Hilmar Kopper

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Hilmar Kopper (born 13 March 1935) is a German banker and former Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank (1989–1997).^[1][2]

Personal life[]

Kopper was born in Osłonino (Poland) to a Mennonite family, his family was expelled after World War II.^[3] Since 2003, he is married to , the third wife of Willy Brandt. One of his three children of his first marriage is the historian .

Career[]

Kopper was employed as a trainee in Deutsche Bank in 1954 and spent his whole career there. He became a board member in 1977, and after the terrorist murder of Alfred Herrhausen in 1989, he became chairman. He chaired the supervisory board of DaimlerChrysler from 1998 to 2007. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.^[4] He is also a jury member of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award.

Controversy[]

Kopper received widespread public and media attention in 1994, when he used the word "peanuts" to describe a sum of DM 50 million. A jury of linguistic scholars subsequently voted the term as German Un-Word of Year, thus criticizing the widely differing definitions of a non-notable amount of money by bank managers and average people.^[5]

Publications[]

• Die Bank lebt nicht vom Geld allein. Beiträge zu Kultur und Gesellschaft 1994–1997. herausgegeben von Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt, Piper Verlag, München 1997, 144 S., ISBN 3-492-22584-5.

References[]

External links[]

• Hilmar Kopper in the German National Library catalogue