Wolfgang Schuppli

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Wolfgang Schuppli (born June 19, 1922 in Bad Landeck , Silesia , † April 30, 2015 in Wiesbaden ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Schuppli was the son of a lawyer. He studied law, psychology and philosophy in Breslau , Munich and Leipzig . In 1952, after being a prisoner of war, he settled as a lawyer in Wiesbaden. As early as 1957, he founded Deutsche Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs AG (DEURAG), one of the first German legal protection insurance companies . Accident and life insurance followed later. In 1982 he sold a 50.1 percent stake in DEURAG to Continentale Krankenversicherung and kept a 49.9 percent stake himself. DEURAG is one of the ten largest German legal expenses insurance companies.

In the early 1970s, Schuppli sued the regional insurance monopoly of the Badische Gebäudebrandversicherungsanstalt . In 1985, at the insistence of the Federal Cartel Office , the armaments group Rheinmetall had to part with its stake in Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF), the Geislingen-based cutlery and cookware manufacturer. Schuppli took over the majority in WMF for 60 million  DM . In mid-1986 he became chairman of the company's supervisory board, which he then restructured. In August 1988 he took over the majority in the sewing machine manufacturer Pfaff for 115 million DM . His restructuring efforts were unsuccessful, however, so that in July 1993 he sold Pfaff to Hong Kong businessman James Henry Ting and his Semi-Tech Co Ltd. sold.

In the following years, Schuppli founded four mortgage banks that gave low-interest loans to municipalities ( Kommunalkredit ) and the state through Pfandbriefe : In 1987, Schuppli founded Hypothekenbank in Essen AG together with Hubert Schulte-Kemper . In autumn 2007 he sold the remaining 49% to Commerzbank . In 1989 he founded the Hypothekenbank in Berlin AG , which he sold to the Dexia Group in 2003 and which today operates as Dexia Kommunalbank Deutschland AG . In 1997 he founded the Düsseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG , which at the in April 2008 due to massive financial problems Deposit Protection Fund of the German Federal Association of Banks (BdB) has been transferred. In July 2010 it was sold to the US investment company Lone Star , which had also already acquired IKB Deutsche Industriebank . In 1999 he founded the First European Pfandbrief and Kommunalkreditbank (EEPK), which he also sold to Commerzbank in early 2008. At his mortgage banks and his industrial holdings, he and his wife were mostly represented as chairmen of the supervisory board .

Helvetic Grundbesitz Verwaltung GmbH (founded in July 1967), initially based in Wiesbaden, later from July 1990 in Berlin and from December 2010 in Murnau am Staffelsee, was also part of the group of companies . In 1995 the WMF house was bought, a listed Art Nouveau house in Leipziger Strasse  112 in Berlin from 1905. For years Helvetic Grundbesitz Verwaltung GmbH had been in dispute with the Berlin Building Senate over the obligation to build arcades in front of the house .

In the ranking of Manager Magazin , the Schuppli family fortune reached 69th place in 2007 and only 452th in 2013 ( list of the 500 richest Germans ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.vrm-trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/wolfgang-schuppli
  2. ↑ a b c golden hand . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1988, pp. 91 ( online ).
  3. ^ Controversy over monopolies . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1973.
  4. ^ Offensive into civilian action . In: Die Zeit , No. 25/1992.
  5. ↑ Doubt about loyalty . In: Die Zeit , No. 2/1986
  6. ↑ Schuppli gives majority to WMF . In: FAZ , December 15, 1993.
  7. ↑ a b Wolfgang Schuppli - bankruptcy of a bank collector . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Financial Times Deutschland , April 23, 2008.
  8. ↑ S. Jost, A. Rexer: No mistake left out - The Eurohypo drama . In: Die Welt , March 1, 2012.
  9. ↑ We definitely do not build the arcades . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 19, 1999.
  10. ↑ sky-line.de ( Memento from April 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ Schuppli's life's work is falling apart . In: Handelsblatt , April 23, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Schuppli, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Landeck , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2015
Place of death Wiesbaden