Klaus-Gerhard Maximilian Zumwinkel (, born December 15, 1943) was
Chief Executive Officer
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(CEO) and Chairman of
Deutsche Post
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between 1990 and 2008. Being under suspicion of
tax fraud
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, he resigned from office on February 15, 2008. He was convicted in January 2009, and given a suspended sentence of two years imprisonment and fined one million euros.
Early life
Zumwinkel was born in
Rheinberg
Rheinberg () is a town in the Wesel (district), district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, approx. north of Moers and south of Wesel.
It comprises the municipal districts of Rheinberg, B ...
, Kreis Moers, Rheinprovinz, which is now in Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen. He attended Gymnasium Adolfinum in Moers and studied business at the
University of Münster
The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
With more than 43,000 students and over ...
. Following graduation in 1969, he attended Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1970. He gained his M.Sc. in 1971,
[ and returned to the University of Münster, where he qualified as Dr. rer. pol. in 1973.
]
Career
Zumwinkel began his career as a consultant with McKinsey
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in 1974, leaving to become CEO of Quelle in 1984 before subsequently joining the management board of Deutsche Post in 1990.
From 2001 to 2004, Zumwinkel has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann Stiftung
The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. As the Bertelsmann Stiftung itself h ...
.
See also
* 2008 German tax affair
The 2008 Liechtenstein tax affair is a series of tax investigations in numerous countries whose governments suspect that some of their citizens may have evaded tax obligations by using banks and trusts in Liechtenstein; the affair broke open with ...
References
1943 births
German chief executives
Living people
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
University of Münster alumni
German people convicted of tax crimes
McKinsey & Company people
Recipients of the Federal Order of Merit who returned their decoration
Lufthansa people
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