His critics call Matthias Gaebler a busybody, a weird bird, a tormentor, the vain rooster at every general meeting. Matthias Gaebler calls Matthias Gaebler a fearsome opponent, a court jester, a tormentor, often the most critical shareholder at a general meeting. The 58-year-old Swabian was at more than a thousand general meetings. This year alone there were thirty-one. Everywhere he appears, he speaks. “Otherwise it makes no sense to go.”Gaebler and the general meetings, the same as a failed play, says a company spokesman who wishes to remain anonymous. What he means by that: Everyone plays their role. The board of directors talks about the situation of the group, the supervisory board leads the meeting. Small shareholders, mostly older men, wrapped in down jackets, plunder the free buffet, some nodding off during the presentations. Representatives of the major investment companies give energetic speeches.
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