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Honor to whom credit is due: Entrepreneurs Susanne Klatten (center) and Stefan Quandt (r.) With mm editor-in-chief Martin Noé.
Why the trade unionist Berthold Huber and the BMW major shareholders Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt move into the Hall of Fame of the German economy – and find each other really sympathetic.
Work and capital finally reconciled – the manager magazin yesterday made the supposedly impossible true. In a ceremony with about 140 high-profile guests in the castle hotel Kronberg were ex-IG metal boss Berthold Huber (69) and the BMW-Groß shareholders Susanne Klatten (57) and Stefan Quandt (53) in the Hall of Fame of the German economy added. Both sides cordially congratulated each other and emphasized many similarities. With the methods of turbo-capitalism, the trade unionists still want to have something to do with the Quandt heirs. Common credo: only long-term thinking really creates values.
Berthold Huber is “a crisis manager, thinker, visionary, but also a pragmatist,” said Birgit Steinborn, chairwoman of the General Works Council of Siemens, in your
Eulogy. She recalled Huber’s merits in clarifying the compliance
Wolfgang von Brauchitsch for manager magazin
Berthold Huber in his acceptance speech for admission to the Hall of Fame of the German economy.
Affair at Siemens. With courage and clever ideas, he later ensured that the financial crisis did not lead to mass layoffs in German industry. Outstanding also his commitment to the peace agreement between VW and Porsche. At times, Huber even joined as supervisory board chairman Volkswagen on. He also interpreted the chairmanship of IG Metall without any airs, “You have always put your own interests behind them.”
Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt embodied true entrepreneurship, praising Nikolaus von Bomhard, chairman of the supervisory board of MunichRe and Deutsche Post DHL. This includes aligning a company with long-term success and assuming responsibility in society as well. Especially at BMW, but also at companies such as Altana or SGL Carbon, they have shown a great deal of foresight and, as reliable anchor shareholders, have made a stable development possible in the first place.
From banker legend Hermann Josef Abs to media magnate Reinhard Mohn, from far-sighted economist and economics minister Karl Schiller to software pioneer Hasso Plattner.
The Hall of Fame of the German economy is a virtual hall of fame with almost three decades of tradition, with the manager magazine under the motto“Against discouragement and mediocrity” annually honors personalities of the German economy.
The winners will be selected by an expert jury consisting of the supervisory board chairmen of Bosch, Franz Fehrenbach, and BMW, Norbert Reithofer, as well as the chief inspector of Lufthansa and Eon, Karl-Ludwig Kley, and ex-McKinsey governor Herbert Henzler. Added to this is the vote of the editor-in-chief of manager magazin.