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Henning Schulte-Noelle (born August 28, 1942 in Essen ) is a German manager and was Chairman of the Board of Management of Allianz SE from 1991 to 2003 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz SE from 2003 to 2012.
Career
[edit]Schulte-Noelle studied law in Tübingen , Bonn , Cologne and Edinburgh . During his studies in Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Borussia Tübingen.[1] In 1970, he received his doctorate in law and later completed an MBA at the Wharton School .
Schulte-Noelle initially worked in a Frankfurt law firm from 1973 to 1975. In 1975, he started working for Allianz-Versicherungs-AG. In 1988, he was appointed a full member of the board of directors and head of sales at Allianz-Versicherungs-AG and Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG. In January 1991, he took over as chairman of the board of Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG and also became a member of the board of Allianz AG Holding.
In October 1991, he became CEO of Allianz AG: Schulte-Noelle made the group international, bought 72 companies during his term in office and built up the asset management. He gradually dissolved " Deutschland AG ", of which Allianz had long been the heart.[2] In 2001, the takeover of Dresdner Bank AG took place, driven primarily by Schulte-Noelle , which became a major financial burden for Allianz itself.[3] At the beginning of 2003, he gave up his position as CEO and was then Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz AG until May 2012.
In addition to his work as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Allianz AG, he is also a member of the Supervisory Boards of E.ON and ThyssenKrupp. For many years he was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG .
Awards
[edit]- In November 1996, he was voted Manager of the Year 1996 in Germany by Manager Magazin .
- On 20 June 2001, Schulte-Noelle received the Bavarian Order of Merit.
Private life
[edit]Schulte-Noelle is married and has two children, a son and a daughter. His son Philipp was CEO of the Ottobock Group.[4]
Literature
[edit]- The Shadows of Power[5] . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1999
- Report about Schulte-Noelle[6] in Manager-Magazin
Web links
[edit]- Literature by and about Henning Schulte-Noelle[7] in the catalogue of the German National Library.
References
[edit]- ^ "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung". 26 March 2000. p. 3.
- ^ Caspar Busse: Der Preuße geht - Sein letzter Tag: Henning Schulte-Noelle verlässt die Allianz; in Süddeutsche Zeitung from 9 Mai 2012
- ^ Pauly, Christoph and Reuter, Wolfgang: . In: . No. 52 , 2002 ( spiegel.de).
- ^ "Management Board appoints Philipp Schulte-Noelle as CEO". Ottobock. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
- ^ http://www.zeit.de/1999/10/199910.allianz_macht_.xml
- ^ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/maechtigste/0,2828,241057,00.html
- ^ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=122757203