Arend Oetker
 Arend Oetker     (businessman) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 March 1939 Bielefeld, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Cologne | |||||||||||||
| Children | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Atlantik-Brücke, Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||||
German businessman, Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke for 5 years, named one of the: "50 most powerful people in the German economy"
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Arend Oetker is the CEO of the Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin, Honorary President of the Federation of German Industries. Oetker is a great-grandson of August Oetker and cousin of Richard Oetker.
Biography
He is the son of a farmer and grew up on the Hornoldendorf estate with four younger siblings. After graduating from the humanistic Gymnasium Leopoldinum in Detmold and completing his military service (air force), he completed an apprenticeship as a foreign trade merchant at Münchmeyer & Co. in Hamburg in 1960. This was followed by studies in business administration and political science in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne, which Arend Oetker completed in 1967 with a doctorate in political science from the University of Cologne; he then took over his mother's inheritance. Today, he is the head of Dr. Arend Oetker Holding and owner of Hero AG with the core business of baby food and jam under the brand name Schwartau (Schwartauer Werke).
Arend Oetker holds further company interests, including in the areas of seeds (KWS SAAT AG), raw materials trading and shipping (including a stake in the ferry operator TT-Line). In 2002, Manager Magazin named Oetker one of the "50 most powerful people in the German economy".[1] The New York magazine Art News ranks him as one of the world's most active art collectors.[2] He has been a member of the CDU since 1982.
Social and economic functions and offices:
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Förderstiftung des Universitätsklinikums Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)
- Honorary member of the Presidium of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Friends of the National Gallery
- Member of the supervisory boards of KWS SAAT SE, Berliner Philharmonie and Leipziger Messe and others
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leipzig Bach Archive Foundation
- Founder of a chair for leadership at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) [3]
- Member of the Board of Trustees and Deputy Chairman of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation [4]
- Member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society [5]
- Shareholder and member of the Supervisory Board of Cognos AG
From 2000 to 2005, Oetker was Chairman of the Board of Atlantik-Brücke e. V. [6] and from 1998 to 2013 President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.[7] He was also a member of the Trilateral Commission of Europe [8] and President of the German Council on Foreign Relations until June 2019, when he handed over the office to Thomas Enders.[9] In August 2010, Arend Oetker and around 40 other celebrities signed the Energy Policy Appeal for an extension of the operating life of German nuclear power plants.
Opinions
“The USA is governed by 200 families to whom we want to have good relations [...]”
Arend Oetker (2002) [10]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
| Munich Security Conference/2011 | 4 February 2011 | 6 February 2011 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 47th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2016 | 12 February 2016 | 14 February 2016 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 52nd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
References
- ↑ https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/die-50-maechtigsten-der-deutschen-wirtschaft-a-a9925481-0002-0001-0000-000025191044
- ↑ https://www.artnews.com/art-collectors/top-200-profiles/arendt-oetker-2/#!
- ↑ https://www.hhl.de/faculty-research/our-faculty/business-psychology-leadership/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070705162229/http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/index.php?id=52
- ↑ https://whoswho.de/bio/arend-oetker.html
- ↑ https://www.atlantik-bruecke.org/die-atlantik-bruecke/vorstand/vorsitzende-der-atlantik-bruecke-seit-1952/
- ↑ https://merton-magazin.de/arend-oetker-der-feingeistige-anstifter
- ↑ https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/trilateral-commission-members-2005.pdf
- ↑ https://dgap.org/de/gesellschaft/die-gesellschaft/dgapinfo/dr-thomas-enders-ist-neuer-praesident-der-dgap
- ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/ein-whos-who-der-politik-und-wirtschaft-li.7560
