Hans Georg Näder
| Hans Georg Näder | |
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.JPG) 2017-12-19 Verleihung Leibniz-Ring-Hannover im HCC (301).JPG Näder in a radio-interview | |
| Born | 19 September 1961 Duderstadt, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
| 💼 Occupation | Chairman of Otto Bock |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
| 👴 👵 Parents |
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Hans Georg Näder (simplified as Nader) (born September 19, 1961) is a German businessman and majority shareholder of Otto Bock group of companies, which specialises in manufacturing prosthetics. Nader was president and CEO of Otto Bock (1990–2017) before taking on his present position as chairman of the board (2017–present).[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Nader was born on September 19, 1961. Nader’s parents were Maria (died 2005) and Max Nader (died 2009). His mother was the daughter of Otto Bock, the original founder of the company which was established following the First World War to provide prosthetics to war veterans and which, during the Second World War, benefited from slave labor provided by Nazi Germany.[2] His father took over Otto Bock group of companies and relocated to West Germany in 1947 upon his return from British captivity during the war.
Nader grew up in Duderstadt and graduated from Eichsfeld Grammar School in Duderstadt in 1981. He went on to study Business Administration at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1981-1986).
Career[edit]
Nader took over the management of Otto Bock from his father in 1990 and has since expanded the group internationally. Nader was praised in German media for turning Otto Bock into a world market leader and German “unicorn”[3]. Otto Bock currently maintains presence in over 50 countries globally and employs approximately 8,000 people.[4] Between 1990 and 2017, Nader was the sole shareholder of Otto Bock before selling a 20% stake in the business to Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners,[5] who, according to Nader, have an option to exit Otto Bock early depending on the company’s financial performance.[6]
On January 31, 2005, Nader was appointed honorary professor at the PFH Private University of Applied Sciences in Gottingen, Lower Saxony.[7] In October 2009, he was named a visiting scholar at Beijing‘s Capital Medical University.[8] Nader was also a co-founder and former chairman of the board of trustees of the Southern Lower Saxony Foundation between 2004 and 2014 (German: Südniedersachsenstiftung).[9]
In 2013, Näder acquired 80% stake in Finnish yacht builder Baltic Yachts.[10] His yacht Pink Gin VI, which is considered the world's largest carbon-made sailing yacht, was then built by his own shipyard.[11] The cost of the yacht, which is registered in Malta for tax purposes, is estimated at 60 million euros.[12]
Nader is also a prominent hotel developer, with several hotels belonging to Nader’s property portfolio, including the anticipated 120-key hotel in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York.[13][14]
According to Forbes’s 2021 World Billionaires list, Nader’s net worth amounted to approximately 3.9 billion US dollars, making him the 775th-richest person in the world.[15] German finance outlet Manager Magazin ranked him in 90th place among the richest Germans in 2018 with a net worth of 2 billion euros.[16]
Social responsibility projects[edit]
Nader is the chairman of the supervisory board and founder of the Otto Bock Global Foundation[17] and has pioneered various social responsibility projects in Germany over the years.
In Autumn 2009, Nader launched the Duderstadt 2020 Masterplan project, which aimed to foster innovative ideas for sustainable urban development. The project also published the book Duderstadt - A City In Motion.[18] In 2011, Duderstadt awarded Nader honorary citizenship for his contribution to the city’s development.[19] The project has since been extended and was renamed Duderstadt in 2030.[20]
In 2010, Nader partnered with German singer Peter Maffay to launch the Duderstadt Children's Shelters project to build a centre for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to provide shelter and treatment for traumas and disabilities.[21] The centre, known as the Tabalugahaus, was opened in 2012.[22]
Managerial roles[edit]
Nader is the chairman of the supervisory board and founder of the Otto Bock Global Foundation.[23] He is also the chariman of the advisory board of Treffpunkt Stadtmarketing E.V., and the vice chairman of the Working Group of Independent Entrepreneurs (“ASU”) and the Federal Association of Young Entrepreneurs – South Lower Saxony Regional District,[24] and the chairman of the supervisory board of NADA, Germany’s anti-doping watchdog, since 2011.[25] He founded the Southern Lower Saxony Foundation[9] and is the member of the supervisory board of Rohde AG, Nörten-Hardenberg[26] and the board of trustees of the Heinz Sielmann Foundation.[27]
Awards and recognition[edit]
Nader received the Federal Cross of Merit in October 2019 thanks to his contributions made to medical progress and social commitments from Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephen Weil.[28] Nader was also awarded by then-Foreign Minister of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, in 2017 the Leibniz-Ring from the Hanover Press Club, which is awarded annually to “outstanding personalities.”[29]
In 2011, Nader was nominated by Peter Maffay for the German Engagement Prize from the Alliance for Charity.[30]
Personal life[edit]
Nader has two daughters from two previous marriages. He told Berliner Morgenpost in 2015 that marriage “no longer worked for him” and that he was dating an unnamed Cuban singer girlfriend, whose music has been published by Nader’s private record label HGN Productions and Verlag.[31]
In June 2017, after dating for a matter of months, Nader (56) proposed to German model Nathalie Scheil (27) and bought a quarter page-sized advertisement in Berlin newspaper Tagesspiel announcing the engagement. The couple split up shortly before their marriage ceremony, which was due to take place in May 2018 in Ibiza, after Scheil was allegedly caught being unfaithful to Nader in his own home in Berlin.[32][33] Despite the marriage’s cancellation, Nader went ahead with the three-day Ibiza celebration without the bride in May 2018 attended by hundreds of guests.[34]
Museums and art[edit]
Nader is involved in social, cultural, religious and humanitarian projects in Germany, providing financing for restoration or creation of museums and art exhibitions.[35]
In 2006, Nader funded the restoration of the Gottingen University Observatory.[36] In 2009, Nader opened the new Science Centre Medical Technology located on Berlin’s Ebertstrasse.[37] The same year, Nader opened a rifle museum in his hometown of Duderstadt.[38]
In autumn 2009, Nader launched the Duderstadt 2020 Masterplan project, which aimed to foster innovative ideas for sustainable urban development. The project also published the book Duderstadt - A City In Motion.[39] In 2011, Duderstadt awarded Nader honorary citizenship for his contribution to the city’s development.[40] The project has since been extended and was renamed Duderstadt in 2030.[41]
In 2011, Nader opened the HGN Art Gallery, his own exhibition space located on Karl Wüstefeld Lane, Duderstadt.[42] The gallery houses public displays of Nader’s private art collection, including some 120 works by German American photographer Helmut Newton.[43]
In 2015, Nader’s father’s house in Duderstadt was opened to the public and converted into a museum that features Otto Bock archives dating back to the company’s founding in 1919.[44]
Sailing[edit]
Nader is the owner of Pink Gin VI, a 54-metre long carbon-made sailing yacht with a 68-metre mast built by his company Baltic Yachts and launched in May 2017.[45] The yacht was reportedly valued at 60 million euros by yachting specialists.[12] In September 2020, Business Insider reported that Nader was trying to sell the yacht as he was “planning a new project with Baltic Yachts that will be green and sustainable.”[46]
Nader also reportedly acquired Pink Shadow, a Damen-built power vessel with a "touch and go helipad"[47] on it which accompanies Pink Gin VI on its travels.[48]
Before Pink Gin VI, Nader owned Pink Gin V, a Baltic 152-foot maxi yacht built in 2006.[49] Nader won the New Zealand Millennium Cup, which took place off the coast of Mallorca, with Pink Gin V in 2007.[50]
In December 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Nader[51] used a criticised tax-saving model[12] for his Pink Gin yacht allowing him to substantially reduce tax liabilities related to the yacht’s purchase by registering it in Malta.[52]
He also has an amphibious vehicle with which he sailed the English Channel crossing on 1 July 2008 in a world record time.[53]
Politics[edit]
In October 2015, Nader accompanied German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a state visit to China, where he presented an exhibition of prostheses to the German and Chinese heads of state and delivered a lecture to attendees on the tradition of his family business.
The same month, Nader, formerly a supporter of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), left the party for the Free Democratic Party (FDP), where he became an economic policy advisor to federal party leader Christian Lindner.[54] Nader told Handelsblatt that Merkel “reprimanded him three times” for switching his party allegiance.[55]
In May and October 2017, he twice donated EUR 100,000 to the FDP and donated another EUR 100,000 to the CDU in September 2017. In 2020, Nader stated in an interview with Handelsblatt that he had switched back to the CDU.[56]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ottobock-Chef Hans Georg Näder: Der König der Prothesen". 2 March 2019.
- ↑ "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". www.zeit.de.
- ↑ ""Forget the money, startups" says chief executive of German unicorn Otto Bock". 10 December 2019.
- ↑ "Ottobock – an overview of the company". www.ottobock.com.
- ↑ Staff, Reuters (June 24, 2017). "EQT buys 20 percent of German artificial limb maker Otto Bock". Reuters – via www.reuters.com.
- ↑ ""Wir stellen das Unternehmen Otto Bock nicht auf den Kopf"". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine.
- ↑ "Näder | professorendozenten | hochschule @ PFH". December 2, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-12-02.
- ↑ "Otto Bock HealthCare" (PDF).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Historie | SüdniedersachsenStiftung".
- ↑ "On board with Baltic Yachts owner Hans Georg Näder". www.boatinternational.com.
- ↑ "Pink Gin VI: On board the world's largest all-carbon sloop sailing yacht". www.boatinternational.com.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Grabitz, Ileana (December 16, 2017). "Steuertricks: Die Millionen-Yacht des deutschen Managers auf Malta". Die Welt – via www.welt.de.
- ↑ "This German billionaire is planning a 120-key hotel by the Brooklyn Navy Yard". 20 August 2018.
- ↑ "German CEO Proposes New Hotel Next to Brooklyn Navy Yard".
- ↑ "Hans Georg Naeder". Forbes.
- ↑ Okt 12, Gepostet von Redaktion; Wirtschaft | 0, 2018 | Finanzen / (October 12, 2018). "Die reichsten Deutschen 2018 - Top 1000 Reichenliste (mm) | ReadSmarter Business- & Lifestyleblog". www.readsmarter.de.
- ↑ "Ottobock Global Foundation".
- ↑ "Näder stellt Buch zum Masterplan vor".
- ↑ "Hans Georg Näder".
- ↑ "Aus Duderstadt2020 wird Duderstadt2030". 5 February 2019.
- ↑ "Gestalter mit Spieltrieb".
- ↑ "Das Tabalugahaus in Duderstadt - ein Projekt unter Freunden".
- ↑ Foundation, Ottobock Global. "Ottobock Global Foundation". Ottobock Global Foundation.
- ↑ "Die Seite wurde nicht gefunden".
- ↑ "NADA´S SUPERVISORY BOARD".
- ↑ "Member of Rohde AG, Norten-Hardenberg".
- ↑ "Inge Sielmann froh über neuen Stiftungsvorstand Fritz Brickwedde". https://www.hna.de. June 3, 2017. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Bundesverdienstkreuz für Duderstädter Otto Bock-Chef Hans Georg Näder". 8 October 2019.
- ↑ "Hohe Auszeichnung: Hans Georg Näder aus Duderstadt erhielt den Leibniz-Ring". 19 December 2017.
- ↑ "Deutscher Engagementpreis 2011: Peter Maffay nominiert Prof. Hans Georg Näder". Archived from the original on 2012-02-03.
- ↑ Zinkler, Diana (July 12, 2015). "Hans Georg Näder - Der Künstler unter den Managern". www.morgenpost.de.
- ↑ "Unternehmer Hans Georg Näder: Milliardär sagt Hochzeit mit Model ab". bild.de. February 7, 2018.
- ↑ Kögel, Annette (15 June 2017). "Unternehmer verkündet Verlobung per Anzeige". Der Tagesspiegel Online.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedauto - ↑ "Konzernlenker Näder als Sammler und Mäzen". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt.
- ↑ Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "Presseinformationen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen". www.uni-goettingen.de.
- ↑ "Zukunftsorientierte Netzwerke - Wirtschaft & Finanzen - Göttinger Tageblatt". themenwelten.goettinger-tageblatt.de.
- ↑ "Schützenmuseum mit Salutschüssen und Segnung eröffnet". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt.
- ↑ "Näder stellt Buch zum Masterplan vor". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt.
- ↑ "Hans Georg Näder – Wiki Göttingen". www.wiki-goettingen.de.
- ↑ "Aus 2020 wird 2030! | Duderstadt2030". February 5, 2019.
- ↑ "Eröffnung der Kunsthalle mit Aktfotografie". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt.
- ↑ "Premiere in der Kunsthalle HGN – faktor".
- ↑ "Anbau ist fertig: Max-Näder-Haus ist Firmenarchiv der Otto-Bock-Gruppe". https://www.hna.de. June 24, 2015. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Größte Segeljacht aus Carbon zu Wasser gelassen". GT - Göttinger Tageblatt.
- ↑ Deutschl, Business Insider; Sep 2020, 17 (September 17, 2020). "Deutscher Prothesen-Milliardär verkauft seine legendäre Segelyacht – so sieht es im Inneren der 45 Millionen Euro teuren "Pink Gin" aus". Business Insider.
- ↑ "PINK SHADOW Yacht Support Vessel to S/Y PINK GIN".
- ↑ "Some like it hot pink". Superyacht Life. November 9, 2020.
- ↑ World, Yachting (May 29, 2009). "A large Pink Gin". Yachting World.
- ↑ World, Yachting (June 19, 2007). "Pink Gin wins New Zealand Millennium Cup". Yachting World.
- ↑ "OTTO MAX HANS GEORG NADER | ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database". offshoreleaks.icij.org.
- ↑ "Paradise Papers firm Appleby considered setting up in Malta". Times of Malta.
- ↑ "Fastest crossing of the English Channel by amphibious vehicle". Guinness World Records.
- ↑ "Ottobock-Chef Näder tritt aus CDU aus".
- ↑ "Ein Unternehmer über jeden Zweifel erhaben".
- ↑ "Interview mit Hans Georg Näder : Ottobock-Eigentümer: "Ich habe Jens Spahn versprochen, dass ich zurück zur CDU wechsle"". www.handelsblatt.com.
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