator of the Johanneshaus in Empelde since 2010 .

literature

  • Walther Wever: Family Chronicle. Volume 1. 4th edition, Barsinghausen 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 28.09.2010: Walther Wever appointed CEO of CURANUM AG ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Walther C. Wever: Church, wake up! Polemic pamphlet by a latent Christian in 95 theses. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-8301-1447-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Wever, Walther C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH eat