Wolfgang Marguerre

Wolfgang Marguerre (* 1941 in Heidelberg ) is a German entrepreneur and patron . Together with Robert Taub, he is the founder, since 1995 the sole owner and CEO of the blood plasma fractionation company Octapharma AG in Switzerland.

biography

Marguerre was born in 1941 as the son of Fritz Marguerre in Heidelberg, where he grew up and went to school. He then studied politics and economics in his hometown. In 1972 he obtained an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau . After working at Pharmaplast in Copenhagen , he became director of Baxter- Travenol Europe in Brussels and until 1983 manager of the Revlon Healthcare Group in Paris . In the same year he founded his own company, Octapharma, which launched its first own product two years later. Marguerre is married and has three children. His sons Frederic and Tobias are also in the management of Octapharma.

Patents

Wolfgang Marguerre is the owner of nine patents in the field of infections and blood plasma .

capital

Wolfgang Marguerre's net worth is approximately $ 6.1 billion in 2016 , according to the Forbes list. He ranks 1963 (2015: 663) on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world. The Swiss business magazine balance sheet of the Swiss media portal Blick.ch led Marguerre end of 2014 on its list of "300 Richest" ranked 76th in the list of the German edition of BALANCE, the German business magazine he will place 83 of the list of the 500 richest Germans out .

philanthropy

With a donation of 15 million euros, he made a significant contribution to the renovation of the theater in Heidelberg (with a total donation of 19 million euros and a total expenditure of almost 60 million). According to the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, the renovation would not have been possible without his commitment. The new hall of the building was named after Marguerre.

In September 2015 he supported refugee work in Heidelberg with one million euros. Marguerre is married for the second time. He justified the donation with the origin of the family of his second wife, who had to flee from Gdansk . The money is to be used to build a German course center for refugees, language training is also planned at ten primary schools in the city, learning materials for refugee accommodation and money for training volunteers.

In October 2015, Marguerre donated 250,000 euros for innovations in medical training for medical training at Heidelberg University Hospital .

Awards

• 2009 Légion d'honneur
• 2010 Membership in the Heidelberg Club International , a network of personalities from science, business, culture and politics who act as Heidelberg ambassadors all over the world.
• 2010 Wolfgang-Marguerre-Allee in Springe am Deister was named after him. It leads to the Octapharma production company in Springe (coordinates: latitude / latitude 52 ° 11'41.4 "N (52.1948309 °), longitude / longitude 9 ° 33'50.0" E (9.5638842 °)).
• 2011 Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the State of Austria
• 2011 Sponsor of the year of Save one life
• 2015 Honorary Senator of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg during the celebrations for the 629th birthday of the university.
• 2016 Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

criticism

Marguerre's company came under fire in 2015 as part of its involvement in the refugee crisis for allegedly paying the former Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates an advisory fee in 2013. The socialist was investigated for tax evasion, money laundering and corruption. The clarification of the facts by the Portuguese judiciary turned out to be difficult as a result.

reception

• Harald Barrios: The Foreign Policy of Young Democracies in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Opladen 1999, Volume 1 of Junge Demokratien , 443 pages, ISBN 978-3-663-09677-1 , p. 9: Thanks.
• Klaus Welzel: The whole world is a stage. The Heidelberg Citizens' Theater in a new look. Engelhardt and Bauer, Karlsruhe, 2012, 202 pages, ISBN 978-3-941850-43-9
• Western Europe Major Chemical Manufacturers 2011. Business Information Agency 2011, ISBN 978-1-4187-8520-8 .
• Documentation: Pierre Monnard, Director: The Business with Blood. Switzerland / France, 2016. 53 min. Arte.

music

• Wolfgang Marguerre, Marianne Venzago, Christian Delacroix, Thierry Stockel: String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K.575 / String Quartet in D major, K575
• Mendelssohn Piano Trio / Piano Trio: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Composer), Eugen Polus (Performer), Wolfgang Marguerre (Performer), Christian Delacroix (Performer), Mendelssohn Piano Trio (Orchestra) Format: Audio CD, Label: octapharma, Playing time: 29.24 minutes
• Sponsor of the "Young Chamber Philharmonic Rhine-Neckar"
• Chamber music: Eugen Polus (piano), Wolfgang Marguerre (violin), Christian Delacroix (violoncello): piano trios

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Marguerre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolfgang Marguerre on forbes.com
• Wolfgang Marguerre at the Rhein-Neckar-Wiki
• Octapharma Group chairman Wolfgang Marguerre (MBA '72J) on the pharmaceutical industry
• News about Wolfgang Marguerre
• Current and previous mandates of Wolfgang Marguerre as well as publications in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Octapharma: Milestones (octapharma.de, accessed on January 11, 2016)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Global Business Leaders Conference 2013: Speakers: Wolfgang Marguerre (insead.edu June 28, 2013, accessed January 9, 2016)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wolfgang Marguerre: Octapharma Group Chairman (leaderreport.com, accessed January 11, 2016)
4. ↑ Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Marguerre (patents.justia.com, accessed January 11, 2016)
5. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre patents (freshpatents.com, accessed on January 11, 2016)
6. ↑ Patentdocs Wolfgang Marguerre, Heidelberg DE (faqs.org, patents, accessed on January 11, 016)
7. ↑ Forbes Profile Wolfgang Marguerre (forbes.com, accessed January 11, 2016)
8. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre Net Worth (celebritynetworth123.com, accessed January 11, 2016)
9. ↑ 76th place: Marguerre family (bilanz.ch from December 2014, accessed on January 11, 2016)
10. ↑ Les 300 plus riches: Famille Marguerre ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (bilan.ch, accessed on January 11, 2016) 
11. ↑ Balance 09/2014: The 500 richest Germans (welt.de, accessed on January 11, 2016)
12. ↑ A total of 3,000 supporters: 19 million euros in donations for the theater (rheinneckarblog.de of November 23, 2012, accessed on January 11, 2016)
13. ↑ heidelberg.de - PD_2012_05_Projektbudget increased to 59.8 million euros. In: www.heidelberg.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Opening of the theater: A modest sign for the major sponsor. In: www.rnz.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 . 
15. ↑ heidelberg.de - PD_2012_11_23_19 million euros in donations for theater. In: www.heidelberg.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Marguerre donates 1 million euros for refugees (faz.net from September 14, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2016)
17. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre donates one million euros for Heidelberg's refugees , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, September 8, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2016
18. ↑ Million euros planned by Wolfgang Marguerre: language courses, training and projects (morgenweb.de from December 24, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2016)
19. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre donates € 250,000 to University Hospital Heidelberg to support innovation in medical training (octapharma.com from October 22, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2016)
20. ↑ Press release - The French Health and Sports Minister grants the founder of the Octapharma Group, Mr. Wolfgang Marguerre, the French Legion of Honor during a visit to Octapharma 's facilities in Lingolsheim, France (octapharma.com from April 21, 2009, accessed on January 9, 2016)
21. ↑ May 19, 2010: The entrepreneur Wolfgang Marguerre (Octapharma AG) becomes a member of the Heidelberg Club International (HCI) (s197410804.online.com, accessed on January 11, 2016)
22. ↑ Wolfgang-Marguerre-Allee in Springe, Deister (strassen-in-deutschland.de, accessed on January 11, 2016)
23. ↑ Jump: Council adopts budget: The extension of the Harms Mill Street in Jump to Wolfgang Marguerre Avenue hot. (haz.de from March 17, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2016)
24. ↑ Mitterlehner honored successful personalities from the business world (bmwfw.gv.at of November 9, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2016)
25. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre received the Great Golden Decoration (pharmig.at, PHARMIG info 4/2011 (p. 7 below), accessed on January 11, 2016)
26. ↑ News Octapharma Chairman receives prestigious award in Vienna (octapharma.com on November 10, 2011, accessed on January 9, 2016)
27. ↑ Save on life: Decade of Dedication Gala | Celebrating Our First Ten Years ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 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. (saveonelife.net, accessed January 9, 2016) 
28. ↑ Octapharma Leading Corporate Sponsor of Save One Life (wilateusa.com, May 30, 2013, accessed January 11, 2016)
29. ↑ 629th birthday of Heidelberg University - Wolfgang Marguerre is the new Honorary Senator (rnz.de from October 19, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2016)
30. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Heidelberg ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 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. (uni-heidelberg.de, accessed on January 11, 2016) 
31. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/portugals-justiz-ueberendung-mit-dem-fall-jose-socrates.795.de.html?dram:article_id=371978 accessed on June 15, 2020
32. ^ The Foreign Policy of Young Democracies in South America (springer.com, accessed January 11, 2016).
33. ↑ Klaus Welzel: The whole world is a stage - the Heidelberg theater in a new guise ( memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (booklooker.de, accessed on January 11, 2016) 
34. ↑ Gift ideas: The whole world is a stage (theaterheidelberg.de, accessed on January 11, 2016)
35. ↑ Wolfgang Marguerre, Marianne Venzago, Christian Delacroix, Thierry Stockel: String Quartet No.21 in D major, K.575 / String Quartet in D major, K575
36. ↑ Junge Kammerphilharmonie Rhein-Neckar ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 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. (jkph-rhein-neckar.de, press kit (p. 5), accessed on January 11, 2016) 
37. ↑ University of Church Music Heidelberg: Prof. Eugen Polus - Subject: Piano ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
38. ↑ Piano Trios: Eugen Polus (piano), Wolfgang Marguerre (violin), Christian Delacroix (violoncello) (cylist.com, accessed on January 11, 2016)