Wolfgang Röller

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Wolfgang Röller (born October 20, 1929 in Uelsen ; † March 9, 2018 in Gravenbruch ) was a German bank manager .

Life

Röller, one of three sons of a customs officer, grew up in Halle an der Saale , where he attended elementary and high school and did his Abitur. From 1948 to 1954 he studied economics at the universities of Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. On December 17, 1954 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole.

In January 1955 he joined the Rhein-Main Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main (after the merger with the Hamburger Kreditbank AG in Hamburg and the Rhein-Ruhr Bank AG in Düsseldorf from January 1, 1957 Dresdner Bank AG ). After various management positions in the securities and stock exchange department, the central securities department and the central securities advice department, he was a deputy member of the board of the bank from June 1970. The German-American Securities Corp., the predecessor of what would later become the ABD Securities Corporation in New York, was founded in 1968 on the initiative of Roller, who recognized the need for cross-border engagement early on. As head of the “Central Securities Department” he achieved one of his greatest coups in 1974: through his brokerage, Herbert Quandt sold a block of Daimler-Benz shares belonging to the Quandt family to Kuwait . With this deal, Dresdner Bank caused a sensation worldwide and bought the ticket for lucrative follow-up mandates.

From January 1, 1973, he was a full member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank . From January 1985 he was the successor to Hans Friderichs as spokesman for the board and held this post until May 1993. In 1993, Jürgen Sarrazin succeeded him as Chairman of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank . He then was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dresdner Bank AG until September 1997, then as Honorary Chairman. Under his leadership, Dresdner Bank returned to the city, where it was founded in 1872, soon after the fall of the Wall in the GDR with a branch.

Röller was targeted by the tax investigators, denied the allegations and resigned to protect the bank from harm. The original, anonymously raised allegation of an illegal connection to Liechtenstein was not proven, however, and the investigation was later discontinued without charge. However, in 1999, after the resignation of other board members, Dresdner Bank paid a fine of DM 37 million for money transferred to Luxembourg over many years for the purpose of tax evasion - a practice followed to a lesser extent by other banks until 1999.

In 1981 he became a member of the supervisory board of HeidelbergCement , its chairman from 1984 to 2004. From 1987 to 1991 Röller was parallel president of the Association of German Banks for four years . At Lufthansa , Wolfgang Röller was a member of the supervisory board from 1988 to 1998 and from 1993 until his death he was honorary chairman of the supervisory board. He was also chairman of the supervisory board at RWE . He was a member of the supervisory board of Allianz (1985 to 1998), Munich Re , BMW (1994 to 2000) and Siemens . At Henkel he was a member of the supervisory board (1975 to 1993) and the shareholders' committee (1993 to 2002). He has been a member of the board of trustees of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation since it was established, including thirty years as chairman, most recently as honorary chairman. Since the establishment of the Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft eV, Dresden, in 2002 he was chairman of the board of trustees and later honorary chairman.

Private life

Wolfgang Röller was married to Ursula Röller until his death and had three sons, including Ulf-Jensen Röller , the television journalist and head of the ZDF studio in Beijing since September 2019 , and Lars-Hendrik Röller , who has been a professor of economics since July 2011 works as head of the economic and finance department in the Federal Chancellery . Lars-Hendrik Röller is the economic advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Honors

Works

  • Global financial markets and risk management as editor, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-428-06610-0 .
  • Latin America's foreign debt: its causes, problems and possible solutions , Eichstätter Hochschulreden series , No. 58, Minerva-Publ., Munich 1987, ISBN 3-597-30058-8
  • The international financial comparison , Frankfurt 1954/1955

literature

  • Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft eV (Ed.): With the green ribbon of sympathy - Wolfgang Röller on his 80th birthday , Frankfurt am Main 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HeidelbergCement : Obituary notice Wolfgang Röller In: FAZ from March 16, 2018
  2. ^ Walther Becker: End of a business trip. In: Börsen-Zeitung of February 14, 2008, accessed on November 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Jürgen Dunsch: Tax evasion: And the tax trick is always tempting. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine from March 7, 2014, accessed on November 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Fines in the millions imposed on banks. In: Tagesspiegel of March 23, 1999, accessed on November 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Röller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelsen
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2018
Place of death Gravenbruch