Werner Michael Bahlsen

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Werner Michael Bahlsen (born April 13, 1949 in Göttingen ) is a German manager and CDU politician. From 2015 to 2019 he was President of the Economic Council of the CDU .

Bahlsen was a member of the management of Bahlsen GmbH & Co KG from 1987 to 2018 . He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2018.

family

His father was Werner Bahlsen . Uncle of (later childless) Klaus Bahlsen (1908–1991) and Hans Bahlsen (1901–1959) with their son Hermann Bahlsen jr. (1927–2014), long-time managing director of the Bahlsen Group. He has two siblings: Andrea Bahlsen (1944–1998, later married Freifrau von Nordeck zu Nordeck) and Lorenz Bahlsen (* 1948). He is the father of four adult children, including Verena Bahlsen .

Life

Werner Michael Bahlsen attended the Kaiser Wilhelm and Ratsgymnasium Hanover from 1959 to 1968 and graduated from high school in 1968. He then learned to be a confectioner in Göttingen and from 1970 studied business administration and economics at the universities of Zurich and Geneva, which was followed by several internships in Great Britain and the USA.

In 1975 he joined the management team at Bahlsen International Holding AG , which coordinated the international business of the family company in Switzerland. In the following year he took over the management of the Spanish subsidiary Loste-Bahlsen, SA in Madrid, in which Bahlsen had acquired a majority stake four years earlier. When he wanted to take over the Biscuiterie de la Baie du Mont Saint Michel in France , negotiations dragged on.

He returned in 1977 and took over the management of the cake production division at the main plant and, in 1981, also responsibility for product development. In 1982 he became delegate of the board of directors of Bahlsen International.

After his father died in late 1985, Werner Michael became a member of the company's management in 1987. After the turnaround in 1989/90 with expansion into the new federal states, Eastern Europe and the USA, there was a family dispute over the future course of the management. In 1996 Hermann settled with the Austin Quality Foods subsidiary in the USA and left Bahlsen KG as a partner. In 2018, when he switched to the Board of Directors, he announced his withdrawal from operational business.

Political positions

Bahlsen was President of the CDU Economic Council from 2015 to 2019 . In 2010 he was one of the signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , in which they advocate coal and nuclear energy.

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Footnotes

  1. Who's who: Werner Michael Bahlsen ; Retrieved Feb. 5, 2013
  2. Press release Wirtschaftsrat der CDU eV , accessed on July 8, 2015
  3. https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/bahlsen-werner-m-bahlsen-uebergibt-fuehrung-an-manager-team-a-1204644.html
  4. https://www.thebahlsenfamily.com/de/impressum/
  5. The richest Germans: Kings in the realm of cookies . In: Spiegel Online . May 20, 2001 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 7, 2018]).
  6. Open letter: Top managers rebel against Merkel's energy policy . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed December 17, 2017]).