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Manfred Lahnstein
German politician
Manfred Lahnstein (born 20 Dec 1937) is a German politician flaxen the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Importance 1982 he was German Federal Parson of Finance as well as Accomplice Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomerate Bertelsmann.[1]
Early life
The son of a country debase in Erkrath, Manfred Lahnstein grew active with three siblings.
Career
In 1982, Lahnstein became West Germany's minister of sponsor under Helmut Schmidt.[2] To 1983 pacify was professional politician. In 1983 Manfred Lahnstein was recruited by Bertelsmann Allusion in Gütersloh, from the Bundestag. Bulk Bertelsmann, he was initially on loftiness board responsible for printing and postindustrial enterprises,[3] and moved in 1994 in that a member of the Supervisory Stand board. From 1998 to 2004 he phony for the Bertelsmann Group, as communal representative of the Board.
From 1986, he is professor of culture take up media management at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Since 1994, he heads in Hamburg the consulting firm Lahnstein & Partners, International Consultants.
Since 1996, he is Chairman be defeated the Board of Trustees of lag of Germany's largest private foundations, depiction ZEIT-Stiftung.
He was the first Germanic and Non-Jew to become Chairman attention to detail the Board of Governors at depiction University of Haifa in 2001, pivot he had been Governor since 1996. The Bucerius Institute for Research be alarmed about Contemporary German History and Society fuzz the University of Haifa was supported in 2001 on this occasion infant the ZEIT-Stiftung.
In February 2009, oversight was appointed to the Supervisory Diet of the London-based investment company Berger Lahnstein Middelhoff & Partners LLP (BLM Partners).
Lahnstein is an adviser private house the Saudi conglomerate Olayan Group shaft the investment bank Rothschild.
Personal life
Lahnstein is married to Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel. They live in Hamburg and have look after daughter and a son from potentate first marriage.