Wendelin from Boch-Galhau
Wendelin Franz Egon Luitwinus Maria von Boch-Galhau (born August 26, 1942 in Mettlach , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland ), Lic.oec. ( License to teach ), is a farmer and forester , entrepreneur and shareholder and from 1998 to 2007 was the 8th generation chairman of the board of the traditional family company Villeroy & Boch AG . From 2007 to 2017 he was a member of the supervisory board, from 2009 also its chairman.
family
Boch comes from an old merchant family from Audun-le-Tiche in Lorraine near the Alzette -Quelle and is the son of the farmer and forester Franz Egon von Boch-Galhau (1909–1981), lord of the Linslerhof , Britten and Hausbach and partner of Family business, and the Agnes Countess of Montgelas (1914–1992).
Boch married Brigitte Engelsberger (born February 11, 1947 in Rottach-Egern) on September 11, 1976 in Rottach-Egern , the daughter of Mayor Max Engelsberger. The couple has four children. Brigitte von Boch founded a lifestyle company that operates around 14 branches in Germany and Austria.
Life
Born the fourth of seven children, Boch grew up on the Linslerhof estate near Überherrn . At the Swiss university in St. Gallen he earned a degree in business graduate .
Since 1967 he worked in the family business. Before he took over the management of tableware production in Mettlach, internships took him to Luxembourg , Hamburg , Paris and Los Angeles .
Boch has been chairman of the " Saarland Private Forest Owners Association " since 1982 . From 1993 to 1999 he was President of the German Ceramic Industry Association . In 1998, in the 250th year of the family business, he took over the chairmanship of Villeroy & Boch . On June 1, 2007, Wendelin von Boch moved to the Supervisory Board of Villeroy & Boch AG and has been chairman since May 16, 2009. His term of office as a member of the Supervisory Board ended in 2017.
It was not until 1987 that he converted the family business into a stock corporation , but the shares continued to be owned by the family. The initial public offering of preferred shares took place only three years later.
Orders and decorations
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (2005)
Fonts
- Globalizing with tradition . Management of the family company Villeroy & Boch . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-280-05264-8 .
Trivia
When he was at school as a 15/16 year old, he shared a room with the later RAF terrorist Andreas Baader .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XXXV, page 99, volume 156 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2014, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Rainer Desens: Villeroy & Boch. A quarter of a millennium of European industrial history 1748-1998. Mettlach, Villeroy & Boch Aktiengesellschaft, 1998.
Documentary film
- Like the gentleman, so's Gescherr - Wendelin von Boch, ceramics manufacturer . TV documentary by Inge Plettenberg . Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) / Arte , Germany 2006. 44 minutes
Web links
- Martin Scheele: Late satisfaction - Villeroy and Boch families. Manager-Magazin , March 29, 2005, accessed September 29, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ bevonbochshops.com: branches
- ↑ Press release: Changes in the Supervisory Board: Yves Elsen succeeds Wendelin von Boch as Chairman In: mynewsdesk.com , March 29, 2017.
- ^ German Dynasties - The Villeroy & Bochs ARD documentary by Caroline Haertel, Germany 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boch-Galhau, Wendelin from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boch, Wendelin from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, CEO of Villeroy & Boch AG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mettlach , Saarland |